03/26/2008 16:55:41

The water elements are just so powerful..I can almost hear the water falling. :)

03/24/2008 16:46:27

I meant to ask you, have you heard of a gallery in Seattle called The Kirsten Gallery? an online friend of mine suggested I check it out and I actually emailed them today and asked if they would look at my website!

03/24/2008 15:18:30

Barbara thank you for the very nice comment.I'm glad you were able to relate to it.It is the second landscape I've ever done.Just done for a friend who couldn't appreciate abstract art and wanted an original artwork.

03/16/2008 08:42:22

Barbara, love the mystery and beauty of the hiker near the land of waterfalls. Molly

03/13/2008 06:15:58

 Ilove how you take either warm or cool colors and used them predominantly in your work. I like how you mix reality with imagination. I too crate my landscapes from what I remember from Mexico and what I imagen. Beautiful work!

03/02/2008 18:41:31

Thanks for the story and comment.   I took art classes at SFSU, too, less film than printmaking and lots of fun continuing ed. stuff at Fort Mason, which I hear is still going strong. that would have been 84-86.

The vibe at SFAI was definitely more one of anarchy, and the film dept. was, so far I as I could tell, unrelated to anything commercially done in the day.  The individual reigned supreme, which is pretty much what I see is the paradyme in art today.

I will have to remember to keep my box cutter handy in my next teaching gig. 'Attila Albright'.  In some way having a critique is so much better than teachers with the "Yeah, maybe you could be done...do you feel good about your work?"

Good luck with the college search thing. 

02/29/2008 11:00:14

Razored your paintings or films? Wow.

That's like the film I made with staple splices, titled 'Unwatchable Film', responding to some of the stuff I sat watching over the years at SFAI.  The instructor wasn't game and didn't bother to thread it in the 16mm projector.

But at least he didn't carry a razor.  Aren't those outlawed? At least he made a comment!  Some of the teachers I had couldn't have cared in the least, and unless you tried firing a gun in class at the screen you might not ever get a glance.  That was the bad, the ugly; there was good there too.  But that is a longer email.

Perhaps your boyfriend/husband had something else to do in the rainy NW, and all has worked out well for you; for me, I just kept painting and learned to make furniture for a living.

02/29/2008 09:21:13

How about that!  My art background, and undergrad degree is i film.  I found that the ideas I was interested in conveying were narrative, and perhaps that is something you call creating an image you "get through to" as another place.  My films ended up being little pictures you had to view piece by piece.  Eventually cost drove me out of it, and my short foray into the commercial industry was just not my thing.