{"id":11211,"date":"2011-12-07T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2012-04-07T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T18:56:58","slug":"artists-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/artists-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists’ Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally able to get back to painting again after a couple of weeks of no reading, blogging or painting because of a second retinal tear surgery. It’s a huge relief to be working again – next week I’ll be able to swim for the first time since mid October. That was possibly the hardest habit to interrupt.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking lately about building a separate studio in the backyard. The storage unit down the road won’t do as a live\/work space, and I need to relocate my paintings here anyway, as a trade for my looming doctors’ bills. The space houses large paintings that I still have in my possession – ambitious endeavors from the mid ’90’s. I love working on a big canvas, but there’s no room for them in the house unless I sell off the furniture.<\/p>\n

In my searches for ideas, here are some spaces I’m fantasizing about.<\/p>\n

This post<\/a> had a list of many studios, I like Judy Pfaff’s compound the best, based in Tivoli, NY, near where she is co-chair of the studio arts program at Bard College. One of her spaces looks like the interior of an airport hangar. This video<\/a> notes her exclamation that ‘you have to have a lot of space!’.<\/p>\n

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Picasso and one of \u00c2\u00a0his muses. I wonder if that’s Bardot…<\/p>\n

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Willem and Elaine deKooning. King and Queen of the castle.<\/p>\n

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The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans. He was thrown out of every academy he attended.<\/p>\n

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A 1957 photo by Loomis Dean<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for Life Magazine of Joan Mitchell in a Paris studio…and her pastel box, with a shot of her studio wall by another well known photographer, David Seidner<\/a>. We can see postcards of Kline, Motherwell and Van Gogh on her wall, along with animal prints. I need to get his book, Artists at Work.<\/span><\/p>\n

and this blog<\/a> had some great shots of Robert Motherwell’s and Helen Franthaler’s studios:<\/p>\n

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Frankenthaler and Motherwell’s NYC apartment, 1967.\u00c2\u00a0Captions from an Art in America article of the same year called\u00c2\u00a0“Artists as Collectors”<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Living room in Mr. and Mrs. Robert Motherwell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brownstone, with Mrs. Motherwell (painter Helen Frankenthaler) seated at far end of room. A Mark Rothko oil hangs over the fireplace. \u00c2\u00a0….The large blue and white painting is Hlen Frankenthaler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122sBlue Tide, 1964. On the lamp stand next to the sofa is Jacques Lipchitz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bronze study for Ploumanach. Above the sofa are two paintings by Motherwell:\u00c2\u00a0America Cup, 1964, and Figure 4 with a Blue Stripe, 1966. Among the objects on the coffee table are bronzes by Rodin (left) and Matisse (right). The painting on the right wall is Motherwell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0The Homely Protestant, 1948.<\/em><\/p>\n

Porthmeor Studios in the UK reminds me of some of Atlanta’s old warehouse spaces.<\/p>\n

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The artist John Emanuel in his studio at Porthmeor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michigan based painter\u00c2\u00a0Stephen Duren<\/a>, recipient of an Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant, in his studio that looks like a large barn.<\/p>\n

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I just liked this shot of a young Agnes Martin.<\/p>\n

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Mark Rothko in his East Hampton, NY studio – 1964. Photo by Hans Namuth, courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute.<\/p>\n

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Sigmar Polke’s studio in Cologne, Germany. A 2007 NY Times article<\/a> states that he was ‘known to go for months without answering his phone, opening his mail or allowing visitors into his studio’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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An interesting project called ‘Emergency Response’<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by the artist Paul Villinski in response to Hurricane Katrina.\u00c2\u00a0A mobile trailer outfitted as a temporary green art studio that he situated in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans for eleven weeks in 2006.<\/p>\n

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My own studio is about 10′ x 20′ long with a tiled floor and a lot of natural light. Functional, but a large barn would be ideal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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