Flowers, Follies, and Other Rites of Spring

flower blob #82

Flowers, Follies, and Other Rites of Spring is a collection of installations, sculpture, and paintings that explore botanical art in the context of the contemporary art world. Curated by Kenise Barnes and featuring artists artists Roberley Bell, Cristina De Gennaro, Amy Gross, Joanne Howard, Rachel Kohn, Margaret Lanzetta, Leigh Taylor Mickelson, Margie Neuhaus, Jill Parisi, and Annie Varnot, the exhibition is a stirring interpretation of the fervor of spring. Exhibition opens March 6 and runs through April 27.

Rockland Center for the Arts | 27 South Greenbush Road | West Nyack, New York

Figuration and its Disconnects

room with a view 2009

UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts presents an exhibition of

contemporary still life and figuration February 17–May 14, 2011

Buffalo, NY –

The exhibition title “Figuration and its Disconnects” is a play on Sigmund

Freud’s canonical book Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), which examines the interplay between society and the individual, whose instinctual desires for aggression and sex threaten to destabilize societal relations.

The twentieth century bore witness to the upheavals of continuous war, the Space Age, the Civil Rights’ and Women’s movements, decolonization, ecological devastation, and the rise of mass media. “Figuration and its Disconnects” explores how we relate to each other, and even inanimate objects, in such a world. The exhibition pairs work from the university’s permanent collection with work by Western New York-based artists work includes drawings,

paintings, and an immersive installation. These artists’ representations of people and things comment on the authority, seduction, miscommunication, powerlessness, happiness, whimsy, and alienation that arguably define our communal existence.

and adventures

This needs a short story,

I am working on a project and in need of inner tubes, (the bright color one I use

From the dollar store.) I had been looking, no luck, and then I remembered I had taken a photo from Rustem Pasa Camii down to the market below and hanging in a stall was a tube.

So I went there yesterday.

The man would not sell the tube I need 3 anyway.

I left walking out of the market a way I had not taken prior

I saw some toys inside what I thought was a Han

I walked in

It was a former hamam

So how wonderful I can show you what the ceiling looks like, as you cannot take a photo in the bath…

In the bath you are laying on the warm marble below the ceiling it is like looking to the sky.

and yes in the bath in the mist in is more special.

And I purchase 3 blue neon made in china inner tubes…

the weeks are running together

My days are filled with some of those everyday things in life

As well as teaching and the surprise adventure.

The tulips are still in bloom, quiet a long season

And lovely.

These are at the square near to the spice market in front of Yeni Camii

These guys I bump into a lot waiting for the bus, sadly I have also seen the results, massacred tress.

Tea is always better on the other side of the fence, having tea with a faculty at Mimar Sinan art school . Prime real estate right on the Bosphorus

Getting milk with a friend, her new baby drinks only goat’s milk.

When she asked if I wanted to come along I did not think I would actually confront a goat in Istanbul…

gule gule bursa

Oh yes the reason I came to Bursa, to speak at the architecture university

The trip back to Istanbul on the ferry, my flowers, a gift from the students,

Saying good-bye to Bursa.

Tractors

For jimbo and john

You would love it.

This man rolled the tractor down hill to start

Backed up, picked up his bucket then went back down the hill.

Innovation at its best.

Cumalikzik more

Mt Uludag in the distance famous for skiing

Ladies from a village near Ankara( about 4 hr away) on a “field trip” sponsored by the government

They seem to be checking out the competition in the lace market.

And yes the restaurant where I had 3 glasses of raspberry juice