Liza Myers' Blog

Gopalan Contemporary Art

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:39:30 -0300

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

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:15:50 -0400

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.

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:04:45 -0400

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

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:33:07 -0400

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

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:46:02 -0400

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

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:12:53 -0400

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

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:33:15 -0400

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

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:29:12 -0400

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

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:33:03 -0400

”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

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:15:14 -0400

"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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