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Words are not enough to capture the seduction of distraction

Words are not enough to capture the seduction of distraction

Distracts #1, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 33″W x 27″H. To me, the easiest part about carving out a place in the visual arts world is writing something about it. Yet most of my artist colleagues don’t know how I make myself do it on a weekly basis. Easy....
The pretty and the pretty awful make it into Eastside murals

The pretty and the pretty awful make it into Eastside murals

Urban Crow (detail), by Richard Tetrault I have this vague, hippie-era-soaked memory of my brother and I hanging with my father as he painted a wall alongside some other artists. Forty years later I suggested to my brother that he swing by my own mural project last...
The most powerful art might be made of garbage

The most powerful art might be made of garbage

Carlyn Yandle photo The astronomical private art-investor feeding frenzy at prestigious auction houses is light years away from art. It’s a greedy need for prestige, worlds apart from the hand of Picasso or Andy Warhol and, most recently, Francis Bacon and the...
Art trumps ads by just a whisper

Art trumps ads by just a whisper

They say if you want someone’s attention, whisper. Or maybe that was just a line from a Whisper pantyhose commercial back in the ’70s.Whispering to get attention isn’t easy in an image-packed urban landscape where slick marketing messages infiltrate...