TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Hilma af Klint at MOMA


Lauren Panepinto

I know we tend to be realists here (at least visually) and we don't talk about lot about abstract art. Dare I say many of us have a bit of a chip on our shoulders about Abstract Art as a movement, and I'll be the first to agree that a lot of it is all concept, no craft, and that leaves me cold. However, that doesn't mean that all abstract art or artists working in…

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YESTERDAY’S POST


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Aortas in a Chair – Aortas They Don’t Care


John Jude Palencar

September 22, 2025 - For artists, concepts present themselves in unexpected ways. Why or how the artist responds to them is sometimes just as much of a mystery to the artist as it is to the artist’s audience. Freudian reasons aside, there are many avenues for inspiration & pathways to creative new lands. My wife had this small decorative chair she no longer wanted. It’s one of those objects that you say to yourself, “why would someone make this?”. That’s probably the reason why she wanted to throw it out. It’s a small wooden chair with a hole in the seat for a miniature pot in which to place a plastic flower or dried botanticals. It fits on a bookshelf. Thoughtlessly I placed some dead stalks from our landscaping plantings in the seat of this diminutive chair…. that triggered…

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