Author Archives: artstudio

View From The Top

Politics is full of controversy these days, and although everyone has an opinion about it and the direction our country should be following, our nonprofit status does not allow us to express or endorse an opinion about issues supported by one party, candidate or another.  We can, however, speak about policies that affect us in

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View from the Top

In writing my little diatribes each month I  sometimes feel that I am whistling in the dark. Is anyone really reading these things? Should they? My last month’s attempt to further define The Studio, and open eyes to our goals and aspirations pointed to the outsider artist, the loner who may feel that there is

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Savage Confections

Wood’s AMSET exhibition, ‘Curtain Call,’ subverts, repulses, delights On the face of it, the gallery is filled with a syrupy confection of “girly” pastel colors and surrounded by gaudy gold frames — an explosion of stereotypical femininity. But if one draws back the metaphorical curtain, one sees a dark, harsh imagery full of violence, that turns

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Stimulating Curator

AMSET’s Sarah Beth Wilson straddles past, present to present art to SETX “Three Als” (1993) by Gael Stack, is an oil painting taking up most of the wall opposite Sarah Beth Wilson’s desk, with marks emulating chalk on a chalkboard. Her office includes a shelf with too many books — from early world art through

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