MONTHLY STUDIO UPDATE: AUGUST 2002
Non-Studio Updates:
My apologies for not updating my updates. Far from nothing going on, too much is happening through this unairconditioned, hot Greek summer.
The Foundation for the Advancement of Art is a reality. It was incorporated in June as a non-profit educational organization. The 501 c 3 tax-free status is pending. Its web site should be up and running in the very near future. While I was at the TOC conference in L.A. I recruited a few excellent people for the Board of Advisors and fund-raised a very good starting sum. If you are interested in contributing please let me know.
I very much enjoyed giving the lecture, the Enlightened Hero and Heroine, at that conference. Mainly because I have a huge amount of respect for the works of Martine Vaugel and Stuart Feldman and I felt honored to share that with a large audience.
I am busy on the final installment of the Pandora's Box Series. In it I will cover a few philosophical aesthetic ideas of Kant, Aristotle, and Rand as well as include a few ethical statements from the Dalai Lama! I will close out the article by presenting one of the great, contemporary, and unacknowledged sculptural achievements of all time as the alternative to postmodern aesthetics.
Pandora's Box Part I http://www.solohq.com/Articles/Newberry/Pandoras_Box_Part_I.shtml
has ruffled quite a few feathers on one of the biggest artist sites on the web, you can read comments here: http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52857
Pandora's Box Part II, will come out in the next edition of The Free Radical September 1st. This article was about 3,000 words and writing it was one of the most psychologically difficult things I have every done in my life. In it I trace, through first hand observations, how the postmodern art community "silences" any alternative to their perspective. I also propose what their motivation could be and how understanding this motivation then makes complete and logical sense about the aesthetic chaos that they present.
On August 29th in Glasgow, Scotland I will be speaking at the conference, Having the Courage of Your Perceptions, an official satellite event to the ECVP Conference, European Conference on Visual Perception. The other speakers are artists and stellar scientists in the field of visual perception. My lecture will be The Golden Mean in Painting: Light, Form, and Spatial Depth. One very important aspect of my talk, and I guess of the other speakers as well, will be the significance of identities (form) in visual perception--which comes back to the universality of the subject matter in painting, i.e. representational art.
STUDIO UPDATES:
I was very keen to upload new visual updates, I will have about 12 things to show, but I misplaced the cord that hooks up my digital camera to my computer, I think it is in Los Angeles! I will see if I can by a new one later today or tomorrow, the 19th or 20th. If I get the cord I will post images soon!