New Art Projects 2009-2010

  This Blog is for my blogging friends who wish to see a few of my past, present paintings with a hint for the best future projects.
On my home front, I have years of ideas to sculpt, paint, and assemble. The garage is being transformed into a studio as I write (when I have a long weekend, that is, LOL!)
  My Art is eclectic, my style Surreal. A combination of “Assemblage” of ready-made objects; “Sculpture” mostly bronze or fiberglass; and my favorite Oil and Acrylic painting; all in the same vein as my Womanhouse Kitchen, having a feminine point of view. My subjects are always Surreal and about my personal female experiences and opinions (not always appreciated). Of course, I have painted my dog and cat, these are things we love and as an Artist will always appear in my Art.


Examples of my recent small acrylic paintings: (Excuse bad jpegs)
  This untitled acrylic portrait of my Daughter, in a renaissance iconic Mother Mary style, has a twist. She wears a modern black Hoody with gold trim and is embracing (holding up) all her old boy friends who broke her heart and for whom she still carries the pain. I am the Blue angel.
Another recent one is titled, “Yes, Please Do Explain”, of her youthful attitude towards people who lie to her and her uncanny ability to see through people is the motive for this painting. Though strong, she is as fragile as a Blue Vase.
The Flower represents her constant battle with Love (thus the fallen leaves under the Table with no supports). The stars and spirals are her personal “doodles” appearing on most of her notes.

 

Other examples are of my dreams of which I reproduce upon waking and eventually paint:
  This one is the “Smoke Test”, a masculine way of testing the worth of a product. This painting speaks to women being under constant scrutiny by family and media. She holds the wish ball (Wikipedia symbol too), hoping for a better future. For now she is happy to dream of a better future and ignore the dragon trying to steal her thunder.
The next one is titled “Pearl” is more abstract and in two paintings which can be exhibited separately, but can lose definition. This is about our personal frailty and naivety of our own strength, which can force us to draw a line between those we trust and those we cannot trust or lose our pearl in the golden sands.

 

The two paintings below are incomplete but in transition, like my life:
  They can be displayed together or separately, but once again one without the other loses its full meaning. “Burning Desire” on the right is about once having made a decision to act on a desire that we often sabotage by unfinished outside influences that keep us from expressing our desires to their fullest, hence, the head being cut off at the eyes; our future is often in question but never the drive.
  The “Fight or Flight” painting below left, precedes the burning desire painting since it represents that feeling where we must fight for our self or run away to hide or disappear into our denial, hence, the feet disappearing from their own shadow and the incomplete unsupportive chair (systems that do not support us). The two together represent the Fight or Flight battle we endure daily to survive and meet our needs.

 

The flames are a PhotoShop recreation of the final fire I will eventually paint. I hope to paint better than this appears because of my bad jpegs.

  There are more, but for now I do not wish to bore you with what seems like bragging over my early art, so I will briefly state my future art goals that are a lot more fascinating.

  Currently, my interest in the Feminist Art Movement is still very strong and my preparedness to embark upon new sculpture projects is in the works.  I am seeking grants and to attract financial patrons to assist in my creating a life size bronze statue.  The motive is political and personal; though my copyright won’t allow me to describe it to you as yet; I can tell you the title “Heroines, Martyrs and Victims” ...and the motive.

  My motive is to openly praise the strength and heroism of Islamic women to live and survive in their male dominated world while still managing to fight for few freedoms they are allotted.  Who loving support their families and religion despite those who endure abuses. And, for those who could not endure and died by assassination through a male family member for minor crimes according to social belief or by their own hand, they are my heroines, martyrs and victims. By expressing my own fears that possibility one day I would ever be forced to live that life style--which I could never accept-- is as close to terror as I can get.  So, I honor their struggle and patience to endure; expressing my own inner feelings comes through in this particular statue, I will send photos after the casting and the copyrights are final.   It will be very interesting and so controversial I am creating an A.K.A to protect my Family.

Please accept my grateful appreciation of your interest and hope to build a long friendship with our mutual artistic expression and interest in the Feminist Art Movement. 

The Buying and Selling of an Intern

When companies allow Interns into their studios they aren’t supposed to be the studio ‘lackey’.

Interning is supposed to be a time where free service is offered in exchange for ‘real experience’ not doing menial tasks for a boss that wants to save money on hiring a secretary or coffee go-fer or a business that believes the intern must pay their dues with tasks unrelated to their training.

Companies taking advantage of young Interns are despicable, and quite frankly must be deficit in the compassion department to be a real leader instead of a greedy opportunist.

Opportunists are respected when they break new ground and prove they have the savvy to accomplish the task, but just taking advantage of the economic times to use young interns shows lack of ethical morals in business and personal character that will bring down American business faster than any Stockholder's whim.

How hedonistic business has become, where the Guilds no longer bring young interns under their wings to teach them the ways of excellence in craft and ethics for business. There IS room for every Intern to be led if we just pay attention.

Wasting of young enthusiastic interns has become the norm, soliciting to pay for the right to be an intern for a larger company as we solicit chairs in the Senate, a corrupt business practice.

As Corporations, we are responsible to teach our youth how to excel and contribute to America’s business growth industry. Instead I hear horror stories of jealous co-workers, vagrant supervisors and the buying and selling of intern positions for profit and fun, how crass.

For shame that people have become so disconnected to the right way to conduct business for everyone’s benefit, America needs to be lifted up to higher standards to win this new economic battle. Business must step up without supervision or the need for a ‘new-committee’ to Big Brother us into doing the right thing. We must all agree to treat youthful interns as our most prized pot of gold at the end of the future rainbow instead of seeing them as a black cloud raining on your parade…share the wealth and your skills without giving trade secrets away, teach your co-workers to hold no contempt for interns, and last, teach them that business means ethics or suffer the alternative where you are just teaching what we already know, that it’s a dog-eat-dog world of unethical behavior and shallow greed.

Interns are the next best thing in business and we can’t rely on them learning the ropes that unravel at the slightest tension; especially when we need new leaders to know what and how to do business so that the wealthy won’t have the power to bail us out with interest, and we live in fear of debt…the system must change, NOW.

Business, can you hear this plea? Will you step up and train the next generation to be strong or simply continue to make our youth waste their time and training? Will you be an individual participant in the improving our business future or will you just maintain the status quo?
Shame on us.

Adobe Laid off 10% of Workforce, ya think?

Actually, I am glad they are losing sales. I have purchased the product for years, but when Windows 7 was installed my Photoshop and Illustrator did not function unless I buy the updated versions CS3 or 4 or 5. Yet, my much older version Photoshop 7 worked, go figure!
When I called Adobe support they told me that because my product was a CS and not a CS3 or 4 they could not longer give tech support; and Microsoft will not give tech support as well. I would be forced to buy new versions of the software, which appears to be a Bait and Switch tactic to force users to buy the updates. Users are not that stupid.
During the last five years my Daughter used all the same software with one Apple notebook to my three PC's, which did not function properly and caused a lot of lost projects for my clients; do I feel like a BOZO, sure; and I will move over to Apple computer today.
I have lost faith in Adobe products and PC systems over these problems; I am fed up, and will switch computers and software.
What is wrong with these PC business people? Money is more important than people, so now they pay the price of failed business...glad to see some justice being done.
I am so glad to see this, maybe they will rethink their problem instead of trying to force people to buy, buy, buy!

Although according to the business formulas, they have to expand 20% each year to stay in business and I believe this is the cause of product failures, having to buy every few years to function...I cannot believe that business can continue to force people to do this, some must, especially big business, because they run on PC's. Although most stayed with XP while Vista ruined so many users faith in the products.

Now, is Windows 7 going to improve business or force them to switch to Apple as well?

I hope so.

Artist Beware of Trojan Horses bearing FREE exposure gifts

A recent gallery tour revealed a few flaws in how some ‘big corporate companies’ can really mess up an already fragile artist ego with the hype for free exposure.

Case in hand; we joined a gallery tour via invitation complete with fine print and well intentioned guarantees that came with a brand name and credible background from a larger corp. We were grateful for the ‘high profile’ name brand coverage of our Art touring for an entire month, wow. We delivered and waited for the first show.

The street fair gallery was awkward, and really wasn’t setup until noon. The fair was about ‘recycling’ and the gallery booth was completely recycled materials with our art hanging upon metal sheets on paper rolls. Without revealing the actual brand name or naming names, see the photo.

This was a start, we were patient and waited for the usual coverage, news releases or even an article…what we got was a link to their site with no reference to any of the artist’s or reps for the artists. A blogging site where we only talked to each other, the general public was not aware of us. The show became anonymous, a walk-through outside gallery booth without the postcards or usual advertising to draw the crowds or the sales.

Frankly, for such a big news corp. covered in classifieds and worldwide newspaper savvy, they simply dropped the ball in favor of a new brand printed zine in a recycled booth (supposed to appeal to a younger generation), and never once published the artists names or photos to the general public with larger newspaper subscribers.

We eventually had to wait while the tour went from street fair to street fair including cancelled shows and finally to a fashion show side booth; where we finally said, enough! Still anonymous, we grabbed our free show artwork and left. The art had minor damage, but we now understood who we were dealing with and just left it at that. The fine print will obviously disavow our claims, so we make none…for now. We wait until they find some ‘ego’ problem with us pulling out one day early since we had a REAL gallery show to deliver our Art, and to blog about our experience. Meanwhile we wait.

Optimistically, they will just forget us as we will forget them and chock it up to a bad experience and ‘never again’ sign a fine print contract or realize that nothing good is ever FREE especially from big corporations thinking only for their own product!

“Artist beware Trojan Horses bearing FREE exposure Gifts!”

Kaylee Frazier, Fashion Designer; A New Spring Show!

"FIT 2009 Fashion Week in NYC"

Kaylee Frazier, an FIT Fashion Designer graduate, is so inspired by Esul Walker's colorful exciting Artwork, that her choice for the "2009 FIT Fashion Show" (caution, spoiler alert for those attending the show), is a slender classic ottoman knit dress in muted purple (left dress), with a multi-colored shoulder wrap reimaged from one of Esul's early artworks (see below).

This combination has classic styling with an exciting splash of color versatile for all day wear, and then accessorized for an evening outing, perhaps to an Esul Walker showing in Greenwich Village?


Esul's digital art transforms easily with the new advanced knitting machines coming out of Milan, Italy's knit manufacturing industry , and with this type of versatility these colorful patterns will become more available for knitwear in US markets.

The show promises more excitement than usual this year, and we believe Kaylee Frazier and Esul Walker are the inspiration, see you there!

Contact Kaylee Frazier at sf2sf2fp@gmail.com and let her know what you think about her new Spring collection, and collect a few for yourself!

To view more recent work by Esul Walker go to "frazierportfolio.com", click on "A Poet's Gallery" for an exciting presentation.

Esul Walker's Opus

An Artist Opus, Ahead of His Time

Esul Walker is as complicated a person as he is an artist, a multi-faceted educated thinker; with a large and robust physical stature accompanied by a bellowing voice, which he uses in his poetry readings.

Esul's opus has the same vitality, and playfulness without boundaries taking you beyond your own command of understanding space not as void but filled with energy, color, and wit. Esul has moved beyond himself, stepped outside the box, and defined his experience of mind and physical presence through his expressive art. His comprehensive self knowledge is comfortable in the abstract with a vulnerable but concrete hold on his own reality.

Few have conquered the inner self with such distinction. Artists such as Salvador Dali or Jackson Pollack's outer reality was so indistinct that the inner world became the boundary where questions were posed and answered in art in defense of their only acceptable existence, their inner worlds are so ahead of time that we are still exploring with enthusiasm.

When I view an exhibition I see his interpretation of our physical world of life between concept and reality, void versus mass, dream and fantasy, he makes me want to explore again with renewed childlike vision. A world I can play in and enjoy while I journey through his landscapes of bright color, intelligent forms and fluent poetic language.

Esul Walker is an artist for the twenty-first century; take time to view his artwork and discover the power of his self realized expression within his fine art prints.

Visit the gallery presentation and more: www.frazierportfolio.com to see his wonderful work and awards from Europe, who recognize something new and exciting in this new American Artist.

An intro to ART et al

Our first blog!

This brings all the anxiety and thrill of the internet right into our studio where we hope to entertain and open some minds to the beauty of Digital Fine Art and a few paintings and sculptures we create as artists in residence.

Once we setup our blog site you can view more of our work and we can begin blogging about ART et al. We can't wait to begin this adventure.

SF2FP