I am so excited that my partner Andrew Reach is among 19 other artists being represented by the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center for the Healing Arts in Washington DC. They have begun a new Art Advisory after holding a call for entries to select 20 artists to represent. Smith Center is a non profit Health, Education and Arts Center helping people with Cancer with a holistic approach that includes art’s ability to transform and heal.
The other artists in the Art Advisory are: Joanna Axtmann, Cynthia Back, Carol Barsha, Joan Belmar, Natalya Borisovna-Parris, Anne Bouie, Carolyn Case, Kay Chernush, Nancy Cohen, John Cotterell, Alison Hall, Sharon Lee Hart, Shea Naer, Rachel Rotenburg, Valerie Theberge, Pamela Viola, Kazaan Viveiros, Tom Wagner, and Ellyn Weiss.
Andrew Reach’s circles come alive in this series of 20 radial designs distilled from his unique style and methodology. Each Radial Reduction allows Reach to experience freedom and move kinetically through his art by these spinning constructs, much like the Sufi Whirling Dervishes whose spinning dances bring them closer to spiritual bliss.
The series comprises 20 different designs (view virtual catalog below to see enlarged views of them all). Each design is a Limited Edition of 50, Archival Digital Print on Canvas, 24 x 24 inches. Andrew Reach is offering them for sale stretched and ready to hang including shipping for $395. Special discount for 3 at $995.
This is the first post to introduce you to and I’m very excited to bring you my new category – Movies, located at the top menu bar of my blog. Hovering over this will pull down a menu of my favorite movies.
To all that have come to my blog, my love for film has been a powerful part of my whole life. I have spent much of my life falling in love with many films and many wonderful actors and actresses. They will be the films that have been a part of my life from my childhood to brand new ones . There will be scenes of the movies from you-tube, movie stills and posters and books from many of them.
I picked an early favorite of mine, Pollyanna to kick off my movie pages. I hope you enjoy. But just remember as Pollyanna said, “Just be glad”.
Movies Stills and Movie Posters and Lobby Cards below
This is a 3 Sheet Poster
Lobby Card
LobbyCard
Lobby Card
All posters and books and movie still are from my private movie collection. There will be many more movie stills to come for Pollyanna including lobby cards, press books and posters. Remember to check out my MOVIE category for many of my favorite films.
This is a film about the husband & wife dynamic duo, the great Cleveland artists Gary and Laura Dumm. They each have their own unique style and often collaborate with each other.
Laura is a painter, using vibrant color along with a kaleidoscope of patterns, she has developed her unique modernist approach, with ambidextrous ease, distilling forms whether they be of people, plants and fauna or animals to their essence. Her favorite subject matter is cats. Her art is completely original and takes to wonderful places.
Gary Dumm is a prolific creator of comics. He writes and illustrates many of his own titles. He also collaborates, illustrating comics for other writers. His imagination has no limits, easily traveling back and forth with an irreverent sense of humor from the mundane to the fantastic to the humorous grotesque and everywhere in between.
An excerpt from Wikipedia says about Gary: Gary Dumm (b. c. 1949)[1] is an Ohio-based comic book artist known particularly for his work illustrating the comics of Harvey Pekar. From 1977 until Pekar’s 2010 death, he worked on Pekar’s autobiographical comic series, American Splendor, where he appeared alongside such notable comics artists as Robert Crumb, Joe Sacco, and Gerry Shamray. Much of Dumm’s work on American Splendor was as an inker, embellishing the pencils of Greg Budgett and Joe Zabel. (Dumm has also inked Zabel in other venues, including Caliber’s Dancing With Your Eyes Closed, Fantagraphics’ Real Stuff, and Zabel’s own title The Trespassers.) Dumm collaborated with Pekar as the primary artist on two full-length books, Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, and Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History.
visit Laura and Gary’s website to explore more of their art: www.dummart.com
The day we went over to Laura and Gary’s house. Andrew and I had a wonderful time.
Bruce Baumwoll, Laura Dumm, Andrew Reach, Gary Dumm
AndrewReach & Laura Dumm
Gary Dumm, Andrew Reach, Laura Dumm, Bruce Baumwoll
Gary Dumm, Andrew Reach, Laura Dumm, Bruce Baumwoll
Installation – Andrew’s work “Bumps in the Road” at left
Opening Reception
Opening Reception
