HARDWOOD FLR

BORIS OSTREROV

MARN Mentors 2009

Friday, May 1 through Saturday, May 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2009, 5–9pm

Walkers Point Center For the Arts (WPCA)
Milwaukee WI

LOVELY

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Happy Easter

to a very good new friend.

PINES AT 7

WET SOCK

Chaussettes Noires [left]



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I slept on splintered sheets of polysterene foam in an Indiana cornfield.
We ate fried chicken all the way home. That was the best part.

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FELIX FENEON

Novels In Three Lines
- Felix Feneon


What a great little book this is. In his time, it would appear that Mr. Feneon was a remarkable receptor of news--perhaps to a cause greater than what would appear on the surface. Claimed to be the discoverer of Georges Seurat, and the first French publisher of James Joyce.


New York Review Books: NY
Translation and introduction copyright by Luc Sante, 2007

El FIN

Enamel

PHOTOS

PINK DOT

Pink Dot
Sunset Blvd/
Los Angeles CA

LINKN PARK

MILWAUKEE
MITT


















Cost: $1
10.5" x 6".
Mounted on top of steel rod imbedded in 1 sq. foot cement footing. Scotch-guarding extra. Archival Properties: 20 -sec if park is frequented by dogs. Fun, interactive, machine-quilted. Country of Origin: Unknown (tag missing). Slighty worn: scorch marks on business end.

NOTHER QUACKER

ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS

The Crying Light.

2009

Love this cd. love it.
The lead vocalist's voice flutters.


-Sings in a haunting and yet innocent wail.




The cover photo of dancer Kazuo Ohno captures this best--
how I feel when I stub a toe, get a paper cut.

RIVERBEND

- golden gate w/recent works

oH

Los Angeles

0636

Self

PORTRAIT OF FRANK

Portrait of Frank
2008 Woodblock

I rounded a street corner in Haight-Asbury when I spotted him; a young man selling prints. His set-up was simple--an old metal TV tray propped against the proverbial brick wall. I admired his tenacity. Not only were the decisions that he made in his work exemplary, but I walked away happy that I meet him.

BROWN

I feel fortunate for recently meeting Kevin Brown [right] in his gallery- Live Worms, San Francisco CA. It was a pleasure to speak with similar sensibilities and approach to painting.

SANFRANCISCO

Best place to see "Milk".

VERYCOLD

MARTHAHAYDEN.

I love this print for many reasons--foremost, it's a print.




The Model
Martha Hayden
Etching/Aquatint

STUPID

Its the
economy --

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MARY PUHLS

Self portrait w/gorilla
Photomontage c.1995

BURDOCK 5 Release Reading

Friday December 12 7PM
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E Locust Street
FREE -

Started in 2006 by Milwaukee's Keith Gaustad, Burdock magazine received its name from the removable sticker paper that makes up its pages. The fifth issue's focal point is short prose pieces and short poems.



Contributors List

James Blessington
Jim Chapson
Tyler Farrell
Jennifer Kraft
Dolly Lemke
James Liddy
Jonathan Lohr
Joe Reipenhoff
Andrew Terhune
& more.

BLK [detail]

2008

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Art Muscle

I love this shirt; right up there with MOMA







photo courtesy
JAM

JUDITH ANN MORIARTY.

I had a painting instructor tell me not to be afraid to fail. He said that if you are going to make mistakes, make big ones; make them go down in flames. I did. I had a writing instructor who told me the key to writing a convincing argument was to state your ideas clearly she said.






An art critique, just like a plumbing estimate, needs to satisfy a certain amount of criteria before it's ready/understood. Foremost, it's important for the person who is reviewing/estimating to show the how’s and why’s--the bare bones of their argument/bill. It's difficult for words to carry the weight of what one sees, however there are but a few local art critics in Milwaukee who do this well. Here is but one example of a local writer who offers some insight as to her role as an art critic/and advocate.





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.BLACKSHEEPPHOTOGRAPHY

Photos by Lynn Allen
2008