Becca Shaw Glaser shares her poetry, and speaks on activism and Black Lives Matter

Mid Coast Maine poet, artist, and activist Becca Shaw Glaser joins ahttakes for this episode. Becca reads some of her poetry dealing with sexuality, connection and uncertain optimism. She also shares her thoughts on the importance of activism and feeling called to act on pressing issues facing us now, especially the Black Lives Matter movement. Listen below...(some strong language.)

Audio interview (strong language):

Becca Shaw Glaser read her poems as follows:

The Planet of Lost Things

So Humans

Dick Pics

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 Mentioned in the interview: 

Beyonce

Anti-Capitalist Love Notes

Karen Finley

Diamanda Galas

Allen Ginsberg

Gil Scott-Heron

Kathy Acker

Jim Crow

Alicia Garza

Idle No More

Warsan Shire

Ta-Nehesi Coates

Story on Jonathan Bachman's photo of protester, Leisha Evans

Mindful Occupation booklet

 All artwork featured on this post done by Becca Shaw Glaser

Selected online published writing by Becca:

How We Made Love - Quaint Magazine

Everyone I Knew Was So Anxious - Lemon Hound

The Handshake - luna luna

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Thank you for listening! 

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Richard F Fonseca of Heavy Metal Textbooks

 Remember old-school metal music? Know new metal? 

Richard F Fonseca (based in Massachusetts), of the blog Heavy Metal Textbooks, is the guest on this episode. Rick talks metal, and other heavy music, with me as I sat back (mostly) and got and education on some of the earliest metal bands as well as some current bands that are vigorously keeping the genre alive. 

I was given some listening homework assigned by Rick, prior to our chat, and my personal exploration into harder music left me to realize that there is more than meets the ear. This journey (not the band) led Rick and I to stroll down memory lane a bit, as he and I were art students together many moons ago and had discovered a ton of music in parallel. 

Here is one of the graphics Rick created for the HMT blog:

Rick also talks shop a bit on the mechanics of creating and running the HMT blog. I hope you enjoy this talk on all things heavy music. There’s even some music to give a listen to. Listen below.

Audio chat (some strong language): 

Bands who's music is featured on this episode:

1st: Buddy Revell - out of New Bedford, MA (no longer active, but the music can still be heard loud and clear!)

2nd band: Energy - out of Stoughton, MA, with the acoustic version of their song "The Shadowlands" You can find more music by Energy on their bandcamp site here: Energy bandcamp profile.

Energy

3rd up was: Caricature - Boston, MA, with their song "Shadows" You can check out more music by Caricature on their bandcamp site here: Caricature on bandcamp.

And the closer was Buddy Revell. Visit Buddy Revell on bandcamp here: Buddy Revell on bandcamp

Please follow the above bandcamp links and support these solid bands! Many thanks to each outfit for placing a song with ahttakes. Cheers, guys! 

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Bands with a mention in the conversation:

Chosen Frozen
Aphex Twin
Hum
Helmet
Jawbox
Portishead
Ministry
Sunny Day Real Estate
Typhoon
Morphine
Pavement
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Alice in Chains
Pantera
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Metallica
Clint Smith (former lead vocals with Gutlust)
Tool
Bon Iver
Volcano Choir
James Blake
Lia Ices
Sharon van Etten
Black Sabbath
Blue Cheer
Led Zeppelin
Judas Priest 
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Venom
Gaskill
Iron Oak
The Hidden
All That Remains
Shadows Fall
Killswitch Engage 
Deftones
Nirvana
Alanis Morrisette
Neurosis
Zombie Fight
Spectral Tower
Godmaker
Eternal Khan
Wreak
Caricature
Energy
Misfits
AFI
Eight Bells
Ghost
Henry Rollins
Buddy Revell

Thanks for listening, and be sure to visit the blog, Heavy Metal Textbooks for more Metal 101. \m/

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James Amberley on the spirit of the artist and more

Chicago area painter, James Amberley, talks about the works of Claude Lorraine, Claude Monet, Paul Klee and Willem de Kooning. Listen in as he draws parallels through art history and these figures, via the subject of abstraction, the landscape and back again. Also in the talk is insightful commentary on the artist's spirit found throughout these themes. Listen below.

 Claude Lorraine

View of Delphi with a Procession, 1673 oil on canvas, 101.5 x 127 cm/40 x 50 inches

Art Institute of Chicago

 Claude Monet 

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1867 oil on canvas, 81.5 x 100.7cm/32 x 40 inches

Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Klee 

In the Style of Kairouan, Transferred to the Moderate, 1914 Watercolour 12.3 x 19.5 cm/5 x 8 inches

Paul Klee Foundation, Kunstmuseum, Berne

 Willem de Kooning 

Park Rosenberg, 1957 oil on canvas, 207.3 x 182.6 cm/82 x 70 inches

Private collection

James Amberley

Audio talk:

Two works by Amberley:

James Amberley

Jardin Verre, 2014 oil on paper, 20.8 x 20.8/8 x 8 inches

James Amberley

Untitled, 2013 oil on paper, 54.5 x 55.2 cm/21 x 21 inches

Other artists etc. mentioned in the talk:

Aldous Huxley
John R. Martin

Marcel Duchamp

Wassily Kandinsky

Kazimir Malevich
Robert Delaunay
George Inness
Turner
 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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Clair Graubner and Judith Farr on collaboration

Painting in Parallel. 

It's the name given to the ongoing painting "conversations" between Clair Graubner and Judith Farr. Though both painters are of English descent, they now reside in different countries. Painting in Parallel is managed via their tumblr blog, and through facebook. 

Listen below as they share their stories detailing the value on the inspiration and support experienced through the sharing of each others works.

 Judith Farr and her two children

 Clair Graubner

Audio chat with the artists:

For more on Painting in Parallel, visit the tumblr blog here: Painting in Parallel

Two of the works in Conversation 4:

Rules:
2 colours plus black and white.
20 mins per stage.

 Comments: 
Fast and furious. No time for doubts. This convo is a modern one in the style of electronic texting or tweeting!

 Stage two (finished)

by Clair Graubner

 Stage one (finished)

by Judith Farr

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Nick De Pirro on PROMPT at Proto Gallery

PROMPT.

Jessica Bottalico
Jen Hitchings
Legada
JJ Miyaoka-Pakola
Shawn Powell

A group show at Proto Gallery in Hoboken, NJ. Proto Gallery president, Nick De Pirro, joins ahttakes to share his thoughts on why Prompt is one not to miss. Fresh with works that appear to be executed with effortless skill. This imagery, presents to the viewer, notions of nature, space, perception and that of being fooled. Please listen below, to this audio tour of the works in the show.


It's Prompt. Now through July 27th 2014

Commentary with Proto Gallery president Nick De Pirro: 

Selections from the show:

 (please click following images to enlarge)

 Jessica Bottalico

 

 JJ Miyaoka Pakola

Jen Hitchings

Shawn Powell

Legada

Welcome

Proto Gallery

66 Willow Avenue
Hoboken, NJ 07030

The gallery is open to the public
Sunday to Thursday
10:00 AM to 4:00PM or by appointment

PROMPT is on view through July 27th 2014


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Andy Anello on Leslie Hewitt

Photographer, Andy Anello, talks with me about the "Riffs on Real Time" photographic series by Leslie Hewitt. We talk scale, formal qualities, physicality of photo as object, Hewitt's influence on Anello, and he also helps the painter in me get a little closer to understanding the concerns that photographers deem important. Listen in for more!

Leslie Hewitt

 Riffs on Real Time (7 of 10), 2006–09. 

Chromogenic print, 30 × 24 inches (76.2 × 61 cm)

 Andy Anello

Leslie Hewitt's website: Leslie Hewitt

Andy Anello's website: Andy Anello

A short three minute video of Hewitt discussing her work:

Stephen Wright on Provisional Painting

Provisional painting? Noticed by Rafael Rubinstein in 2009? After further investigation, dubbed “the New Casualists” by Sharon Butler?

This “Provisional Painting,” and the way it has been executed, has been the subject of several articles recently circling the internet. This sensibility is said to produce works that are “dashed-off” and has been pointed to as “unfinished” and also that these works are an “utter failure.” So, what is it anyway? Why the buzz if it’s results are so “self-canceling?”

Here is an audio account on how all of this struck, painter, Stephen Wright. Listen to his take from a recent conversation I had with him. He has a different response to what he has seen of these developments. (some strong language).

(appearing in the audio clip, is the Red House Painters song "Funhouse")

 Stephen Wright
photo: Lorna Milburn

Below are links to three articles covering Provisional Painting:

Art in America. Provisional Painting by Raphael Rubinstein. May 2009

Two Coats of Paint. The Casualist Tendency by Sharon Butler. February 2014

Abstract Critical. Provisional Painting, Three Hypotheses by Alan Pocaro. February 2014

Also, Painters' Table has assembled a great link list to other articles. Worth a look: Painters' Table


Stephen Wright's tumblr blog: ghost fire