The show opened on Sunday at Brooklyn Workshop Gallery: Entre Chien et Loup, works by Pam Farrell and Deborah Barlow. The exhibit runs through June 25. Joins us for the closing celebration—with music—on Saturday, June 24. More info here.
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The Certain and the Uncertain
My granddaughter Siena, exploring all the available painting surfaces The assault on reason and human values that is ongoing in the political landscape isn’t confined to the ideological arena. When life’s bandwidth gets hijacked daily, resource allocation happens by default (especially for those of us over 50 who have to husband our energy.) As a […]
Entre Chien et Loup, at Brooklyn Workshop Gallery
Entre Chien et Loup is the latest exhibit of my work at the Brooklyn Workshop Gallery. I am very pleased to be able to create this show with a friend and an artist I admire, Pam Farrell. Pam and I have wanted to exhibit our work together for a long time. The evocative French phrase […]
Incipient Cosmos
Monnara, from a new series July Mountain We live in a constellation Of patches and of pitches, Not in a single world, In things said well in music, On the piano and in speech, As in the page of poetry- Thinkers without final thoughts In an always incipient cosmos. The way, when we climb a […]
The Grid of One
George W. S. Trow (1943-2006) (Photo: Lynn Davis/Pantheon Books) George Trow‘s essay, Within the Context of No Context, occupied the entire issue of The New Yorker in November of 1980. It is a timeless piece of writing, as is the introduction he wrote for the book version several years later, Collapsing Dominant. I reread both […]
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Robinson Redux
In Milan, down a side street I first became acquainted with architect and philosopher Sarah Robinson in 2012 when I came across her book Nesting at one of my favorite bookstores in San Francisco. After falling under the spell of Juhani Pallasmaa‘s extraordinary book, The Eyes of the Skin, I sensed immediately that Robinson was […]
The Personal and the Political
From Woman in the Dunes (Photo: Cinescope) We are living through one of those eras when the political spills profusely into the personal. Up to our hips in toxic Trump floodwaters, the landscape of daily life has been transformed. I keep thinking of Hiroshi Teshigahara‘s 1964 iconic film, Woman in the Dunes, and its interminable […]
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Clew Takes on A Life of Its Own
Photo: Stacey Durand Clew opened at the Lamont Gallery on January 20. Since that time the gallery has hosted a variety of events including meditations, dance performances, theatrical readings, beadmaking workshops, and a class of curious kindergarteners. It was our collective intention (Todd Hearon, Jung Mi Lee, Lauren O’Neal, Jon Sakata and me) to bring […]
The We That is Me
Studio window, South Boston When I was growing up, neuroscience believed that the human brain develops during a critical period in early childhood and then remains relatively unchanged. The scientific consensus has now changed. Neuroplasticity is the new norm, the belief that human brains continue to form and change throughout the course of a life. […]
Getting a Clew: Review in Artscope Magazine
Note: The following review, reproduced here by permission, appeared in Artscope Magazine. Thank you to Linda Chestney for connecting with our vision and then bringing it so evocatively into words. The show is at the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, 11 Tan Lane, Exeter New Hampshire. It runs through April 15. Deborah Barlow, Vapeerine […]