Category Archives: New Art Work
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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Jon Gardella’s new book
Hey all of you out there in the blogosphere, an early post. I got a surprise from our favorite other artist Jon Gardella, and it was wonderful. They are doing a new book on Jon’s work. Below is the email … Continue reading
Posted in Groningen, Jon Gardella, Netherlands, New Art Project, New Art Work, Rodin, School of Rodin, sculpture
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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’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
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
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
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
MASUD OLUFANI – On Race, Memory and Rememberance
POETICS OF THE DISEMBODIED at MOCA GA Masud Olufani is a gifted contemporary artist. He is a black, tall, and large man. His work on race is provocative on so many levels it is difficult to explain it. As a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Exhibition, Art Show, installation art, Masud Olufani, MOC GA, New Art Work, Photography, Race, sculpture, Uncategorized, United States
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Work In Progress
“The Visible Becoming Invisible,” new installation I have been working on a new installation since the second week in January. I go to a construction every Friday and photograph it from the same vantage point. I have always been fascinated … Continue reading
Thinking About Change
Seismic Change in Britain this week: We all witnessed a seismic shift in the political spectrum this week and, it is hard to say whether this change was a reaction or a revolution. Probably both. As we have talked about … Continue reading
Piece for the Stephen F Austin State University Auction
Voting Results Rule! Overwhelmingly the vote, from Facebook, Linked-In and my personal email was to continue on with the Flag piece. So here it is: A Lone Star 4th of July:
FABRIC! FABRIC! FABRIC DESIGN!
J. Leone Website: www.jleone.com Yes, I actually was working on the fabric design, despite the fact that I have not had time to update my website with Fabric Design. I am going to use this fabric that I designed … Continue reading
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The Texas National Catalogue came out and I am furious
Last week’s poll: By a landslide the vote was to make the flag work out so that the University would make a sale. The comments that people sent to me or posted were helpful. At the forefront was the objective, … Continue reading
In Serious Trouble – Cast Your Vote! Vote here or on Facebook or Linked-in or email me leonejean@aol.com
Which piece of art do you think will sell: When I was down at the Texas National, the Art Department at Stephen F. Austin State University asked me if I would be willing to make and donate a piece of … Continue reading
Roswell Clay Collective
J. Leone website: www.jleone.com Surprising the things one can find in one’s backyard! I have lived across the highway from the Art Center West for almost 2 1/2 years. I hike in the park behind the center. I drive by … Continue reading
THE TEXAS NATIONAL, NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS
J. Leone website: http://www.jleone.com How to Run a Juried Show: The people down at Stephen F. Austin State University, really know how to do a juried show. It’s more akin to a happening than a single opening. If you are … Continue reading
ART THAT SHOULD NOT BE IMPROVED UPON
Is Nothing Sacred? A lot of art comes out of ritualized things: religion, holidays, repeating national events, etc. Last weekend, we had the religious holiday of Easter, but not wholly a religious holiday because for most children and some adults, … Continue reading
THE TEXAS NATIONAL
Twilight Panes is going to The Texas National The fabulous Twilight Panes will be making its public debut at The Texas National. THE TEXAS NATIONAL: April 9 thru June 11, 2016 OPENING NIGHT: Saturday April 9, 2016 TIME: … Continue reading
LATE! LATE! LATE! I HATE LATE!
You know the old saying: “We make plans and the Gods laugh.” I had the blog ready for Sunday’s post but I held it up because I was awaiting news of a show and I thought I would put that … Continue reading
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NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHED THIS MORNING! New work update.
It has been a stressful month. My new website launched this morning. Everything is working wonderfully except the three sections with video. My web hosting company is busy engineering the back end for the video. They are saying that they … Continue reading
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Likes and Dislikes: Surprises based on gender
CHANGED IN BLOG POSTING: I AM CHANGING THE BLOG TO POST ONCE A MONTH RATHER THAN ONCE A WEEK – I HAVE TO MANY COMMITMENTS TO DO JUSTICE TO THE BLOG AND THE ART COMMITMENTS. So this will be the … Continue reading
Parallel Universes
The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects Right up there with my theories about Time are my theories about inanimate objects. I first noticed this phenomena with my shoes. I would leave them in one place and then hours or days … Continue reading
What is Art and who decides?
“Art has no use, if it has a use it’s not art because it’s compromised.” Okay today’s post should annoy a lot of people, which is always good. I found the above quote, I believe in Art News, although I … Continue reading
Artists and Religion
Something to Think About: The oldest works of art discovered so far are in caves, Spain and France and southeast Asia. These are dated some 40,000 years ago which is the Paleolithic era. The thing that is so interesting … Continue reading
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This and That
This: Being terrorized by my own work: Some of you remember this piece, the photo is a section of “Man’s Abandonment of God/God’s Abandonment of Man”, the installation JP MorganChase and the Northern Manhattan Alliance gave me completion funds for, … Continue reading
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Do Photographs change with a change in reality?
Do you see a different thing in a photograph because something has happened and you have changed or do events that occur after the photograph was taken change the photograph in some space time dimension that we have yet to … Continue reading
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Shades and Panes
Shades of Relatives: The summer of 2014 I spent up in Massachusetts on the coast. I brought along my fisheye camera. Most of my relatives still live in Mass so as a fun project I started taking fisheye shots of … Continue reading
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New Work and Found Object Art
Found Object Art: Marcel Duchamp’s urinal is probably the most famous example of found object art. It is hard to imagine today the amount of controversy this single piece generated in it’s time. Duchamp was making the point that anything … Continue reading
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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 →