The Visuals: Lee Steele

LQM Gallery: Portraiture workshop

Lee — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:32:08 +0000

A workshop in New London will help artists develop their portraiture skills. Participants will work with elements of line, mark, shape, light, value, proportion and perspective. Anatomical structure and forms in relationship will be emphasized. Click for complete details of the workshop. This is an intermediate level course led by instructor Qimin Liu of Eastern [...]

Call for artists: SameSex returns to City Lights

Lee — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:06:41 +0000

City Lights Gallery is issuing a “call for artists” to particpate in its second “SameSex” show, a gay art exhibit scheduled for late spring. Which, of course, begs the perennial question, What is gay art? That’s up to the artist. “We are intentionally not providing a specific description of this theme, thus encouraging artists who [...]

BACC: “Character Development” by kHhyal™

Lee — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:27:44 +0000

kHhyal™ — that’s small k, big H, with a trademark sign at the end — is a Black Rock artist who you could describe in film terms: Character driven. And it’s in Hollywood where her own artistic development took place. As a young child of three or so, my imagination conjured up a series of characters that appeared [...]

Update: The Knowlton Street collective collected at 305K

Lee — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:13:54 +0000

We have more news about tomorrow’s opening at Knowlton Street, and a sneak peek image. In the past year the Artist of 305 Knowlton street have amassed a body of work individually and as a group. The collective that has formed organically here in the building has put together a strong show of mostly recent works. [...]

Cherokee: Now in more than 1 font

Lee — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:33:57 +0000

For the first time in its history the Cherokee Nation has more than one font to express its native language in written form, thanks to design help from Gary Munch, an award-winning letterpress designer who teaches at University of Bridgeport Shintaro Akatsu School of Design. Munch’s contributions, unveiled recently and now being put to use [...]

If art isn’t dead, maybe it’s just drawing that died

Lee — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:31:26 +0000

Hundreds attended at the Yale School of Architecture’s symposium, “Is Drawing Dead?” Was it because everyone loves a funeral? Let’s hope not. The symposium consisted of a mix of presentations and debates regarding the historic significance of drawing; its visceral effect on author and viewer; its potential to make unimagined realms of experience accessible; and [...]

Rex Prescott Walden conjures “Italy” at Alvarez Gallery

Lee — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:58:49 +0000

Guilford artist Rex Prescott Walden’s solo show, “To Italy,” evokes not just landscape, but the country’s maritime past. Walden’s collage from maps, charts and found objects does the trick. Walden hopes to “set the viewer off on a journey, maybe to a place he or she has never been before,” he told Pulse. “I like to [...]

Five newspapers named World’s Best Designed

Lee — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:34:55 +0000

SND 33 officially draws to a close today, and I get to go home, because the judges have finally decided. I got to witness the entire judging process as I blogged everyone’s progress. What an honor to hear ongoing critiques from five judges, at the top of their game, representing different regions and points of [...]

Franklin Street: Video art in ‘Heavy Rotation’

Lee — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:01:59 +0000

“Heavy Rotation,” a three-week showcase of emerging trends in contemporary video art is under way at Franklin Street Works. Beginning on Friday, Feb. 24 and closing on March 16, this ambitious project consists of four “mini exhibitions,” each lasting four days, and each reflecting different themes. Through multiple, short-lived shows, Heavy Rotation aims to provide [...]

Knowton Street artists’ work on view at 305K

Lee — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:22:57 +0000

In the past year the artists of 305 Knowlton Street have been very busy! They have amassed a body of work individually and as a group. The collective that has formed organically in the building has put together a strong show of mostly recent works. Among them: Imaginative landscapes by Herm Freeman, selected works of [...]