Ask an artist to describe the creative process and you’ll likely get a blank, if not downright hostile, stare. Press the point and you might get a dull recitation of technical details or a tortuous explanation of what the work is supposed to make you think or feel–the kind of thing that’s often dubbed an […]
Author Archives: Ann Wiens
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Pictorial Seams
One of the things I’ve always loved about paint is its near limitless potential–a gooey blop of color can become anything. Looking at Lisa Clark’s Spools, a grid of 18 elegant color photographs of spools of sewing thread, I realized that the same could be said of fiber. “Pictorial Seams,” an exhibit of works by […]
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Teresa Mucha
Teresa Mucha is sweet, gentle, and entirely contrary. While many young artists spend as much time developing their careers as they do making art, she recently left the star-studded studio of Tony Fitzpatrick, where she was a Big Cat Press master printer, to go out on her own–her White Wings Press opens next month. She […]
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Artistic License
wiens.qxd Dear editor, I’d like to correct a mistake that appeared in your Calendar section this week (July 31). Your writer chose to illustrate the pluck demonstrated by Pilsen’s Dogmatic Gallery by noting that it is moving to new digs this month, “undeterred by harsh words from the New Art Examiner’s Ann Wiens, who called […]
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Reader to Reader
Two thirtyish men are sitting side by side on the northbound Ravenswood el. “I’m ready to put money on this,” one says. “I’ll buy you a plane ticket to Switzerland if you paint a painting of a bear and a carrot.” “A bear and a carrot, huh. I could do that.” “It’s no risk to […]