Meet and Greet the Artists at Northside Galleries this Saturday
Saturday, Oct 31st- 12pm-4pm
Meet Dale White (Contemporary Mixed Media Fine Art) and Jeff Crane (Fine Art Photography) and view their recent artwork.
Jeff Crane has an awesome collection of digitally manipulated photographs depicting all the famous Ft. Wayne landmarks- He has added 8 new images to his collection! He will also be showing some of his Polaroid transfers which are classically amazing!!
Refreshments from Zia's Coffee, Sweets and More will be served. She is making a great spiced apple cider called Wassail that is amazing!
Starting in January we will start having a featured Ft Wayne artist each month. We have some great ideas in the works to create more then just a place to go to see art. As always we will continue to have fine art available from all the best Ft. Wayne artists (and there are some great ones!) as well as art from around the country and around the world. We have pieces in all styles and price ranges in both 2 and 3 dimensions.
Where:
Northside Galleries
335 E State Blvd.
Ft Wayne, IN 46805
260.483.6624
www.northsidegalleries.com
Located just west of the intersection of State Blvd. / Spy Run Ave. In the Blue and White Building across from the old Kroger parking lot.
Extended Hours:
Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am-5pm
Tuesday- 10am-3pm
Wednesday 10am-7pm
After October we will be temporarily back to normal hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10am-5pm
Tuesday- 10am-3pm
Stemapunk Month Wallpapers: Manchess, Foster, Tenery, Frietas
HMS Stubbington, the logo
Thom Tenery
Eric Frietas
Jon Foster
Greg Manchess
Quick update: The posters mentioned below are all called-for. But a sincere thanks to everyone for reading.
Steampunk Month Letterpress Poster
For the full story, go to: Making the Tor.com Steampunk press poster.
More photos here.
And if anyone wants one, the first five people that email me their name and address get a poster. UPDATE: Sorry folks - all gone.
And here we are in action:
Donato demo download from Massive Black
Order it here.
Trailer below.
Apropo t0 nothing, I love this painting -- one of my recent faves from Donato.
[Thanks to Dan Dos Santos for the heads up.]
ARTWORKS Holiday Art Gallery at Jefferson Pointe
Who: 25 local and regional artists
What: ARTWORKS Holiday Art Gallery is back for a second year, nestled in cozy Jefferson Pointe, next to Barnes & Noble. 25 artists from the area will be selling their work and running the gallery for the next 8 weeks! Choose from a wide variety of paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, wood, clothing, glass & more!
When: November 1-December 23, 2009
RECEPTION: Sunday, November 15, 5-8pm
OPEN: Mon-Sat: 10am-9pm & Sun:12-5
Cost: No Charge
Phone: 260-432-6419
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
One of my all-time favorite fashion spreads in RUSSH. Katie Fogarty is stunning!
Incidentally, the new issue came out this week - always a cause for celebration! xo, i.d.
Photo credits: http://community.livejournal.com/foto_decadent/1968305.html#cutid1
Just in: Idiot's Books still amazing!
For more background, see this post.
Armani Casa - Interior Design
Armani Casa this past Tuesday night that was packed with a very stylish crowd and a lot of handsome Italian men. Why American men can't look that good in a suit is beyond me but I digress. The chicest person in the room was actually the Interior Design Director of Armani Casa, Joy Moyler! I couldn't decide if I wanted to steal her entire outfit or create a Habitually Chic award in her honor! Joy designed John Mayer's new apartment and we agreed that bachelors make the best clients! They agree with pretty much everything you suggest and are always so appreciative. The only problem with John's project was that he was always traveling so that meant a lot of emails and strangely timed phone calls but it looks like it was worth it as you can see in the September 2009 issue of Elle Decor.
Joy was kind enough to introduce me to John who said he couldn't be happier in his new apartment. Since he does travel so much, he wanted to create a more "zen" home where he would have five pairs of black pants, five black shirts, five white tees, etc. I had to joke with him about how long that could last since New York makes you want to collect things and we agreed that he might need to get a storage space. Then I was elbowed out of the way by two blond girls who wanted to have their photo taken with him and that was the end of that conversation.
Vote for Scott Fischer!
If you don't take my word on it, just try getting through take-two on this video without laughing.
Artlink to host Studio Visit - Sayaka & Chris Ganz
WHEN: Friday, November 6, 2009 from 6 to 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: 5702 Homewood Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46825
COST: Tickets $10 for Artlink members; $15 for non-members. A portion of ticket sales will be shared with the artists.
CONTACT:Deb Washler, Executive Director, deb@artlinkfw.com; (260) 424-7195
Sayaka & Chris Ganz Studio Visit
Artlink members and the public are invited to visit the home studio of artists Christopher and Sayaka Ganz on Friday, November 6 from 6 to 9:00 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be provided by Club Soda. The artists live at 5702 Homewood Drive, just south of Smith Field and west of Northcrest. Christopher Ganz is an Associate Professor of Printmaking at IPFW and a nationally known drawer and printmaker. He received his MFA from IU, Bloomington. Sayaka Ganz, an exciting sculptor, recently received her MFA from Bowling Green. Sayaka currently has an exhibit of her sculpture at Science Central. The public is invited to talk with the artists, tour the studio and shop at will. Ticket cost is $10 for Artlink members and $15 for non-members. For ticket information and directions to the studio, see www.artlinkfw.com or call Artlink at 260.424.7195.
This is the second event in Artlink’s new Studio Visit Series. The public is invited to future studio visits: March 26, 2010 – Rob Borel, photographer; May 22, 2010 – Terry Ratliff, painter.
Behind the scenes on the Eye of the World ebook cover
"....It seemed a natural to start the series with a portrait of a young Rand beginning an epic journey, the scope of which he could perhaps sense but not truly grasp. David’s luminescent paint lights Rand from within. In a way, it seems to be a portrait of Rand best seen at this time, when readers know so much about what lies ahead of him..."
The full story here.
Eye of the World ebook now on Amazon
You can now order The Eye of the World ebook
I little behind-the-scenes post on the cover tomorrow.
David Grove, Hall of Fame: a Greg Manchess introduction
For some background on David, below is Greg Manchess' introduction at David's induction into the Illustrators' Hall of Fame, June 2007.
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One could describe my friend David Grove as a reluctant illustrator....but a focused one.
You’d never know it from looking at the work of course. There’s nothing reluctant about any of it...the passages of color, sweeping strokes and soft sharp edges blending in and out with such
control....no one goes into this kind of focus with reservation.
I’ve always gotten the sense that David was a bit of a maverick. Born to parents who were both artists, David decided that he would be a chemical engineer. He won a scholarship to Syracuse from a drawing competition.
But after being there awhile he changed his major to photography. He liked the technical side of things. After college he made enough money in a photography studio to indulge his wanderlust and fled to Europe.
Living in Paris, he lived the cafe lifestyle over there and made some money playing jazz piano. After a time, money running low, he was hired to do some pencil drawings for a Macy’s-style shop in France. He lived on the money he made from that one job for 3 months. Living an
exotic European lifestyle.
He was later convinced to come to England to work at a studio, Artists Partners. This only lasted for a year....he might have remained in England but for the toxic nature of English food. He just could not take one more fish and chips. After all, he was getting older, he was 29....that stuff can kill a man.
He came back to the US and after seeing more of the great works of all the great illustrators living in Westport....he promptly fled to California. Where he found a bit of the Parisian cafe life in San Francisco.
At this point, David was doing all sorts of work for advertisers and publishers. I remember one distinct cover of a book he did about some rebels. The title escapes me but the image is vivid. Four figures in a mean-spirited pose, weapons in hand, one figure was a nun. The nun has nothing to do with the story I’m about to tell...but I’ve never forgotten that cover. Maybe he can tell us about the nun later.
David needed guns for this pose and instead of buying them, his technical side had the bright idea to build them. All he needed was the shapes and light on them to draw convincing weapons. But spray painting them in his apt would never do....so, like any sane man, he took them to the roof of the building.
Now, in those days, the SF Police were rather sensitive to rooftop snipers. But David had a deadline....and his focus was on the work. As he was spray painting a few of the fake guns on the roof, he heard the distinct crackle of a police radio, that seemed awfully close. Maybe down in the street. He kept on spray painting. But he soon had an odd sensation of being watched.
He held up the cardboard gun to check out how the sun was glinting off the steel grey cardboard barrel he was spraying, and as he turned to step back for a better look he noticed the door to the roof, and watched, bewildered, as a huge barrel of a gun slid slowly out of a small window by the door and was pointing directly at David.
Moments later he recalls being set upon by rather large members of SWAT, being thrown down and angrily frisked while all sorts of screaming ensued about how he should not try anything like ‘moving.’
With much frenetic silver-tongue reasons, he finally convinced them that the guns weren’t real. One SWAT member went over and picked up the toilet paper roll, cigarette pack, taped weapon and confirmed it.
He was led down to his apt where he showed them what he was doing and while still explaining this in the stairway, as the police were headed out the front door, he happened to notice that his entire block had been cordoned off and a large crowd of people had gathered to watch the SWAT guys shoot the ‘sniper.’
This doesn’t say much about David’s actual painting but more about his focus. He has a tremendous focus and a dead serious laser guided desire to wrangle a piece of painting into the most lovingly crafted flow of beauty.
So much so, that one time David was rubbing away at his painting, in the days when he used acrylics and inks instead of the guache and acrylics he would later use, to get a nice wash of color just perfect for a portrait head that he was doing for TIME magazine......when suddenly he realized he had rubbed completely through the illustration board he was painting on.
This is focus. This is David’s focus.
When I look at his work, I hear it as well as feel it. His washes and color become lyrical in a musical sense. His work is Beethoven strong....Mozart playful....and Paganini driven. And the light....oh....it is scrumptous, edible...it’s not the way the light falls on an object that he paints, but the light the painting generates within itself. It’s as if you could look at a Grove in the
dark and still see it by it’s own light. (I have a Grove at home...I often use it as a nightlight)
I first met him when I was a student. We got along immediately. I loved his passion about illustrating and getting it right. He was the first real professional illustrator I’d ever met. And when I & a friend brought our portfolios over to his apt one day, I realized that this was the lifestyle I wanted to have as an illustrator myself. He was an American Illustrator with a European lifestyle.
He said goodbye to us that day, wished us luck and said, “just remember...when you get out of
school and into the field, I’ll be your competition.”
Again, David's focus.
It is my great honor to introduce my old friend and colleague for the Society’s highest honor, the Hall of Fame....
TOP PHOTO:
Murray Tinkleman, David Grove, Gary Kelley, Linda Kelley, Terry Brown.
Tor.com Steampunk Meet-up
We hosted the third Tor.com meet-up last night. In celebration of Steampunk Month we went to Brooklyn's soon-to-open steampunk bar, The Way Station, and encouraged the courageous to polish off their goggles and dress-up for the occasion. Despite heavy rains we had a great, creative crowd that included a number of Tor.com readers, authors, bloggers, artists, and comic book creators.
Animation
Last week on Saturday Morning Cartoons:
The Cat Piano: A beat-noir-feline-Poe-ish horror story. Beautifully drawn. Narrated by Nick Cave—it’s as great to listen to as it is to watch. (8.30 minutes.)
The Lighthouse Keeper: Sometimes bugs are the good guys. A Goeblins film. Which means, of course, it’s beautifully designed and animated. (3.15 minutes)
Featured Artist Shows at Northside Galleries
For those of you who missed seeing Terry Ratliff last night, don't worry, we are always carrying his work as well as our other artists. However, we have 3 featured artist shows left this month! Refreshments from Zia's Coffee, Sweets and More will be served. She is making a great spiced apple cider called Wassail that is amazing!
This Saturday, Oct 24th- 10am-5pm
Linda Binek (Contemporary Fine Art) and Virginia Nance (Fine Art Jewelry) will be here from 12pm-4pm.
Linda's work has won awards across the country and Virginia's Fine Art glass jewelry is amazing.
This coming Wednesday, Oct 28th 4pm-7pm
Karen Moriarity (Watercolor and Oil Paintings)
Karen's work depicts scenery in Northeast Indiana and is the best of the best!
Saturday, Oct 31st- 12pm-4pm
Dale White (Contemporary Mixed Media Fine Art) and Jeff Crane (Fine Art Photography)
Dale creates amazing geometric abstract pieces by recycling all sorts of materials in his processes. He promises to bring some great new inventions on Saturday which will leave you breathless! Jeff Crane has an awesome collection of digitally manipulated photographs depicting all the famous Ft Wayne landmarks- From the County Courthouse to Cindy's diner and everything in between! His newest image taken from the top of the Summit Building downtown on TinCaps opening night has been a huge hit! The edition sizes are limited and they are going fast, so hurry in and get your hands on one!
Where:
Northside Galleries
335 E State Blvd.
Ft Wayne, IN 46805
260.483.6624
www.northsidegalleries.com
Located just west of the intersection of State Blvd. / Spy Run Ave. In the Blue and White Building across from the old Kroger parking lot.
Our extended hours this month are as follows:
Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am-5pm
Tuesday- 10am-3pm
Wednesday 10am-7pm
We are readily available any other time by appointment-
Our phone number is 260.483.6624, but you can catch Charley on his cell phone anytime outside normal hours at 260.750.6530
Northside Galleries was recently voted 2nd best Art Gallery in Ft. Wayne (behind the FWMoA) - In the newspaper's Reader's Choice Awards
Our vision and mission is to bring attention to the amazingly talented artists who reside in Northeastern Indiana.
We also specialize in Custom Framing making us a one stop shop for Fine Art and Custom Picture Framing.
Thank You!!
Charley Shirmeyer
Northside Galleries
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Colorful Glass by Charlotte Behrens & Kathy Hudson
Two women, Kathy Hudson from Texas & Charlotte Behrens from Illinois present their colorful glasswork at The Orchard Gallery. Kathy's work is both functional and decorative...with cheese trays, plates and picture frames. Charlotte's work is more decorative. Freestanding glass sculptures with many colors and abstract patterns. She also makes smaller items that are often used as ornaments, suck as hearts, snowflakes and stars. Prices are reasonable....and with the variety in colors and styles, the glass by either of these women make for nice holiday gifting.
When: November 4-30, 2009
OPEN:
Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat: 10-5
Tues & Thurs: 10-7
Open Sundays: 12-5, Thanksgiving though Christmas.
Where: The Orchard Gallery of Fine Art
6312-A Covington Road
Fort Wayne, IN
260-436-0927
www.theorchardgallery.com
