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Surrealists melded reality with dreams to create imaginative juxtapositions of imagery
André Breton declared in his 1924 essay “The Surrealist Manifesto” that he believes in “the future resolution of…dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.” It is post-World War I Europe, Breton has read some Freud and, along with a handful of
One wise geek’s Holiday Gift Guide
ISSUE’s resident expert offers ideas to keep your nerds content this season The sweltering heat of summer has given way to the not so bad heat of autumn and that means Christmas must be right around the corner. No doubt you’ve got some eccentric personalities on your Christmas list and you have no idea what
View From The Top
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ISSUE December 2016
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ISSUE November 2016
Click here to see the full magazine Inside: Garrett and Laurette’s “Anchors,” AMSET Curator Wilson, Reviewing Wood’s “Curtain Call,” Mail Art, Soutine in Smilovichi, and more.
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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
With a little help from their friends
Garrett, Laurette celebrate friendships in ‘Anchors’ exhibition in November For some, relationships are a fleeting thing. People come. People go. But for others relationships can be the foundation for a lifetime. That’s the idea behind “Anchors,” the exhibition of Sandra Laurette, Suzanne Garrett and friends running Nov. 5 through Nov. 25. The exhibition will include
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
A Date with Soutine: My Trip to Smilovichi
“My paintings are a heap of shit, but better than Modigliani, Marc Chagall, and Kremegne. Some day I will destroy my canvases but (I am) too cowardly to do it.” — Chaim Soutine SMILOVICHI, Belarus — Bloody carcasses, dead chickens, ghoulish faces…. Even today, having been desensitized by artists like Damien Hirst and other exponents