Artist-in-Residence Opportunity

Joshua Tree National Park and the Riverside Art Museum Are Looking for Artist-in-Residence Participants. I think your readers will really be interested in this! For more information or to download an application visit http://www.riversideartmuseum.org

Thanks,
Janell Glessner
RAM Intern

Kindergarten Drawing Carole Gelker

Transformation

From ordinary thinking comes
A start
Of recognition
Something of a part.

Need
Precedes necessity as more
Wanting
An explanation of what its for.
Slowly the earth turns
Day into night
Leading to thought and brings
An alchemy of beginning.

Trial and error
Pursue each other so,
Frequenting misgivings that I know
Succumb to understanding
Nothing
Without the sought for factor.
Intuition and not the rule
Of delicate balance
Of the bold and true
Found in a painted, abstract thing.

Thom Wright

Comments

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Who is showing this month?

If you are in a show, let us know! e-mail randallholbrook@cox.net with all the show info, and a pic to go with it if you have one. Also, there are a lot of empty member pages! Send me a bio or an artist's statement along with 5 photos of your work and I will post them for you. I can help with the photography if you need it as well.

In Process

In Process

The painting stares at me
and I at it,
Thinking what’s wrong,
What’s next to commit.
Then guessing at the change’s hue
and color,
Just a brushstroke here
And there
Unlike any other.

Looking takes the longest time
To decide,
What possibilities may come.
How they might reside.

A palette full of choices
Asks what’s next.
Your mind dabbles,
Tries,
Wipes a misjudged cue,
Second-guessing,
Experimenting,
What to do.

It’s evident at last,
What mark is just the one,
To make a painting
Whole before it’s done.

Thom Wright, 2009

Moving into 2009