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Welcome to my studio website.
Every time you load this page, a gallery will be picked at random to appear below. Some images are my
work and others are the work of my students. Enjoy! - Stiller
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LEAP GALLERY photos and painting from
"Leap of Framing Workshop" April 9 - 13
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Leap of Framing | April 9 – 13, 2012 go to the gallery
It’s a visual story and it was a great week in the studio. The kids made some amazing images, both photos and paintings. They became much more observant and they got together as a group. There was cooperation, helpfulness, shared aesthetic and lots of jokes. Looking through the frame of the camera is a way of focusing what you see. When you can see the frame, you know the relationship of everything inside it.
Composition is intuitive. When something works visually, it is recognizable. We may not know why, but we can find out why. Then we can use these ideas of composition in drawing and painting. Out of thousands of images, some stood out again and again.
I have not written since the winter. A lot has happened since then. Always at the end of a session, Fall , Winter, Spring , I am enamored with the student artwork of that session. Once again I am looking back at a body of work, in love. The children have produced beautiful art, week after week. So many classes and individuals involved in art process, each one unique, sweet and challenging. I like being part of the kids wild energetic scene.
Winter Eyes show is OPEN! It was a great event Dec 3rd, with art, music, food and good politics. The studio walls are dense with art. Abovo is sparkling, a visual pleasure.
Visual Think Tank on Fracking, The idea is catching on.
Visual Think Tank on Fracking is a forum to examine closely the issues of water, ourselves, energy, policy and the corporate interests through the lens of graphic representation . At this time we need these visual paradigms and the interchange that they will provoke.
Where is the warning?
There is no canary
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was gutted of its science. They were supposed to protect us with objective logic in the face of corporate interests, and then...
I am looking for a group who wants to join me in this useful endeavor on Tuesday nights, plumbers, muscisians, printmakers rabbis scientists, historians. Group members can come from any disciple and do not need to have visual arts skills. Marks made by people who are not artists are often the most genuine and transparent in meaning. Everyone is welcome.
It is true that nothing turns out exactly as we expect, however I can imagine the best success and make a plan. Ordering supplies is being involved in a fantasy of the future. I look through the catalogue and try to play a movie in my head of what camp will look like, the details and the practicalities. What will entice us? What is the structure of my teaching? What qualities in an art material will open a door to self-expression?
