Sam hugs are the best!
(Thank you Monica for capturing this special moment.)
SAMANTHA FIELDS - New Work on view at the C.O.L.A. 2013 Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery through July 7, 2013
If you can’t make it there in person check out more images and information on our site HERE
Samantha Fields. What can I say? An inspiration. A warrior. A painter.
These paintings are large and stunningly beautiful and absolutely MUST be seen in person. Do yourself a favor and go to LAMAG at Barnsdall Art Park before they come down.
Sarah Polley, the director of the new documentary Stories We Tell, tells Terry Gross about including footage of retakes in the film:
I think that, for me, it was really important to not leave the construction of the film out because it’s a film about storytelling and how we tell stories and why we tell stories. I thought it was really important to include the process of making this film itself in the film and some of that involves some rather unflattering and ruthless moments for me like directing my dad when he’s … pouring his heart out, basically. And, you know, you do get into this mode, I think, when you’re telling a story — or certainly when you’re making a film — where you can kind of lose your sense or your barometer for what’s human or humane and certainly I think there are a few moments in the film where I’m directing my dad where I don’t come off that well, but I certainly come off as somebody who’s trying to tell a story above all else.
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I admire Sarah Polley for her ability to focus on the Art of storytelling and her search for truth. Even when it is most painful.
Drawing a Day 106-115
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Eric Fischl. His new memoir “Bad Boy,” co-written with Michael Stone, has just been published by Crown. In the book, Fischl talks about growing up on Long Island, his mother’s alcoholism and suicide, his discovery of art, his meteoric rise in the New York art world during the cocaine-fueled 1980s, how he was motivated to become sober and how his travels and life experiences have fueled his work in the decades since.
The first painting is Fischl’s 2000 The Bed, The Chair, Jet Lag, one of his best paintings of the 2000s.On this week’s MAN Podcast, Fischl and host Tyler Green discuss this painting, its light, that marvelous chair and its relationship to Andre Derain’s great 1907 Bathers at the Museum of Modern Art.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.
![“Photographer Peter Hoffman traveled along the Fox River in Illinois, photographing the river’s meandering surface through rural and suburban areas. Before he developed the film, Hoffman drowned the negatives in gasoline and then set them on fire, throwing water to halt the process just before the film was completely destroyed. Hoffman uses fossil fuels to disturb his film in order to reflect the very real environmental disturbances caused in the pursuit of oil.” [source]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/bd92c7b355f2452c040c379ccf3c6bcb/tumblr_mmsm08lk6C1qig98go1_500.jpg)
I spent Mother’s Day at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with my husband and daughters. There was really so much to see: Kubrick, Matisse, Heizer, etc. But one of the most quietly stunning was the exhibit of Japanese prints by the master Hokusai.
There was a beautiful selection of the Mt. Fuji series, including the Great Wave, early drawings and prints, and an immaculate full collection of Hokusai’s very rare waterfall series.
I only wish there were a catalogue to accompany this lovely exhibit.
Also: PLUME!
