Category Archives: Art scene
Infinity Mirrors: Yayoi Kusama Rooms 6 and 7
Dots Obsession-Love Transformed into Dots 2007, installed 2018 After viewing room 5, the pumpkin room that I could not photograph because of some previous fool, you move down a corridor and then make a turn into room 6 which brings … Continue reading
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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors Room 2
Yayoi started working in earnest with the dot and net motifs when she came to New York City in 1957. Her career really took off and she began doing her soft sculptures (see below), installation work and staged performance based … Continue reading
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The Last of The Gardens: The Unicorn and the Fabulous Caravan
We have reached the last installment of the Botanical Gardens for this year. I did get a message about what the gardens look like in the winter and to be honest, I don’t have a clue. It has never … Continue reading
The Atlanta Botanical Gardens – THE DRAGON Part Trois
I got a tremendous amount of email this past week asking if I could show more photos of each installation and the detail of each piece. Naturally I am happy to comply so we will still have to cover next … Continue reading
Imaginary Worlds 2; Fire and Ice; Jon Gardella Workshop; The Queen of Soul
Lots to cover in the blog today. First there is the closing of my friend’s show Michael Dominick’s show. I should have posted this a few weeks ago. I have known Michael for a long time, we had the same … Continue reading
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The Atlanta Botanical Gardens – Imaginary Worlds
This is the entrance hall to the gardens where one buys tickets, can go to the rest rooms and take a rest in air conditioning. I love these metal leaves. I could not see where there was a sign for … Continue reading
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Jon Gardella – The last of the photos
So we are at the end of our photos from out private tour of Jon Gardella’s studio and his work. Jon has promised to keep us apprised of new works and new shows. Look carefully at this piece. It has … Continue reading
Jon Gardella’s town in the Netherlands and his studio
Garnered, Netherlands I had to find where Jon was located, no small feat. So if you look at the map, up at the top you will see a blue line north of Groningen which is the major town near where … Continue reading
Jon Gardella, Sculpture Extraordinaire, Part Deux
Explanations and corrections: Because of the time difference between the US and the Netherlands, I did not get Jon’s email until after I had posted the blog. He sent me a lot of information, and last week’s blog on Jon … Continue reading
Jon Gardella Sculpture Extraordinaire!
I have known Jon Gardella, all my life, we grew up across the street from each other and his younger sister, Josie, is my first oldest friend, not in age but in the number of years we have known each … Continue reading
Gone to Scotland – Back from Scotland
Heavy Flames Rock Band http://www.maharajablues.com Maharaja Blues DA PLANE: So on the plane on the way over, my seat mate was the fabulous Jonathan Browning! He plays in two bands, Heave Flames which is a rock band and Maharaja Blues … Continue reading
Dazzle, Razzle and Zazzle
zazzle.com/J_leone_designs Despite all the disasters, I still worked everyday. I spent a lot of time developing designs, from my photographs for fabric design. Getting a design to repeat across yards and yards of fabric is NO EASY THING. I now … Continue reading
Chihuly Part Deux
By popular demand more of the Dale Chihuly Installations: So many people emailed me about the Chihuly Exhibit that I felt I had to do the second part this week so here are the rest of the installations: I loved … Continue reading
Scale, Size and Perceptual filters
I stumbled onto this book, Visual Intelligence, by Amy E. Herman, while at the library last week. It’s a new book and really interesting in the area of what people actually see. This is of course what my own art … Continue reading
Dale Chihuly at the Atlanta Botantical Gardens
http://www.jleone.com Remember, clicking on any photograph will open the photograph in a larger window. In 2004, Dale Chihuly did a set of installations for the Atlantic Botanical Garden. Over the last 12 years, Chihuly has advanced his site specific glass … Continue reading
Glass as an Art Form – The Corning Museum of Glass
On a beautiful autumn day in 2009, one of my college pals and I embarked on a road trip up to Lockport, NY, to see our other college pal open an exhibit of her work. We took the scenic route … Continue reading
artdaily.com
http://www.jleone.com Great art website: PARIS.- The exhibition “Magritte: La trahison des images” offers a completely new approach to the work of the Belgian artist René Magritte. Featuring both well-known masterpieces and other less familiar works, all drawn from leading public … Continue reading
The Visible Becoming Invisible Part Deux
Beginning note, if you click on the image it will open in a separate window at a larger size. Where we started: When I have the wall mural worked out, the first frames will started in January, but this is … Continue reading
The Visible Becoming Invisible
This was the last panorama on the site, that you all saw, dated March 18. One of the issues I am having is how to incorporate into the time-lapse mural, the details of the project. In the far right back … Continue reading
Comments from past blogs
A lot of times people send me comments about the past week’s blog. Also, for some reason I can’t figure out, but I will, the comments used to show below the post. WordPress has changed the back-end of blog site, … Continue reading
Summertime Reading About Art
BEACH READING: One Fiction, One Non-Fiction There is an incredible amount of literature about Art. Some fiction, some non-fiction. Some of it is good, some of it is bad. The two books I am going to recommend are both very … Continue reading
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MASUD OLUFANI: Closing Remarks on his exhibition
Website: www.jleone.com On Race, Memory and Rememberance: Masud started his remarks by having his sister, Shala Whitehead, dressed in a long white sheath, standing on a wood block in front of one of his videos, sing a negro spiritual hymn.(She has … Continue reading →