cobbling together the artist's life…coaching, acting, photography, writing, and music…
Issues of, you guessed it, faith and art…
The task in my writing today is nothing unusual; it is the mundane work of choosing the timing and pace by which the world I am creating in my play unfolds. When do the revelations come? What is the appropriate cost of the lies these people have told? What is the consequence of my major …
Continue reading "Doing Right By The Work: Choosing This Day"
Rosamund Stone Zander (family therapist) and Benjamin Zander (conductor of the Boston Philharmonic) pointed something out in their book The Art of Possibility that brought me up short in my reading this morning. "A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again." And "the secret is not to …
What can an artist take from the story of what Christians call "The Day of Pentecost?" In Christian teaching, the day of Pentecost is the day on which the Holy Spirit of God first took up residence in the hearts of those who follow Jesus Christ. This same "Spirit of God" is the one who …
And Marty said, “Let there be glue…” And there was glue, applied to icons of the holy, the kitschy, the comic, and the kooky; surreal landscapes featuring damsels and dinosaurs, nudies and nerds, monkeys and moon rockets. Coffee shops are the perfect place to look at art, right? Maybe, but Marty Gordon’s current show at …
Continue reading "Irreverence, Icons, and The Holy: The Collage Art of Marty Gordon"
On the one hand, they take materials in hand and make something. Craft, craft, craft. Depending on their discipline, they maneuver the materials they need (paint, voice, clay, what have you) to create objects, experiences, and ideas that alter something of the way we perceive and navigate our world. On the other hand, sometimes they …
JEFF BERRYMAN 