What’s New
It has been a long time between posts. Here is what’s new.
Mythic Art was at the Minds Eye Gallery in Campbell, California. A link below has information on the Press Release:
http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200605/1148419266.html
The PCA Conference on Mythology in Contemporary Culture has released more information. I will be speaking on the 6th sub-panel Mythology and Technology. My talk will be entitled Myth vs. the Machine. It will be Easter weekend on Friday April 6th, 2007. Between 8 and 9:30 A.M.
An essay on Mythic Art is online at:
http://www.toursandtales.com/onlinestories/Alber-Dave-Power-of-Mythic-Art.htm
The Pacific Prints at Pacific Art League, 13th Biennial exhibition was successful. A lot of people visited the gallery in downtown Palo Alto. At the opening, in the loft upstairs I had the opportunity to answer a few questions about the processes of printing, demonstrating some of the techniques within my print Heroic Potentiality. The print is an example of three intaglio techniques: engraving, dry point, and mezzotint. The print is featured in the book Myth & Medium, where I describe the creative process as follows:
I was sitting on my front porch working on a small plaster sculpture that I felt expressed something of the eternal value of heroism (what Campbell described as the primary mythological enigma in his The Hero with a Thousand Faces). The experience of carving promted me to write, “The blocky robust figure, his motion a white S-curve, face featureless, body hiding within plaster. The shape is one of infinite possibilities. An open life. A story without end. There is a forward stride. It speaks of the heroic, the confidence of knowledge and action. Life is like this. It’s a pattern, a possibility, a potentiality, and it’s hiding within the chiseled plaster.” That was the inspiration for this series of prints.
That’s all for now.
When I blog next I’ll tell you about seeing Master Printmaker Alan May examining my print The Minotaur. He turned around and addressed a circle of art collectors. What he had to say was very interesting.
Mythic Art was at the Minds Eye Gallery in Campbell, California. A link below has information on the Press Release:
http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200605/1148419266.html
The PCA Conference on Mythology in Contemporary Culture has released more information. I will be speaking on the 6th sub-panel Mythology and Technology. My talk will be entitled Myth vs. the Machine. It will be Easter weekend on Friday April 6th, 2007. Between 8 and 9:30 A.M.
An essay on Mythic Art is online at:
http://www.toursandtales.com/onlinestories/Alber-Dave-Power-of-Mythic-Art.htm
The Pacific Prints at Pacific Art League, 13th Biennial exhibition was successful. A lot of people visited the gallery in downtown Palo Alto. At the opening, in the loft upstairs I had the opportunity to answer a few questions about the processes of printing, demonstrating some of the techniques within my print Heroic Potentiality. The print is an example of three intaglio techniques: engraving, dry point, and mezzotint. The print is featured in the book Myth & Medium, where I describe the creative process as follows:
I was sitting on my front porch working on a small plaster sculpture that I felt expressed something of the eternal value of heroism (what Campbell described as the primary mythological enigma in his The Hero with a Thousand Faces). The experience of carving promted me to write, “The blocky robust figure, his motion a white S-curve, face featureless, body hiding within plaster. The shape is one of infinite possibilities. An open life. A story without end. There is a forward stride. It speaks of the heroic, the confidence of knowledge and action. Life is like this. It’s a pattern, a possibility, a potentiality, and it’s hiding within the chiseled plaster.” That was the inspiration for this series of prints.
That’s all for now.
When I blog next I’ll tell you about seeing Master Printmaker Alan May examining my print The Minotaur. He turned around and addressed a circle of art collectors. What he had to say was very interesting.
Labels: 13th biennial exhibition, dry point, engraving, heroic potentiality, mezzotint, minds eye gallery, pacific art league, pacific prints
