Peter Schmidt

January 29, 2012 by

Abstract Organic Form

Lately I find myself going back, and back again, to check in on the work of Peter Schmidt. There is just something about his drawings, prints and paintings that keeps calling to me. I like pretty much all of his work… the interiors, landscapes, and his more abstract pieces.

Schmidt’s background is interesting too. He was born in the early ’30s in Berlin, and his family fled from Nazi Germany to England in ’38, finally settling in London during the Blitz. Schmidt intended to become a mathematician, and didn’t start painting until his late 20s. In addition to painting, he went on to study printmaking, photography, film and animation. Schmidt has also published a number of books. I first became aware of Schmidt because of his collaborations with, and album artwork for, musician Brian Eno. Schmidt died suddenly in 1980 of a heart attack.

www.peterschmidtweb.com

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It’s PR, Duh!

January 26, 2012 by

I’m working hard at a career offering freelance PR. In fact, this, plus getting really sick explains my absence from the blog this week. PR is a form of marketing that focuses on getting your work covered in the news. Why should you be doing PR? PR can tell your story more deeply than an ad, make customers feel they know you as an individual and offer a credible endorsement from someone they already trust.

I’ve done PR for 14 years for everything from the Utah Department of Health to art, craft, food, fashion and haunted houses. It’s exciting to build my own business, artduh.com/pr. If you need PR, who you gonna call?

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Fill the Recipe Box Project!

January 24, 2012 by


I have my grandmother’s recipe card box. About 1/3 of the recipe cards inside are blank. I’d like to ask my readers to mail me a 3 by 5 handwritten recipe to add to the box. Any recipe will do – new or old. I’m gonna fill this effing recipe card box up and pass it onto the next generation FULL! Please write your name on the back.

If you want to participate, send me an email at artduh@gmail.com – - cuz I don’t wanna give my home address to just anyone.

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Matisse’s Color

January 22, 2012 by

Red Studio

The Goldfish

Today is a good day for taking a little time and looking at the colors of Henri Matisse. I love, love, love bright shiny colors, and Matisse used color like nobody else.

I’m thinking mostly about his interior scenes and still life paintings. So perfect.

It’s Sunday! Sit back, relax, and look at some work by Matisse.

www.henri-matisse.net

The Window

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My Dead Friends

January 15, 2012 by

Be sure to come on down and see Anna’s artwork at Ulysses! Tonight is the night. You’ll also enjoy dance performances by the 14th Ward, and traditional depression era treats! Yummy!

“My Dead Friends is a show dedicated to the mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers who are now passing the yarn and hook to me and my generation. This show is a message to my sisters: Ready or not, here it comes. If we let the domestic arts die, resurrection seems unlikely at this time.”

Anna West - Artist, Dancer and Small Business Owner

Ulysses

629 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Jan 15 to Feb 19
Wake and Last Rites, Jan 15, 6 to 8 p.m.

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“It Would Be Impossible to Keep House with Only 36 Doilies”

January 12, 2012 by

I’ve been making doilies since high school. Are they old-fashioned? Yes. Out-of-fashion? Never.

Giant doilies will grace the walls of my show. Join me to see them, and so much more.

My Dead Friends
Ulysses
629 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Jan 15 to Feb 19
Wake and Last Rites, Jan 15, 6 to 8 p.m.

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The Nectar of Death

January 10, 2012 by

My first solo show is on Sunday, 6 to 8 pm. I know you want to come see the art, but I know it is WAY more important to you that I have some decent food and drink.

Here’s what we have going.

The food and drink will follow the vintage theme – everything in the show is meant to represent my grandmother’s era, when people cooked, cleaned, kept house, embroidered samplers and in the 40s, everyone was shocked to discover that ladies could, in fact, build weapons.

On the food side, I’m going to prepare my grandmother’s tomato cheese mayo jello mold. I’ve never made a jello mold before. I’ll also be making her patented soda cracker pie, which has GOT to be a depression era recipe. With the state of the economy, I’d probably get good at making pies and other edibles based on soda crackers.

We will also have a few snacks that actually taste good. Grandma’s coconut cream pie is on my list.

On the drink side, we will be serving Keystone for the cowboys in attendance, and  Dead Orange Blossoms (gin and o.j., shaken with ice) for the lovely gentle ladies who would enjoy a nip or two.

Food is art, art is food.

See you on Sunday, and by the way I’m supposed to put tuna in the jello mold, and also make a banana carrot stir fry to prevent strokes. But I just cannot go that far, not even for art.

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Imagination

January 8, 2012 by

Imagination - by Todd Powelson

These last few weeks have been pretty busy and chaotic and I haven’t had a whole lot of time to write anything up. I hope you enjoy this picture instead! It is something I drew a few years ago, but has been on my mind a bit lately.

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Bullet in My Shoulder

January 5, 2012 by

blood running down my vest

For hmm at least four years now I’ve been paying tribute to my cowboy/pioneer heritage by mixing textiles with spent bullet cartridges. It all started with The Bullet Bra – a costume I was asked to make out of industrial materials. If bullets aren’t a useful industrial material, what is?

I became interested in wearing bullets on more than just my bra, and I’m now refurbishing denim cowboy style jackets with bullets. I’m calling this series “Bullet in my Shoulder” after an old Frankie Lane song I listened to as a kid.

I don’t want to give all the pieces away, and in fact, some of them haven’t yet been made. But here is my favorite, a mating of a pioneer girl and an old school cowboy I like to call “Blood Runnin Down My Vest.”

Oh and guess where you can see them and maybe take home one of your very own? The My Dead Friends Show, Ulysses, opening Jan 15.

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New Year’s Resolution Achieved

January 3, 2012 by

In college I worked out on a stair stepper that would proclaim at the end of the workout: “Goal Attained.” It was my favorite part of the day, every single time. I am stoked to be worthy of  the right to scream “Goal Attained” once again. I not only achieved one of last year’s goals. I over achieved the mutha.

One of my 2011 resolutions was to improve my photography skills. I wanted to photograph Utah architecture, which I love, and put together a show based on buildings.

Well, I got my resolution half right. I’ve taken at least 10,000 photographs this year. I’m sure 9,000 of them are crap. I’m very happy to have 1,000 photos that I love.  The part I missed – only about 50 of them are of architecture.

I’ll be showing about 70 of this past year’s photos at “My Dead Friends,” my first solo art exhibit at Ulysees on January 15. I hope you will join us for the wake from 6 to 8 p.m. If you come, you will get to see The Fourteenth Ward, my belly dance company rock out and hear Christian Coleman wail The Blues in memory of my very best friends – the domestic arts. They are dying. Drive through windows, sweat shops and. . . well some misguided aspects of feminism* are nailing the coffin closed.

I am setting a new goal for next year. I want to write a cookbook and photograph my recipes in a way food has not been photographed before. I want to show the photos and recipes in a gallery. I want it to be beautiful.

Hope to see you at “My Dead Friends.”

a poem is a naked person -- bob dylan

a poem is a naked person -- bob dylan

if they say you cannot paint, by all means paint -- van gogh

if they say you cannot paint, by all means paint -- van gogh

* I am a feminist.
** All my photos were taken with cell phones. I love it that they are so technically improper.

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