Step right up and get some art...and make a difference while you're at it!

This original artwork of mine, a copy of my book In This Garden, and a copy of Pasticcio Quartz, Issue 12, are among the MANY cool, fun, lovely, and wonderful items being offered in a fundraising auction for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, hosted by my good friend and art comrade, Seth Apter of The Altered Page. I really hope you will consider making a bid - your ❤❤❤ will grow several sizes, I'm tellin' ya! If the bidding for Bundle #5, including the canvas pictured here, goes above $250, I promise I will include several exciting "extras" for the winner...Please support our efforts, and score some swell treats, for yourself or to pass on to your own lucky recipient. And thank you, from the bottom of my heart and the depths of my soul!

The Pulse of Mixed Media: my review on Amazon

It's Alive! (and kicking), March 13, 2012

This review is from: The Pulse of Mixed Media: Secrets and Passions of 100 Artists Revealed (Paperback)http://www.amazon.com/Pulse-Mixed-Media-Passions-Revealed/dp/144031070X/ref=cm_cr-mr-title

Seth Apter's blog-gone-book will be the subject of art talk viral and actual for months to come. Maybe it's inevitable that an artist with a Ph.D in psychology would always want/try to peel the proverbial onion when it comes to his art cohorts and peers, but Seth always takes it a step further and digs ever deeper with questions seeking answers cathartic and confessional. He pushes the limits in such a gently gracious manner - no it's NOT cleverly diabolical! And artists respond. Obstacles, emotions, choices. Secrets, fears, desires, anger. The depths are plumbed. The book serves up 133 artists (and their diverse and wonder-full art) on a gorgeously graphic platter of layout and design. Dozens of questions are answered in more and less detail in the first two sections of the book by 31 featured artists, and the additional (100+) artists are highlighted in the final third section, with responses to still more questions presented statistically by percentage. Danny Gregory, Angela Cartwright, Michelle Ward, Robert Maloney, and Julie Prichard are a few of the fantastic artists Seth has brought together in another deliciously crafted North Light Books publication.

Seth Apter + The Pulse of Mixed Media

Seth's art in Palais, Pasticcio 7

    an excerpt from Seth's Art Array interview in Pasticcio 10       

                  

This is NOT the vehicle that almost ended my life several years ago, merely a charming NYC bike taxi...

What can I say about a guy who has probably done more to support and encourage real community among artists everywhere in the past decade than most people do in a lifetime? Thank you, Seth Apter! Thank you, too, for always willingly giving it up for Pasticcio, even when her editors come begging at the eleventh hour...

And while I'm at it, I probably actually owe you my life...yeah, for that one crazy time you kept me, innocent Westerner that I am, from walking directly in front of a something - what was that anyway, a bus? - coming at me in the heart of New York City. But I digress.

You are not just a fantastic and generous long-distance friend, you are an exemplary artist to your core. I cannot tell you in words expressive enough how truly ecstatic I am for you having just published The Pulse of Mixed Media, a book everyone is going to want for their shelf; a compilation of the astute and reflective questions you put to a crowd of artists absolutely dying to divulge secrets and surprises, dark and intense, funny and light, and the art to expound on them. And thanks, once more, for letting me participate! It was a blast answering your questions, and awfully fun to construct my piece in response to your prompt. Can't hardly wait to party on at Momo Lolo Coffeehouse here on April 26th - did I tell you we'll have live jazz?

Anyway, this is just to say you could not have a bigger fan, nor truer friend, than I. There's just one more thing. Turning it all around, with a question or four for you...Hoping to plunge the depths here...Please get back to us soon; your public awaits, and wants to know:

1) Your (seriously) altered DeLorean has just brought you to the working studio of one of the most evocative and innovative artists of the century. Hmmm, I couldn't really see that date - what year is it anyway, and where in the world are you?

2) You have one day left, and you know it. How will you spend it, and with whom?

3) What smell transports you; to where and when?

4) In the incomparable 1989 baseball movie Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones, as Terence Mann, says,
"They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and  cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces...The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball...This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again." Do you agree? Also, Mets or Yankees?

To see Seth's answers to the questions, please go to the next post ---

Secrets! Passions!

Here's what Seth Apter has to say about his first book,  

The Pulse of Mixed Media, 

which will be released by North Light Books in March 2012:

"Working on this project has been nothing short of phenomenal. 

With just over six months to go, there is still a lot of work to do. 

Right now I am in the midst of my first round of manuscript editing 

and, believe it or not, I am loving every minute of it.

In between all the hard work it takes to birth a book are many peak moments. 

For me, one of these was seeing the cover for the first time. 

And another peak moment is occurring right now in real time:

sharing the cover with you. I think I feel much like a new father 

who sees his child as the most beautiful thing in the world."

PASTICCIO 10!

PASTICCIO 10 is READY!

Digging Deeper: March 14, 2007 There'll be a change in the weather

Seth has offered us another opportunity to dig still further into the archives of our blogs for additional Buried Treasure. While the contents of this post from March of 2007 may not have been deep, it's subject matter certainly was! We were just thawing out after several months of a big snowstorm and since Thursday night my book club comrades will be at my house watching Christmas in Connecticut (1940's, Barbara Stanwyk!) as we celebrate Christmas in July, I thought it would be the perfect thing to re-post. And maybe serve as a cooling refreshment to anyone in the middle of a Heat Wave...

Spring is just around the corner. In fact, it's only a week away. We are so happy to see it beckoning, from the snow crocuses peeking up through frozen ground, to the green aura of the aspen buds. For most of the week we have had windows open to the sky and gone coat free. However, there has been a rumor circulating for several days that we haven't seen the last of THIS (above). Those pictures were taken in my yard after a good deal of melting had occurred.
Fort Collins had 70 days in a row with snow on the ground this winter! Dante was inspired to make the sign by Denver Post photo archives Corina sent to us. They're from the Blizzard of 1913. Brrrrr!This one actually looks kinda familiar --- it's vintage deja vu!

the pulse - chapter three

the pulse --- chapter three
a gathering of artists' VOICEs

Y'all know Seth, over at the altered page, right? Well, he's putting finishing touches on Chapter 3 of The Pulse - his on-line (and TOTALLY BOOKWORTHY) compilation of artist surveys. This time he asks us, among other things, "Can ya ever part with your art?"
The urban distress photograph shown above is one of Seth's luscious New York City series, and it's graphically emblematic of what he gives to each of us, as artists.