The landscape of our lives right now—which includes the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and the intellectual—feels increasingly less like a scape of solidity and more like a fluid, undetermined and still evolving one. But whenever terrain goes through a transition, something new shows up, invariably. As we become seasoned pandemicists (albeit reluctantly,) we are learning […]
Author: deborahbarlow
A Tempest for These Times
Ah Prospero. You are my favorite character in all of Shakespeare! The masterful conjurings, the lonely exile, the fierce revenge still raging after twelve years away from the lost Dukedom of Milan, the Other embodied in ethereality and earthiness, the willingness in the end to forgive and forego—there are so many parts of his story […]
Indelibles
Sunset over Picacho, by Scout Dunbar The latest Pell Lucy online exhibit can now be viewed on Artsy: Indelibles. The show features work by the following artists: Tracey Adams, Deborah Barlow, Kay Canavino, Mi-Jin Chun, Silva DeMarchi, Scout Dunbar, Tina Feingold, Lea Feinstein, Karen Fitzgerald, Lynette Haggard, Joseph Hayes, Joanne Lefrak, Eve Leonard, Denise Manseau, […]
Next, and then Next
The light in San Francisco in January can be incomprehensibly warm and golden. My winter-lashed New England self was basking in its late afternoon glow as I sat with a friend in a lush Marina garden. Bliss. Then, in an instant, my eyesight went skiwampus. That was 2018. After a lot of medical head scratching, […]
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Architecture is a Verb
Some proclivities are sui generis, perennially present as a life unfolds. That is the sense I get when George Saunders expresses the discomfort he still feels about his childhood failure to befriend a lonely girl in his neighborhood. For Saunders, gifted author and teacher, kindness and humility are built in. I have a primordial proclivity […]
Intimately Enthralled
Sarah Slavick, Inception 3 (This work is included in the Pell Lucy exhibit, Intimately Enthralled) The latest online exhibition of Pell Lucy artists is now available on Artsy.net: Intimately Enthralled. This collection includes works by several new members of Pell Lucy–Tracey Adams, Silvia De Marchi, Scout Dunbar, Tracey Maroni, Laura Perry and Priya Vadhyar. The […]
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Art is an Ecosystem
Star Guide, by Denise Manseau. This woodblock print was purchased by Alexis Carey Lawrence at the last Fair Share Art Auction in October 2020. As we will be relying upon our scientists, in this darkest dream, so too will we be relying on our artists: now, as well as afterward. There is a great need […]
A Generosity of Spirit
Wayfinder–In and Through (30), by Matthew Burrows. Ink on homemade paper This year of isolation and social distanced living—with more still to come—has brought so much discussion about the meaning of community and belonging. This difficult year has felt so personal, like watching the upholstery of your favorite chair ripped open to expose the armature […]
Signs of Work: A New Pell Lucy Exhibit
Work table in my studio (Photo: Martine Bisangi) A new online exhibition, Signs of Work, is now available on Artsy.net. Featuring work by Pell Lucy artists,* the exhibit is on view through March 4, 2021. The title of the show was inspired by words from with the late (and great) artist Tom Nozkowski in speaking […]
Constellating a Future
Above: Microscape Series (River Poem #2) by Taney Roniger. . At the beginning of the year I quoted from Rebecca Solnit’s recent book, Whose Story Is This? We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures…Though there are individual voices and people […]