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Many thanks to Dennis Adrian, who donated one of my drawings to the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago. Dennis is an author, critic and one of my former teachers. Here is a link to one of his books. He specializes particularly in .H.C. Westermann.
The class I took from him was on Romanticism and Symbolism.
Ray Yoshida was also one of my teachers. Here is what Ray said in an article marking a retrospective, 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."
Special thanks to James S. Hegarty (my nephew) for his java script on my home page which allows viewers to see a different painting each day. He is an artist/programmer attending Stanford University. Please check out his site.
My niece, Anna Hegarty, is studying art at Washington University in St. Louis. Please check out her portfolio.
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Here's Soleil. He's always smiling. |
This is my brother James Hegarty's official Naereaon site. Naereaon is a non-violent adventure computer game. There are free episodes available on his site as well as full versions for sale.
Here's my brother's site with all of his music: Noise Reduction Society.
Here is artist and colleague Tom Gilbertson's site.
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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Here's Davey with my shyest cat, Katie. |
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.
This is a work in progress...and just a few of my favorites....
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
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Bleuet is the newest member of the family. He is a sweet little guy with a big sense of humor. |
Art Institute of Chicago, museum and school
Best place to buy orchids (in the continental US):
All of my Persian cats are from shelters. Every one except Pink came to me through Helping Persians, a non-profit based in Beverly Hills, California. I also recommend looking on Pet Harbor where shelters post current available or found animals, or Petfinder.com, where rescues list available pets. I found Pink through Petfinder.com - she was at the Ivine County shelter.
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