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Written by Stephanie Thompson
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The Yahoo! headlines are a compendium of doom. Bin Laden Claims Airline Bomb Attempt on Christmas. Haiti Government Says 150K Bodies Recovered. Obama’s State of Union to Focus on Jobs. Premier: Israel to Keep Parts of West Bank Forever.
It is not necessary to delve beyond these summaries to know that the world is in trouble, that America has failed in its promise to become a dream-life refuge. John Mayer’s new song, the first one whose words seem to ring terribly true, says it best: “Who Says I Can’t Get Stoned?”
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Read more... [What’s Wrong with America: Who Says I Can’t Get Stoned?]
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Written by David Espinosa
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With the onset of food television, food reality shows and food segments on every national am news program everyone can be a food expert, control their weight and be healthier. Can watching these shows really enlighten us to what is “Good Food”?
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Read more... [Good Food Bad Food]
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Written by Daniel Alonso
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Your gallery, Thrust Projects, represents a program of international artists, many of whom are exhibiting for the first time in New York and the US. What motivated you to reach out to unknown or emerging international artists versus local artists?
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Read more... [Jane Kim]
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Written by Daniel Alonso
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Whether as a child or during the first part of your career, who or what were your earliest artistic influences?
As a child American illustrators fascinated me and realists like N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parish.
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Read more... [David Welker]
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Written by Daniel Alonso
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Whether as a child or during the first part of your career, who or what were your earliest artistic influences?
As a teenager growing up in France, we read and studied the poetry of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine in school. I
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Read more... [Brigitte Engler]
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Written by Daniel Alonso
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Whether as a child or during the first part of your career, who or what were your earliest artistic influences?
My earliest influence as a child was my mother. She was a painter and made beautiful portraits; she was a perfectionist. She used the camera to photograph her subjects and would then paint for hours. Through her I learned to see. At 12 she handed me her
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Read more... [Lisa Ross]
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Written by Daniel Alonso
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Whether as a child or during the first part of your career, who or what were your earliest artistic influences?
I was raised primarily by my Mother and Grandmother – both are painters. They were my first introduction into visual thinking. The
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Read more... [Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen]
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Written by Daniel Alonso
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Whether as a child or during the first part of your career, who or what were your earliest artistic influences?
My first name, Andrio, has some coincidental artistic significance. I was born in 1980, and my parents weren't sure
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Read more... [Andrio Abero]
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Written by Daniel Alonso
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Whether as a child or during the first part of your career, who or what were your earliest artistic influences?
In first grade, I found that I could draw cowboys.
How have those influences carried through to your work today?
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Read more... [Walter Robinson]
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