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How art concepts apply to writing

by rosedeniz December 16, 2010 art
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Tweet I remember piling into my intro art and design classes with other sleepy-eyed freshmen to learn how to draw, paint, and critique. We were taught how to see and to talk about a piece objectively, not just what we liked or disliked. We talked about craft and attention to detail. When it came to subjectivity, we […]

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Essential words & Quiet drawings

by rosedeniz November 12, 2010 art
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Tweet Paintings take up wall and storage space. Image files, as I discovered this week haunting my backup files, take up vast amounts of virtual space. Years of making paintings, illustrations, and drawings, and I have thousands of images stored.  Originals. Duplicates. Different scales and formats. I’m aware of the outpouring of images I have to share vs. […]

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Show, don’t tell

by rosedeniz September 15, 2010 art

Tweet Illustration for PAWI writing club Artists tend to know this concept intimately: show, don’t tell. Writers are beseeched to embrace it, but art is all about showing, even when work like Nancy Spero’s The Torture of Women from 1976 includes jarring, typewritten layers of text.  In conversation yesterday with Julie Tallard Johnson, we talked about her book The […]

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Pop culture vs. high art?

by rosedeniz September 2, 2010 art

Tweet I’m a latecomer to the Glee obsession. My August NaNoWriMo writing binge was followed by three days of the first season of Glee with breaks to sleep, eat, shower, and feed my kids. It has become a post-project ritual to dive into entire seasons of shows and catch up on movies I’ve missed. Glee is research, […]

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Who was Lethe Bashar?

by rosedeniz July 29, 2010 art

Tweet I knew him by his pseudonym, Lethe Bashar, but his real name was Chris. In the middle of him editing my short story The Mercy Troupers for Escape into Life, I realized his Twitter name had changed to Chris Al-Aswad.“Who’s Chris?” I asked.“That’s my real name,” he said.Lethe Bashar was the author of Novel of […]

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How do you know what to share?

by rosedeniz June 22, 2010 art

Tweet Yesterday Judith van Praag of Hope Filled Jars asked me if I had artwork hiding anywhere that needed to be seen. Her post about a drawing from her sketchbook being selected for a show on mothering and art at A.I.R Gallery was about how the good work we send off to galleries and editors, the […]

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How do you identify your center?

by rosedeniz June 11, 2010 art

Tweet Ferries and mosques, seagulls and bridges. Quintessential imagery of Istanbul.  In drawings and flashes of ideas, many that remain untapped in Jungian shadows, I explore the reasons I am here and not there. I write and make art to ask questions and explore the answers, not to wear the painter’s hat. Different vehicles, same […]

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An opening in Ankara

by rosedeniz June 4, 2010 art

Tweet Photos from my opening in Ankara on May 31, 2010. Photo credits Sera De Vor, one of the most fantastic and enthusiastic people I’ve ever done an interview with. “American artists share their vision of Turkey” in the Hürriyet Daily News June 5-6, 2010. Monica and me with Thomas Leary, Public Affairs Officer at the US Embassy Thanking the US […]

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Paintings at TAA

by rosedeniz May 26, 2010 art

Tweet I’m pleased to announce that along with photographer Monica Fritz, I am taking part in a two-person exhibition at the Turkish American Society co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy and the TAA in Ankara from Monday, May 31 through June 19. The opening cocktail is from 6:30-8 p.m. on Monday, May 31. I hope to […]

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