Nevertheless She Persisted, recycled denim and clothing labels By Michèle Fandel Bonner . . Oceans I have a feeling that my boathas struck, down there in the depths,against a great thing. And nothinghappens! Nothing…Silence…Waves… –Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,and are we standing now, […]
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Safekeeping the Not Knowing: New Pell Lucy Exhibit
Untitled, Versailles 06, photograph by Elizabeth Mead . As 2022 begins, Pell Lucy enters its third year as a collective. The latest exhibit, Safekeeping the Not Knowing, is available for viewing on Artsy.net and features works from 31 of our members. The curatorial statement below blends our concerns for art making and art viewing during […]
That Which Persists
Golawon. Acrylic, oil, Galkyd, powdered pigments, substrates minerals on canvas, 54″ x 72″. . “Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.” –Lucien Freud . Writers and artists actually talk about this concept a lot although they typically employ different terminology: themes, tropes, proclivities, inclinations, gestures. The fact is that none of us create something […]
Wildly Protopian
On the set of Wild, at American Repertory Theater (Photo: Maggie Hall-Nile Scott Studios) Most of the thinkers I follow closely are actively exploring alternative models, ones that can impact our ability to continue as a species on this planet. That search for a change is summed up by Daniel Schmachtenberger: Rather than just iterative […]
More Than: New Pell Lucy Exhibit
Microcosm XXXVII, by Sandra Lerner, part of the latest Pell Lucy exhibit, More Than. The latest exhibit from Pell Lucy, More Than, considers the role art and art making have on constellating our collective future. Visual language is so much more than line, shape, color, texture, size, space. There is more there than meets the […]
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Fair Share Art
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 […]
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 […]