Joseph Shuldiner at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts
A short film with excerpts of interviews with artist Joseph Shuldiner, during his solo exhibition at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai, California.
Art exhibit at Beatrice Wood Art Center, Ojai, CA. 3/8/08
Openning reception of an art exibition at Beatrice Wood art center in Ojai, CA.
Debra Baxter on Beatrice Wood—Connections: Renwick Gallery
Debra Baxter finds similarities between her work and that of the “super magical” Beatrice Wood, and recounts a memorable exchange at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts that hints at the legendary artist’s claim to the secret to her longevity.
“Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery” highlights the evolution of the craft field as it transitions into a new phase at the hands of contemporary artists, which in some way echoes the communal spirit and ideology of the pioneers of the American Studio Craft Movement in their heyday.
BEATRICE WOOD
VIDEOCERÁMICA # BEATRICE WOOD was born in San Francisco in 1893 and passed away in Ojai, California nine days after her 105th birthday on March 12, 1998. She attributed her longevity to young men and chocolates.
Wood sspent time in Paris during her late teens. Studying art briefly at the Academie Julian, she was soon attracted to the stage and moved to the Comedie Francaise. She returned to the United States in 1914 and joined the French Repertory Theater in New York. While visiting the French composer Edgar Varese in a New York hospital in 1916, she was introduced to Marcel Duchamp. She soon became an intimate friend of the painter and a member of his recherche culturelle clique, which included Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Albert Gleizes, Walt Kuhn, and others. As a contributor to Duchamp's avant-garde magazines, Rogue and the Blindman, she produced drawings and shared editorial space with such luminaries of the day as Gertrude Stein. In 1933, after she purchased a set of six luster plates in Europe, she returned to America and wanted to produce a matching teapot. It was suggested that she make one at the pottery classes of the Hollywood High School. Of course, she would later laugh about that weekend and reminisce about how foolish she was in thinking she could produce a lustre teapot in one weekend. But she was hooked. She began to read everything she could get her hands on concerning ceramics. Around 1938 she studied with Glen Lukens at the USC, and in 1940 with the Austrian potters Gertrud and Otto Natzler. She remembers being the most interested student in [Lukens's] class and certainly the least gifted.... I was not a born craftsman. Many with natural talent do not have to struggle, they ride on easy talent and never soar. But I worked and worked, obsessed with learning. From that time on, Wood developed a personal and uniquely expressive art form with her lusterwares. Her sense of theater is still vividly alive in these works, with their exotic palette of colors and unconventional form. In 1983 the Art Galleries of California State University at Fullerton organized a large retrospective of the artist's sixty-six years of activity as an artist. Remarkably, it was during the artist's nineties that Wood produced some of her finest work including her now signature works, tall complex, multi-volumed chalices in glittering golds, greens, pinks and bronzes. Until shortly before her death she was producing at least two one-woman exhibitions a year and the older she became, the more daring and experimental her work was.
Wood received numerous honors. She was given the Ceramics Symposium Award of the Institute for Ceramic History in 1983 and the outstanding-achievement award of the Women's Caucus for Art in 1987, the year she was made a fellow of both the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and the American Craft Council which also gave her the gold medal on her 100th birthday. She also received the Governor's Award for Art in 1994, and was made a living treasure of California by the state in 1984. Wood took part in hundreds of exhibitions both solo and group since the 1930's ranging from small craft shows, to showing on the Venice Biennale. From 1981 until her death, she was represented by the Garth Clark Gallery. In 1990, her close friend and art historian Francis Naumann organized a major retrospective of her figurative work which appeared at the Oakland Museum and The Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. In 1997 the American Craft Museum organized Beatrice Wood: A Centennial Tribute, a touring exhibition. In 1985 Wood published her autobiography, I Shock Myself . She continued to write, publishing many books. In 1993 she was the subject of an award winning film Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada by Lone Wolf Productions.
Beatrice Wood continued to throw on the wheel until June, 1997. She achieved some of her best lustre works in the 90s. Her last figurative work, Men With Their Wives was completed in December 1996 and is currently in a private collection in California.
Shamanism 801
Photos by John Treur documenting a recent workshop by Professor Richard Flores at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai, California. Music by 801, a brilliant, but short-lived group covering a song by a better-known band of explorers.
2014 World Wood Day- International Woodcarving Exhibition
WWD Exhibition is a showcase for wood artists from 70 countries. They presented their artworks and shared them with the audience and participants in the 2014 World Wood Day. The audience not only could enjoy the beauty of arts, but also learned different cultures and stories from the exhibits created by artists of various backgrounds and cultures.
Flash Tag Art Exhibit at California African-American Museum
Flash Tag Art Exhibit
California African-American Museum
Photographed By: Badir McCleary
Directed and Edited By: Badir McCleary
Music By: Verbz Beats
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PAINTINGS EXHIBITION (MERSEYSIDE ARTIST ALAN MACKAY)
This is a re-upload from my old channel, for some unknown reason, when it was on my old channel, there were hardly any views, comments or reactions, only a couple of subbers made some nice comments, so after some contemplation, I have decided to share it again, because I was probably the only person who recorded this whole collection, before it was sold and separated forever, making this video very special indeed (all credit to the artist Alan Mackay), who didn't paint for profit, he painted for his passion to art, and all these paintings were left to his brother after Alan Mackay sadly passed away, so his brother decided to exhibit them and sell them, so it is a bit of a Van Gough legacy, but this painter really deserves to be recognised as an exceptionally talented painter, who had autism and could see a place without taking photos, and go home and paint from his memory, which is a gift in itself, so please comment and share with as many as possible, there are no political statements in this work, or contravercies, just passion, and memories of the north west area that have been captured in the best possible way, paintings, oil on wood, and like I said, these paintings were all sold to private buyers after this exhibition, so this video is a real treat for anybody who has a passion for art, so enjoy the stroll around the gallery, and give this dude some credit and respect, he was a modest person who probably never thought the public were gonna see these paintings in the future, for me personally, looking at these paintings with the naked eye was one of the best days of my life, and I didn't have to pay a penny either, such a treat in this money driven world, anyway, ENJOY.
Friday Lubina - Fuzzball Dharma
Friday Lubina reading at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts as part of 3 on a Match: Three Poets on Hot Summer's Night , August 19, 2009.