Special Double Post: New November/Dam it My Glasses are Broken Again December

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” 

― Pablo Picasso

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. 

― Jane Austen

Success supposes endeavor. 

― Jane Austen

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little. 

― Louise Bourgeois

What I'm Doing

I've been doing a lot. Most of it is, as usual, prep work but I've gotten a new camera (Instax Mini8) and a new lens (fixed length 50mm), both gifts, and I've been playing around with those. I've also started research into doing the mixed media works I plan to start int the coming year. It's going to be good, trust me ;)

I've also finished work on my first curation. I co-curated an exhibit with three of my colleagues and Professor Ruth Ann? Phillips to produce an exhibit, named Changing Tides which explores the history of my campus through photos and artifacts. I did web design, some photography, selected museum texts and co curated. If you want to see the exhibit it's at http://smcmchangingtides.weebly.com/  If you have any questions on the exhibit, feel free to contact me at enrader.dc@gmail.com.

These images are works in progress for the Abstracts. I hope to do Signs work that will be displayed alongside but we'll see about that. 

I don't have any images of this but I've gotten the supplies to make the canvas for the Lilac Painting. These supplies consist of the tools to stretch canvas, unprimed canvas cloth and 25" stretcher bars. 

More work on the Johns and Others... photograph. I'm thinking about doing a series of referential works, though it may end up just being a few photographs with the name "____ and Others" there's a couple other images I've done but they're film so I'm waiting on getting access to a different scanner. 

Exploring compositions for future works for the Abstracts series, which you can't see yet. :P 

What I've Been Reading

TheArt World’s Patron Satan by Christopher Glazek in the New York Times 

Why Cities Can’t Afford to Loose their Artists by Richard Florida for City Lab

The Changing Complex Profile of Black Abstract Painters by Hilarie M. Sheets for Art News

Why the D.C. Gallery Landscape isn’t as Barren as Outsiders Claim by Kriston Cappsfor the Arts Desk in Washington City Paper

The Death of the Artist- and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur by WilliamDeresiewicz for The Atlantic

The Ego-centric Art World is Killing Art by JJ Charlesworth for Artnet

MoMA’s New Curatorial Guard by Hilarie M Sheets for Art News

The50 Most Exciting Artists of 2014 by Christian Viveros-Fauné for Artnet

The10 Art News Stories of 2014 You Need to Know at Art News

No More Normcore by Sam Jacobs for Art Review

What I've Been Listening To 

1. Tongues (feat. Kopps)– Joywave
2. Give It Up- Viktoria Modesta
3. You Could Have it All– CSS
4. Strange Girl– The Zolas
5. Take Your Mama– Scissor Scissters
6. Careful You- TV on Radio
7. Purple, Red Yellow and Blue– Pourtugal. The Man
8. Stolen Dance– Milky Chance
9. Concrete Wall– Zee Avi
10. How Bizarre– OMC
11. Walking with the Ghost– Tegan and Sara
12. Nothing’s Impossible– Depche Mode
13. Art & a Wife– Rah Rah
14.  Feeling Good (Bass Nectar Remix)- Nina Simone
15. Around Town– The Kooks
16. Want it Back– Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orechestra
17. Busy Earnin’– Jungle
18. Of a Friday Night– Anaïs Mitchell
19. Let Me In!– Siriusmo
20. Stupid– Brandon Maclean
21. Alors on Danse– Stromae
22. Come With Me Now– KONGOS
23. Let’s Groove– Earth, Wind, and Fire
24. The Way I Walk– The Cramps
25. Bette Davis Eyes– Kim Carnes
26. Little Bit- Lykke Li

What I'm Thinking About

Glenn Ligon's Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)
Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art

Miriam Schapiro's The Kimono (1976)
image courtesy of Artandperception.com

Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) (1950)
image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cindy Sherman's Untitled #91 from the Centerfold Series (1981)
image from MoMA

Romaine Brooks' Self Portrait (1923)
image courtesy of the American Art Museum

Lynda Benglis's Blatt (1969)
image courtesy of MoMA

Georgia O'Keeffe's Horse’s Skull with White Rose (1931) 

image courtesy of the Georgia O'Keeffe museum 

Todd Forsgren's  Puerto Rican Tody (Todus mexicanus) (2009)
Image courtesy of the artist

The Installation at BWI (an airport in Baltimore) by Lisa Scheer
image courtesy of the artist

What I've been Seeing

New Graffiti near my suite 

Landscape from Under the road

Happy Birthday to me

Baking Pollock

Super 8 not on Super 8, digital actually 

Testing out my new lens

More testing out my new lens

This is what they call a Black Velvet, half Champagne, Half Guinness, super awesome 

Cubist Still life of Butternut Squash

What I Plan on Seeing

 The Exhibition Summery for The Traveler’s Eye at the Freer Sackler Gallery

Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea at the NMWA

The Singing and the Silence; Birds in Contemporary Art at the American Art Museum

At the Hub of Things at the Hirshhorn: New Views of the Collection

Monthly Selfie

Ellen and I watching a show on the laptop

"Blind" Selfie with Dog

There's alot more and when I get a scanner I can upload the Instant film pictures and the Prints.

-Happy New Year's!

E.