next opening at Bright Rain Gallery

here's our next artist
jessica l kennedy
http://www.jessicalkennedy.com/
bright rain gallery august 1 08

Today We Will Use the Pink Pyramid

42"X24" oil on canvas stretched over panel. (heavy as hell)

here is a question: how much do you all steal? there's the picasso quote..."bad artists copy, good artists steal." what do you think the difference is? do i steal too much? do you think you might?
what are some source materials you use to make any particular painting?

here are some things i feel like i "stole" to make this painting:

donald judd
david schnell
mythraic cults
wallpaper
matthais weischer

and tons of google image pictures that i did not take myself....like stuff of houses, clouds, grass
and carpeting.

maybe this would make some interesting post ideas. y'all need to post more stuff so's we can
keep this goin'. and as always...be honest as hell with me. i can take it...i swear. i would love it if someone tore my shit apart.


thank you and have a good weekend

bradner

Tim

Washington Stylishly Crossing Over, 2008
two paper panels: top=30.25"x27.5" bottom=30.25"x37.5
mixed

note: black areas on left edge of each panel are actually cut out

This is the latest painting in my presidents/contemporary political figures meets soccer players series...

Feels finished but never sure...the series is a meditation/study of Larry Rivers' painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware...and a study he did of heads of Washington...

Intended to be tacked/pinned to wall. Left edges even. The images are slightly deceptive. The proportions are slightly off. (See actual dimensions) For looks at other paintings in this series jump to: www.theatticwhichisdesire.blogspot.com

Critical feedback welcomed.

Space Room 48"X24" Oil/Acrylic on Canvas stretched over panel

So i guess what this series of painting is about, and probably what painting is about for me, is wandering, adventure, being lost. I always have this sinking feeling in the back of my mind or gut that I'm lost, that I don't know what I'm doing with my life, I don't know what life is about, I need to do something. A hole that I need to fill. I want my paintings to show this. When I start with a blank canvas first I make quick abstract image. In the image I always see a space so I fill it in at first in general and later obsessively, neo-baroquely. I wander these spaces trying to escape but every time I finish a painting it leaves me unsatisfied and I have to start over again. In a way I feel like i'm in Kierkegaard's first stage of life, the aesthetic, just trying to make the most badd ass painting possible. But I'm also trying to transcend this and wander into the ethical or, preferably, the religious, the spiritual. So sometimes painting for me is almost a sickness, an obsession. Something I have to do every day or I feel asphyxiated. But at the same time, I want painting to be more like a religion. I'm using painting in a way to try to wander out of painting and into something bigger. Like how Buddhists attach themselves to meditation and dharma in order to rid themselves of attachment.

I'm looking for the beauty in being lost. I'm trying to realize that I would not have started looking for this “thing” if I hadn't already found it. I'm born with this sickness that makes it hard for me to leave my easel and have a normal life and I'm using it to try to transform it into something else.

Stuff comes up and I get stuck on it like pyramids, multicolored berries, palm trees, water slides, tigers, blue birds and mostly the little guy. All this is to give a narrative continuity, to try to stick with a theme and see where it takes me.

purple slides 42"X40" oil on canvas

So that's what I have to say about this. Any comments (preferably things like...”you're full of shit and this is why” rather than “awesome, dude) are much appreciated. I've never taken any real art classes, just continuing ed ones...so I don't really know how to write about art or do critiques or anything.

Time Machine 34"X34" Oil on Canvas

Thanks for taking the time to read it and check out the newer paintings. I got two more I'll finish soon and post them up.

brrrrrrrrrrrradner

Orange Chair Room Two Canvases 18"X36" Each Oil on Canvas

experimental work #3

new diver...
oil and acrylic on board
about 28 by 48
are these images too disconnected.
i like the distance but i was considering something to force them to connect more. a layer of something...

experimental work #2

not sure if this large piece is finished.
acrylic on canvas 44 by 44

my goal was to set up multiple passages that played against each other

i like the self portrait drawing and im debating adding paint
i might just glaze everything except the port.or the exact opposite.
what do you think?

are the drips too much?
im thinking about adding one more big element.
like a carefully rendered elk

experimental work #1

i have been into drawing lately. going back to basics
so i have been gessoing boards. and i took the idea of painting
on boxes from my sister kellie pickard.
this is a portrait on a wine box. 90 percent done
i might give it an oil glaze.
what do you think...
another idea im playing with is serving wine at the opening in these.
silly but interesting for me somehow...

what it is

Lightgeist is a critique space meant to inspire and get feedback from rl art buddies. If you were invited to this blog please post your new work, finished or unfinished. Let us know at what stage you think the piece is ("this piece is 90% done"). You may lead the critique of your work by asking the rest of us a question ("do you think this red is too much?").
You may post anything that has to do with where you are in your work, like a photo or a telling paragraph, sentence or tidbit of anything. I want this space to be a dynamic and challenging outlet for input and inspiration. These are just basic ideas to get us going, anything you see fit, goes.

One practical thing... label or tag the post of your artwork with your first name, so they are organized and accessible.

Here are the rest. The first two are keys. The second two are twigs.

Experimental

Here are a couple pieces from a series of abstract drawings I've been making lately. My internet connection is acting up, so I'll just post these for now.

The idea was to make them look like landscapes as seen from an airplane. I start by drawing objects in different sizes and angles--For these I used a Tootsie Pop. Then I add layers of tape, paint, and found objects.

check

Break-Up, watercolor and pencils on paper, t pickard 2008