Upcoming Exhibit: Opening January 26th

"Connections"
Presented by the Canoga Park Youth Art Center Gallery

Artists Featured:

Yvonne Beatty
Linda L. Carlson
Joanell Connolly
Katherine Kean
Lina Kogan
Cindy Rinne

January 26th - March 1st, 2008

Reception: Saturday, January 26th
2:00pm-5:00pm

Artist Talk: Saturday March 1st, 2008
1:00pm-3:00pm

Gallery Hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10:00am-4:00pm
(818) 346-7099

Canoga Park Youth Art Center
7222 Remmet Avenue
Canoga Park, CA 91303

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Lingering

Here's a new painting. It's a small oil, 6 x 8" and is
available at TAG Gallery.

Artist Statement

I paint landscapes that explore margins of atmosphere and form and the interplay between imaginary and real places.

Like the point between dream and waking, subtle edges of earth and water, tree and sky, dissolve and reappear, caught at that moment when boundaries are undetermined and reality is malleable.

Beginning with underpainting, I modulate the intensity of light that spreads from the center of the canvas. Lines and shapes are defined and then partially obscured. Layer is painted over layer, resulting in unexpected gradations and tones. Elusive shapes are muted by fog or shadow.
Imagination’s alchemy transforms the recognizable into delicately nuanced layers of color and tone, to gently invoke mystery, sensation, and mood.

Areté

A Youtube presentation of the thinkarete.com manifesto accompanied by the Zero 7 remix of "Crosses" by José González from the album The Garden.

New Work, Monterey Cypress Trees

Point Lobos Path With Steps © 2012 Katherine Kean
oil on linen  18 x 14 in.

This is a new oil in a series inspired by the coastal path through Monterey Cypress Trees at Point Lobos, California. Some earlier studies that this developed from can be found here.

Helsinki Complaints Choir

Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. Music composed by Esko Grundström.



This was fun and it's interesting to see how the compaints in Helsinki compare with our own. There are also complaints choirs for Birmingham, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, and Poikkilaakso. There's a website just for Complaint Choirs of the World and there you can vote for your favorite one.

More Cover Art: Planet Lightworker

My painting, "Autumn's Veil" is the featured artwork on the cover of Planet Lightworker this month. Planet Lightworker is an online magazine that offers cutting edge spiritual articles.