“They are not just buying works, but expanding their world. They are living within a community of artists, dealers, and curators in a rhythm of conversations, studio visits, poetry, and friendships. They told me living with art “broadens the whole way you look at the world. It’s like when you travel to a new country. This is like traveling to hundreds of new countries.”
- Inga Bard
Read our latest editorial piece, written by Inga Bard (@ingabard ) on artbae.info. Link in our bio!
200 years ago, if you wanted to hold an image still against time you’d have to paint it, draw it, sculpt it or stitch it. Then photography arrived and liberated humans from the time consuming labor of visually recording history, glorifying power, remembering faces and places, etc. Painting, freed from certain duties, drifted elsewhere: toward reflection, processing, dreaming and imagining new ways of being.
And now images, even moving image, can appear in the blink of an eye. I’ve been thinking a lot about what painting can still do for us and am excited to dig into this question with artist Abel Rodriguez (@abel_rdgz ) next Tuesday March 31st, 6pm at Shack15.
Hope to see you there! (Link in bio)
Art Bae Award Round II applications are still open!
The deadline to submit has been extended to April 8th - apply apply!
Art Bae is thrilled to partner with Safety Net Fund to launch the Art Bae Award, an initiative designed to uplift and empower Bay Area artists by providing support in the final stages of their projects.
We recognize that many artists persevere through financial barriers, often reaching the last stretch of a project without the resources needed to fully realize their vision. This award is for artists who have already invested significant time and effort into their work and need one final boost—whether for an exhibition, publication, performance, or another creative endeavor.
The applications are purposefully short, we try to keep it as easy as possible for artists so you can focus on making the work. Let’s keep it simple!
Link in bio to apply!
Painting for me is a tool for understanding the complex systems that shape our world. As we stand at the gates of a new era, we need a nuanced cultural fluency and technological literacy in how these systems shape us in order to navigate it well. Art can absolutely be that bridge to help us deepen our understanding of the new frontier.
This is an older painting from last year where I was beginning something new that evolved into the work which finally makes sense to me now. More tomorrow!
Join us on March 31 for a conversation with SHACK15 Artist Fellow Abel Rodriguez (@abel_rdgz ). Following his presentation, I’ll join him on stage to explore an enduring question: What is painting, and why does it matter now?
In a world saturated with disposable digital images, Rodriguez slows perception down. By repainting photographs by hand, he transforms them from fleeting images into physical objects that ask for sustained attention. Together, we’ll explore what happens when images move from screens into space, and how painting continues to shape the way we see and understand the world.
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Hope to see you there!
Becoming a parent unlocked a new ability within me to loosen up and allow abstraction into my paintings. Im shocked to discover that I am actually producing more work that I’m excited about now than before the baby. This new work is both more decisive and conceptual at the same time. My practice now takes place part time in my studio and part time in my head, during the long meditative hours of slow breathing while shushing the defiant toddler to sleep. I guess that’s transcendental meditation in a nutshell.
Thanks to my trusted assistant Tony this self portrait now feels complete! 🚀
(To be clear: Tony is not taking a human’s job. My incredibly talented assistant got into Goldsmiths, (woohoo!) so we are training another human to take over her role. I will gladly pay more humans as soon as I can afford it.
#buyartfeedanartist )
