Thea Schrack

The Affordable Art Fair LA

2012-01-06T09:49:00.000-08:00

Anelle Gandelman Fine Art will be showing my work along with 7 other artists at AAF-LA.

January 18-22, 2012

Booth # B-6

FALL LINE UP

2011-09-11T09:13:00.000-07:00

I feel like San Francisco had record days of fog this summer. For me that means I got to paint extended hours in the greenhouse studio with out over heating. I have never been happier, working into the afternoon hours, and having plenty of time to work on the FALL LINE UP!!!

Opening September 30, 2011

Thea Schrack and Robin Denevan

Julie Nester Gallery

This is a new body of work, that I'm calling "time rushing by", 2x4 feet, panoramic, that I so love, all with a water theme. The meeting of photography and encaustic paint in an abstract manner, the ambiguity, so like life.

October 15, 2011

Art From Within Bernal Heights

Inclusion Gallery

I will NOT be showing at Hunters Point Open Studios (so don't miss the Bernal show above) October 29th and 30th. As always, many other fine studios will be open so please attend.

Art Santa Fe

2011-06-25T13:12:00.001-07:00

My work will be represented at Art Santa Fe July 7-10, 2011 with Linda Fairchild Contemporary Art.

Wish I was going along with all the art!!!

Camera Pudding

2011-06-07T17:14:00.001-07:00

I hate to admit how fun camera apps are, they make us see things a little differently, and thats a good thing, right?

artMRKT San Francisco May 19-22

2011-05-11T16:14:00.000-07:00

San Francisco is hosting 3 art fairs in May. This new work, along with a number of encaustic paintings will be represented at artMRKT with Linda Fairchild Contemporary Art, booth #221. If your interested in going to all the venues here is the low down on each fair at SquareCylinder. Hope to see you there!

Dear Subscribers

2011-04-16T07:21:00.000-07:00

Apologies for that last random email of old posts, I have no idea why it was sent, I did nothing and if you feel the need to unsubscribe I wont take it personally. If it happens again I will shut it down!!!!! Happy Spring. THEA

AAF NEW YORK CITY

2011-04-05T15:12:00.000-07:00

My current work will be represented by Anelle Gandelman Fine Art at AAFNYC.

The Affordable Art Fair New York City

May 5-8th, 2011

Nashville Show at Gallery One

2011-03-13T07:23:00.000-07:00

Write up from Nashville Arts Magazine: I'm thrilled to be showing with Jennifer Bain at Gallery One! Show is up through April 16th.

Nebraska, March 2010

2011-03-03T11:06:00.001-08:00

Revisiting the Sandhill Crane migration in Nebraska, March 2010. The photos were disappointing compared to the actual experience. I had to step away from the work, until winter is upon us again and I think of those flocks. It was the most spiritual experience I have ever had on the job, maybe ever, with a camera around my neck, frozen, sleep deprived. Adversity goes along ways in expanding ones experience. Now a year later I can still here their call!

San Francisco Show and Sale

2011-02-16T16:22:00.000-08:00

Two Thousand Eleven

2011-01-02T15:04:00.000-08:00

I’m posting photos from a winter foray because the recent painting are “undone and burned”! But look what I gleamed this year as a photographer, attempting to become an encaustic painter:

Big is better.

I what to do more painting, then scraping, which is a drag, all that removal only severs me as a correction to failures, if that.

Abstracts appear to be the easy way out, but in reality it’s just the opposite.

It’s ok to paint from a reference photo, especially one of your own.

Subject matter and technique are twin evils to wrestle with daily, content is still in the wings.

What looks good today might not tomorrow and vice versa.

The act of going out “shooting” will always have a huge “fun” factor in it, a thrill that’s hard to find in a static studio.

I love the torch, playing with fire feels so risky.

Still hate acrylic.

Tempted by oil, but would miss the torch.

Happy Two Thousand Eleven!

In Memory of Roads

2010-12-19T19:07:00.000-08:00

Antidote to Winter, a walk down a summer road, inspired by an essay by a fellow blogger Roger Dauti of LE CHEMIN DES GRANDS JARDINS.

Hubble Inspiration

2010-11-30T10:45:00.001-08:00

Is the journey to abstraction through a realistic door? Are all those Hubble space shots REAL? Spirial galaxy M74 is my fav and the inspiration to this new direction. This beautiful mystery is suddenly seductive to me and I want to somehow paint this reaction. Not a literal galaxy but something expansive and alive. I’m still working towards it. Stages of an internal evolution to abstraction……

One Hot Chevy

2010-11-10T18:29:00.000-08:00

Anyone, back seat memories…...highschool….drive inns……? Why I had a need to paint this is as long as my auto biography and I will spare you. The Gold Chevy 20x20 Encaustic Wax and pigment on panel.

San Francisco Fall Open Studios at Hunters Point

2010-10-24T10:00:00.001-07:00

San Francisco Fall Open Studios

Hunters Point Shipyard

Building 101, Studio 1517

October 30th & 31st 11-6

Please join me and all the other artist's for the citywide Open Studio finale!

Elemental Tension-Open Studio Preview

2010-10-19T19:55:00.000-07:00

Elemental Tension is a new print series I'm working on. Premiering in this falls Open Studio in San Francisco-October 30 and 31. Posting more details next week!

Abstract Thinking

2010-09-16T15:42:00.000-07:00

Abstract: I think I’m slowly getting what I like about this, the way of painting, the letting go of something already known. There was a tremendous space that happened when I was working on this piece, where nothing mattered, it didn’t need to turn into “something”. As a friend said “you have crossed over”. Maybe success is not being able to label it, a tittle seams irrelevant.

Next week: International Encaustic Artists Conference in SF. The event is a sell out, numerous lectures, studio tours, book signings. Our Key Note speaker is Christel Dillbohner, whose work I have followed and admired for years.

Redefine

2010-09-02T14:39:00.000-07:00

Dose the vision of yourself as an artist equal the work your doing? I’ve been thinking about this a lot as of late, as I progress (regress) more and more towards painting. I spend countless hours awake at night redefining my work, where I think I want it to go, what technique would better serve a particular problem, then the next day do something totally different. My current vision/dream is large abstracts but the photographer in me keeps screaming, and wants to do small representational work. I’ve got 7 series, going on 8 started all to want end? Partly I hope it will all incarnate into a unified whole somehow, a new “style”. I believe I better understand van Gogh’s frustrations, on many levels. Ah, ha maybe if I start thinking of myself as a strictly representational painter those abstracts will come forth! So, how dose your artistic vision translate itself on the canvas?

Encaustic Art

2010-08-10T06:19:00.000-07:00

Lissa Rankin's much awaited book is out today. I'm one of 60+ artists she interviewed who work in wax. She has worked on it for years, it includes step by step instructions and lots of photographs. Happy painting and congratulations Lissa!

Anelle Gandelman Fine Art

2010-07-26T14:54:00.000-07:00

I am very pleased to announce I now have representation in NY with Anelle Gandelman Fine Art. She has an exciting line up of contemporary artists that I'm excited to be a part of.

Green is a color

2010-07-03T16:45:00.001-07:00

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived-roaming the green, rolling hills of what is now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

Standing Bear (and myself)

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight....the truly wise person is colorblind.

Albert Schweitzer

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which it's loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

My eyes are green. Green is my favorite color-one would never know by looking at my artwork. I think this is a delayed reaction to spring-embracing cadmium greens! It's a difficult color to work with, the shades are endless and can go "off" into unknown ghastly directions. ARE their really more shades of green then blue, is this a trick of nature? Even Kermit the frog from Sesame Street sang "It's not easy being' green". It's so prefect out in the natural world, but we artists find it a challenge to use, as least I do and I've spent decades trying to avoid it. The painting above started out a solid moss green, and ended up mostly white, maybe a reflection of my recent wandering! The patterned moss covered pathway was from the Chinese Garden in Portland.

Luminous Layers

2010-06-09T19:08:00.000-07:00

47th Annual

Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts

Event dates: June 25, 26 & 27 2010

Lake Oswego, Oregon USA

Linda Womack is the curator of this amazing looking upcoming show. Cari Hernandez did the piece called "Lovely Bed" on the program cover above. The show will feature over 60 artists and 160 works of art, I believe it will be the largest Encaustic show on the West Coast to date. I'm honored to be one of the invited artists, showing a number of pieces from the ongoing bird series. Please come if you're in the Portland area.

Souls Door

2010-06-01T13:00:00.000-07:00

Any creative endeavor is channeled,

whether it be music or art or

theoretical science. We have the

capacity to tune in to energies

and convert them into reality

for ourselves.

Frank Alper

In Memory of Ira Wolk whose love of art made it a reality for us all.

Painting, Palette, Photograph

2010-05-06T16:05:00.000-07:00

Were all related here, right? I had never printed the marshy image, but kept thinking about it, for years actually. So yesterday I found it, printed it and did the painting today, another of those studies. I bravely went larger to 12x19. The "abstract" came at the end, I was about to clean the palette-it was glowing in the sunshine, made a few strokes and I sorta love it! I tend to spend a lot of time in my head thinking about painting, rather then doing it. So I set myself a goal to explore a bunch of genres, and see what resinates. Starting with the landscape, then maybe the "beautiful surface", forget the figure, at least for now. Abstract is calling, the real calling is color, the mixing and moving and transformations.

Publishing-worlds apart

2010-05-06T15:25:00.001-07:00

My latest offering from Chronicle Books, I had forgotten the release date, and just noticed it in stores. I shot the images nearly 2 years ago, in the past decade no less, then it went in production for months and shipped overseas for printing. And yes, I almost ruined my camera when that wave crashed over the seawall. Publishing has changed so very much, a lot of projects came to a stand still a few years back, I'm glad this one made it through.

Now, the latest in self publishing: MagCloud, they print your magazine for 20 cents a page, and you can put it up for sale on their site (if you want to, I didn't). This is my latest promo. A friend-thank you- helped me design it last week, got the proof a few days ago, it looked great, copies are ordered. All said and done in a week.