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James May Gallery
- Jan 19
- 8 min
12 Questions: Andrea Alonge
#12questions #artistblog #galleryblog #creativewisdom #artinapandemic #artsy #creativelife #andreaalongeart #contemporarytextiles #contemporaryart #theartoffailure Andrea Alonge was born in Mesa, AZ and currently lives and works in Portland, OR. She received her BFA from The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago in 2013, and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015. She is an artist primarily working with fiber and textiles, and is a member of Carnation Contemporary in
James May Gallery
- Dec 29, 2020
- 3 min
12 Questions: Craig Hill
#artistlife #creativelife #artistblog #galleryblog #craighillart #artsy #onlineexhibition #12questions Craig Hill is a visual artist working in painting, collage, and mixed media sculpture. His work juxtaposes varied modes of representation, creating a visual mash-up that highlights how certain iconography expresses American belief structures. His work is filled with visual contradictions and playful circumstances that are arranged in a single anxious moment. In combining his
James May Gallery
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
12 Questions: Meredith Olinger
#memphisartist #artistlife #creativewisdom #artistblog #galleryblog #contemporaryart #creativelife #artinthetimeofcovid #mereditholinger #jamesmaygalleryblog Meredith Olinger is an artist living and working in Memphis, TN. Olinger works primarily with wallpaper of her own design. Her work deals with the dependence of art and design on each other, handmade versus digital production, and blurs the line between painting and installation. Olinger has been included in many group s
James May Gallery
- Oct 2, 2020
- 6 min
12 Questions: Michael Banning
#contemporaryrealism #painting #oilpainting #realism #artistblog #galleryblog #artistwisdom #creativelife Michael Banning was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1966. He received his BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Banning’s oil paintings and drawings of contemporary American urban, industrial, and domestic landscapes have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, and New York City. His w
James May Gallery
- Jul 13, 2020
- 5 min
12 Questions: Lisa Bergant Koi
#artistblog #creativelife #artistwisdom #abstractpainting #galleryblog #artistlife #jamesmaygallery #artcollector #artkeepsgoing #12questions #creativewisdom #artmatters #supportartists 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? What are you reading or watching right now? Physics for Poets by Robert H. March has me captivated, and I’m keeping up with my subscription to The New Yorker. I also belong to an artist reading group. We get together every few months to c
James May Gallery
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
12 Questions: Kyle McKenzie
#artistblog #contemporarypainting #creativelife #painting #inspiration #artistlife 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? "What Painting Is" by James Elkins 2. What are you currently working on? I’ve been dabbling in different things lately. My main studio work has been abstract landscapes based on memory. Also, I want to go deeper into plein air painting and am starting to organize a few murals at Missouri Southern State University (where I teach). 3. How has
James May Gallery
- Sep 25, 2019
- 2 min
12 Questions: Mollie Oblinger
#artistblog #ceramicsculpture #creativelife #mixedmediasculpture #environmentalart 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? Martin Dresslerby Steven Millhauser was an important book to me during graduate school. I loved Simple Pictures are Bestby Nancy Willard Illustrated by Tomie dePaola when I was a kid, but as I look at it now it is clear that it has had an impact on my artwork. 2. What are you currently working on? I just finished a large series working wit
James May Gallery
- Sep 19, 2019
- 4 min
12 Questions: Barbara Campbell Thomas
#textileart #creativelife #artistlife #pattern #fabric #piecing #painting #inspiration #barbaracampbellthomas 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? I find this question difficult to answer as so many books have been important for various reasons over the years. Some that rise to the top though: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton and The Wild Iris by Louise Glück. 2. What are you currently working on? I am curr
James May Gallery
- Aug 13, 2019
- 4 min
12 Questions: Matteo Neivert
#creativelife #artistblog #12questions #painter #newrealism #surrealism #matteoneivert #biosphere #jamesmaygallery #botanyofdesire 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? Hmmmm. This is a very hard question. 'Atlantis’ by Mark Dotty ‘The Lives of the Artists’ by Giorgio Vasari ‘When You Are Engulfed in Flames’ by David Sedaris 2. What are you currently working on? Art-wise, I am working on paintings that illustrate the strength and delicacy of our current natura
James May Gallery
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
12 Questions: Martin Kahnle
#artistblog #creativelife #inspiration #martinkahnle #jamesmaygallery #artistlife #landscapepaitning 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? [1] A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford, [2] The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, and [3] Crazy from the Heat by David Lee Roth. 2. What are you currently working on? Later this year I plan to continue my landscape work but on a much bigger scale. This summer I am test
James May Gallery
- Jul 31, 2019
- 4 min
12 Questions: Emily Pettigrew
#emilypettigrew #figurativepainting #figureinlandscape #creativelife #creativewisdom #artistblog #jamesmaynorth 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life?
My ‘straight’ job is antiquarian bookseller, so books play a huge part in my daily life. My favorite of all time is Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth. Two and three would be Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs and Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan, not necessarily in order of preference.
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James May Gallery
- Jul 24, 2019
- 4 min
12 Questions: MOTHER + ARTIST: Kathryn E. Martin
#motherartist #publicart #installationart #sculpture #creativelife #artistblog #jamesmaynorth #12questions 1. Can you tell me a bit about yourself? What stage in your career were you when you had children? I received my BFA in Sculpture and Art History from Milwaukee Institute of Design (MIAD) in 2001. Choosing to stay in Milwaukee, I received an MA and MFA in InterMedia Students at The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) in 2005 and 2007 respectively. I continue to tea
James May Gallery
- Jul 21, 2019
- 6 min
12 Questions: MOTHER+ARTIST: Megan Woodard Johnson
#motherartist #collageartist #jamesmaynorth #artistblog #creativelife #localartist #mixedmediaartist #12questions 1. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? What stage in your career were you when you had children? I'm a mixed media artist living and working in West Bend, WI. I'm currently exploring 2D abstract work layering acrylic, collage, oil pastel, graphite and colored pencil. Although I studied art all the way through school, including a Graphic Design degree in college,
James May Gallery
- Jun 22, 2019
- 3 min
12 Questions: Emmett Johns
#12questions #artistblog #creativelife #creativewisdom #jamesmaygallery #emmettjohns #doorcounty #artistlife 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? In my first semester ( January 1960 ) at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the life drawing instructor recommended to me that I read the ART SPIRIT by Robert Henri. That book was like a bible to me all through the 60's and 70's. In the late 60's I discovered J. Krishnamurti, along with Will Durant's the STORY
James May Gallery
- Jun 17, 2019
- 2 min
12 Questions: Ariana Huggett
#artistblog #creativelife #arianahuggett #pleinairpainting #realism #visualart #milwaukeeartist #12questions 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? I'm not religious now and I haven't been for a long time, but I'd say the Bible is up there. When I was young, I loved existentialism and read authors like Camus and Sartre. When I was in art school I enjoyed reading critical theory. My favorite book lately is called the The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How
James May Gallery
- May 24, 2019
- 5 min
12 Questions: Rae Klein
#artblog #creativelife #womenartists #newrealism #oilpainting #raeklein #upcomingexhibition #jamesmaynorth #dogpainting Rae Klein will be part of the inaugural group exhibition at James May North opening June 7 5:30-8. You can find her work on our Artsy page. 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? “Art and Fear” by David Bayles and Ted Orland, “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron, and ‘Creating a Charmed Life’ by Victoria Moran. All of them basically have the sa
James May Gallery
- May 19, 2019
- 4 min
12 Questions Kara Shaw
#artblog #artistmother #artofwater #artofwateriii #karashaw #creativelife #everydayinspiration #jamesmaygallery 1.What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? My grandmother’s journal from 1943. She documents in her experience in WACS (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps). The pages are incredibly delicate, and I can’t help but feel so much pride as I carefully thumb through the pages. I’m sharing her last entry. Written in cursive next to a carefully placed photo of her in he
James May Gallery
- May 1, 2019
- 5 min
12 Questions: Lynn Gilchrist
#artistlife #painter #artistblog #lynngilchrist #artofwater #jamesmaygallery #creativelife 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? I read "The Second Sex," by Simone de Beauvoir, as a young adult in the late 60's. It helped confirm and inform my feminist outlook "The New Art," a late-60's anthology of essays about contemporary art, was an eye-opening introduction to artists and critical thinking that I read right before entering college. It gave me a new vocabul
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