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Here's an orchid that I'm growing at home. |
This is a work in progress....
Museum picks:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, museum and school
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
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I'm growing this cattleya in my studio. Here it is pictured with Storm Driver on the easel. |
Contemporary artists who have influenced me:
Yvonne Jacquette (Artcyclopedia listing)
Yvonne Jacquette (Stewart & Stewart gallery)
Yvonne Jacquette is an artist enamored with the aerial view. All works begin with direct studies made with pastel on paper from jet airplanes, city high-rises, or from rented single-engine planes. Critic Carter Ratcliff observes, "She offers segments of unbounded territories. At this stage, light looks like evidence of form's fluidity." In her nocturnes, point of view transforms the image (whether highway, nuclear plant, or city building) into patterns of luminosity.
This series of animated films are made from black and white charcoal drawings that the artist calls "drawings for projection." Born to a white, South African family in 1955, William Kentridge's nontraditional education included studies in drawing and theater as a teenager, and later, philosophy and politics in college. These aspects of the artist's background come together in his films, resulting in dramatic and disturbing commentaries on South Africa's tragic history of apartheid.
In creating films, Kentridge adds to or erases sections of drawings as he shoots each frame of the film. The process of memory, fading or reemerging as time passes, is reflected in the faint, ghost-like erasures still visible as the film unfolds. Kentridge's films contrast with conventional cell animation whose seamlessness de-emphasizes the fact that it is actually a succession of hand-drawn images. The sketchy style of Kentridge's drawings is both evidence of the artist's "hand" as well as an expression of the emotional tension inherent in the subject matter.
Look Kentridge up in the highbeam.com library here.
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This is an ink drawing of a Chinese junk-style ship that I did for Naereaon, a non-violent 3D animated adventure computer game set for release in early 2005. Drawings will be scanned and placed into the animation to show players places they can't go, create atmosphere and expand the depth of the narrative. |
Ray Yoshida (one of my teachers). This is his site.
Read here about one of Ray's retrospectives, this one in Honolulu.
It's a rare occasion when a Hawaii-born artist can be credited with helping to develop a nationally recognized art movement.
For the first time in Hawaii, the Contemporary Museum honors the achievements of Ray Yoshida, with an exhibition entitled, "Ray Yoshida -- A Retrospective (1968-1998).
Yoshida and his students/colleagues, including Roger Brown, Jim Nutt and Ed Paschke, developed a style of figuration which became known as the Chicago School or the Chicago Imagists.
Born in 1930 in Kapaa, Kauai, Yoshida began making collages from cut-out details from comic books in the late 1960s. His paintings from the last three decades reflect the influence of this early source in their stylized, bold imagery involving mysterious fantasy landscapes that blend representation with abstraction.
Said Yoshida, "I don't think painting that only gives answers (i.e. Norman Rockwell) is very interesting, exciting.
"I like works that have some answers but also provide questions to the viewer."
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This is a new painting called Flashback. It is oil on linen and approximately 48 by 30 inches. |
For the past four decades, Bruce Conner's work has defied easy categorization. Last seen at the Walker as part of the exhibition Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, he is perhaps best known for his landmark assemblages and kinetic, short films of the 1950s and 1960s. But Conner has also done extraordinary work in painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, printmaking, and photography. Today Conner is recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. 2000 BC: THE BRUCE CONNER STORY PART II presents some 150 works in a broad range of media to provide a much-needed introduction to the variety of work by this prolific artist. However, it is not a retrospective. As the exhibition title suggests, there are many other parts to the Bruce Conner story, as yet untold. This one places special emphasis on his filmmaking and his exploration of the physical, metaphorical, and metaphysical properties of light and dark.
Check out my family's links:
My brother's (James Hegarty) official Naereaon site.
My nephew's site, although he is currently too busy to develop it. Special thanks to James S. Hegarty for his java script on my home page which allows viewers to see a different painting each day.
Here's my brother's site with all of his other projects: Noise Reduction Society.
Science links:
NASA's astronomy picture of the day gallery
PBS's NOVA, The elegant universe (string theory)
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This is a painting that I called Aloha Chevy. It is inspired by the pattern from a 19th century Japanese ginger jar in my collection and the photo I took of a rental car. It is oil on linen and approximately 28 by 30 inches. |
Musicians:
Best place to buy orchids (in the continental US):
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