I’m collecting a series of signs and found this one at Paul Madonna’s studio during Open Studios. His work combines words of inspiration with beautiful drawings of San Francisco.
Diebenkorn’s Notes on Beginning a Painting
I’ve gone three times. As you enter the show you’ll find Diebenkorn’s “Notes on Beginning a Painting” on the wall.
Going through the show I noticed and liked how you can see the layers of paint underneath. How he doesn’t try to hide his “mistakes” and instead they are part of the work.
What ways can you “Be careful only in a perverse way”? (See Item #10).
A Pledge Each Day, According to Hung Liu
Chasing Ghosts
“You live to tell, tell to live,” said Hung Liu.
It was Earth Day, April 20th, as I dashed from taking photos of trashion (short name for trash fashion) at the Berkeley Vegan Festival to the Oakland Museum of Art. I didn’t want to miss a chance to see and meet one of my heroes.
More people showed up than there were seats available inside the auditorium. Maybe it was fate, I got in just before the cutoff.
Liu was dressed in a black tunic with pants and her long hair was pulled back. She spoke for 45 minutes about her life and journey as an artist and was then interviewed by senior museum curator, Rene de Guzman.
“Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu” is on display until June 30, 2013 at the Oakland Museum of Art.