Nature Art – The House Wren
I painted the house wren below in water color in l975 on construction paper while the
Middle School science teacher at Rippowam-Cisqua School in Bedford, New York. I was in my late twenties and had been obsessed by the beauty of birds for almost a decade. I gave the painting to my dear friend Wren Wirth. It …Read More
#49: Rhopalocera (butterfly and moth) paintings by Zoe Viles
“One afternoon while sitting in the white-washed stone, restored barn gallery where I had a show a few years ago, I became mesmerized by the efforts of a moth fluttering persistently against a window in its attempt to follow the light. The poignancy of that struggle touched me deeply, as it has so many times …Read More
#22: Matchwork by Sasha Chavchavadze
SASHA CHAVCHAVADZE – STATEMENT
The medium of matches combined with paper is a perfect metaphor for the uncertain and volatile culture in which we live. Though the work has an anarchic aspect – the potential for destruction by fire, the need for an explosion of meaning in a culture that has lost its bearings, it …Read More
#21: Introduction to Keeper’s Memory : The Kim Esteve Art Collection and a Narrative History of Chacara Flora
by Edward Leffingwell
I had heard about this great scene in Sao Paulo revolving around a man called Kim Esteve. In February of l999 the opportunity came to check it out. Kim is a bosom buddy of the New York-based photographer Jonathan Becker, and Jonathan and I were doing a piece for Vanity Fair on …Read More
#3: Europe’s African Art Treasures
Twenty years ago, I spent two months traveling around Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Having spent some time in the Amazon, I wanted to see how the world’s second-largest rainforest compared. It was my first trip to Africa, and the unfettered joie de vivre and creativity of the Zairois (who are actually …Read More