Liza Myers' Blog Vox 2009-11-09T20:06:50Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d09e453ffbbe2b/ let your muse come out and play Gopalan Contemporary Art tag:vox.com,2009-11-08:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0123ddbab030860b 2009-11-08T13:39:30Z 2009-11-09T20:06:50Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Gopalan Contemporary opening Shell Chapel

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Orison Swett Marden I'm still waiting for the success part, but as each step is completed, I choose to mark it as a step on th...

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]]> Past, Present, Future tag:vox.com,2009-10-08:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b01240b662b4c860e 2009-10-08T15:15:50Z 2009-10-10T12:18:39Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Liza, Ernest Pittman Seven Days 9-09small

It was so lovely to have a visit with Ernest Pittman, who was driving up to Vermont for a workshop in Waterbury. We met at my show in Castleton, at his request and had a fine dinner at the Blue Cat Bistro. Good conversation, catching up on the l...

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]]> Art, art I want you. tag:vox.com,2009-10-02:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0123dda833a2860b 2009-10-02T11:04:45Z 2009-10-05T14:22:57Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Kidz Aartz Summer Studio program in my studio in BRandon Vermont Working joyfully with clay in Kidz Aartz Afterschool aartz program

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust I just received a great Youtube connection: inspiration and innocence, set to music, a poem about how important the arts are to all of us. A sweet,...

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]]> Cyber connectivity and Inspiration in the Art World tag:vox.com,2009-08-20:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0110168a036d860c 2009-10-01T00:33:07Z 2009-09-30T12:35:52Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Eternal Return by Joseph Raffael

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. Pearl Buck Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, email, texting, cell phones, Skype, hoaxes, cyber art... new technology surrounds us with tools, options, decisions and distractions. Th...

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]]> Moonlight is Sculpture tag:vox.com,2009-09-25:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0123dda5df0c860b 2009-09-25T22:46:02Z 2009-09-26T06:38:36Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Nathanial Hawthorne Moon Dancer IV Clay wall sculpture Small Moonscape Golden Sky

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere -Frank Stella Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.- Michelangelo Moonlight is sculpture. -Nathanial Hawthorne. What a thrilling series of quotations! I've been wor...

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]]> O'Keeffe, Dove, the Clark tag:vox.com,2009-09-07:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b01101692fef8860c 2009-09-11T20:12:53Z 2009-09-21T12:30:55Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Joseph Mallord William Turner O'Keeffe tree DH Lawrence ranch

It's already been several weeks since our wild ride down the back bone of the Taconic Mountains to Williamstown MA, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to see: Circles of Influence, O'Keeffe and Dove. It was wonderful to see old fr...

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]]> Dreams of nakedness tag:vox.com,2009-08-30:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b01101869634f860f 2009-08-30T14:33:15Z 2009-08-30T14:56:14Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Canyon Flower Diva of the Gesture 30" x 31" ceramic Fragile Dawn

Last night I dreamed I was sitting on the lawn of the college where I'm teaching, reading a book, with no shirt on. I was completely comfortable half naked on the lawn, quietly reading an artist's bio-probably De Kooning. Upon awakening, the simp...

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]]> Adjacent Realities tag:vox.com,2009-08-26:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b011018088533860e 2009-08-26T14:29:12Z 2009-08-26T15:38:14Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Becalmed, Rivernest, Champlain Dawn Moon Dancer II

Long is the road from conception to completion. -Moliere You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. -John Calvin I must admit I never thought I would be quoting John Calvin! But I can relate to this quote...

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]]> Listening to my muse tag:vox.com,2009-07-26:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b011017f7317a860e 2009-07-26T01:33:03Z 2009-07-26T23:46:57Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

River Nest FInal River nest, almost but not quite. Plein air painting in Vermont Figure studies in Liza's studio.

”When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.” Henry J. Kaiser I'm hearing that voice loud and clear. I thought it was finished, but it kept calling to me, telling me that it needed more movement and interest in the lower left. Color d...

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]]> Art Transforms and Empowers tag:vox.com,2009-07-11:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b011016717e84860c 2009-07-11T13:15:14Z 2009-09-14T23:17:00Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Lin installing the YDDC Aztec Calendar Mural in the Pera Building in Santa Fe New Mexico

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." --Pearl S. Buck Sometimes, however, circumstance leads the young to attempt the impossible in terrible ways- th...

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