BlueBee Magazine, Volume No.5 Hyacinth, highlights “North East, Day 3” 

The BlueBee Magazine, Hyacinth, highlight is humbling and exciting because the magazine is editorially led. 80% to 90% of all features are editorially and not paid for and fellow artists collectively curate the content of the magazine. 

Acceptance and publication

One thing I really miss about moving from my hometown of Denver, Colorado, is a stable artist community. Where I currently live the artist community is sparse. As a result, I pursued discovering a new online support system through worldwide open calls. When Stefan’s acceptance email arrived, I was struggling where to find like-minded people. 

“Our featured artists are all brilliant minds, and it’s great to see how different artists approach their artistic expressions in different ways. Topics range from the thought that capitalism has widened modern-day slavery, to the human union with nature, and to initially captured fragments of reality,” BlueBee website. 

Although I am not a featured artist I strive and work toward being featured and as a result showing work in their innovative gallery. 

Discover incredible artists through BlueBee gallery and magazine.

We are keen to support Emerging and Raising Artists from around the world. Give them a platform to present a small glimpse of their artistic work. And isn’t there always room for another inspirational collection of visual soul food.

You can read a portion of the magazine here. I suggest you purchase a physical copy from their website. This way you can support an innovative approach to serving the world wide community through art. 

Visit the BlueBee Website 

Thank you BlueBee (Stefan) for believing in this body of work.

Stefan and the team at Bluebee are good people bringing a holistic artist led approach to the world we now live. I’m happy to be recognized, even slightly, with this collection of artists.  

Photograph of Bluebee magazine by Stefan. 

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Post-COVID-19 Era exhibition is held virtually this year. Independent & Image Art Space, located in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, China, accepted my submissions to their group exhibition, Post-COVID-19 Era.

Independent & Image Art Space statement

“In the 21st century, the outbreak of the COVID-19 has wholly disrupted mankind’s usual order of life and state of survival. Its influence continues to expand, and the changes caused in all aspects will become more and more prominent.”

The future is here

“In the post-COVID-19 era, what kind of society will we live in? 15 artists from all over the world use art to express their views and see our relationship with the world from their own perspectives.”

Artists

Angelika Prapa, Ann Mechelinck, Chenyu Lin, Doug Winter, Federico Alcaro, Fernando Colón-González, Heesun Park, Ihor Gnativ, Ines Tolentino, Nick May, Panto Trivkovic, Kaoru Shibuta, Carve Stone, Tomas Lagūnavičius, Tracy Penn

Independent & Image Art Space presented the group exhibition “Post-COVID-19 Era” in a virtual environment. The exhibition was featured on two on-line art spaces, Artsy and Artland.

To visit the virtual gallery and experience the incredible work of my artist brothers and sisters point your cursor here.

About Independent & Image Art Space

Founded in 2008, Independent & Image Art Space is located in 501 Artz Base, which is the most important art zone in Chongqing, next door to one of China’s top art university — Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

Independent & Image Art Space has been paying close attention to the development of Chinese and international contemporary art. With an open attitude towards the global art scene and unique art vision, Independent & Image Art Space endeavors to participate in the practices of Chinese contemporary art development, especially to improve a deeper understanding of contemporary art in our society.

“During the years, we have held numerous solo and group exhibitions for our artists as well as international cultural exchange events, displaying the artworks of photography, painting, sculpture, installation, new media art, etc. We present during the exhibitions related thematic lectures, seminars and workshops.“

后新冠时代
2020年9月26日-10月24日，独立映像艺术空间推出展览《后新冠时代》。
对于21世纪的人类，新冠肺炎疫情的爆发彻底打乱了正常的生活秩序和生存状态。它的影响持续扩大，在方方面面引发的变化将会越来越凸显。
未来即在眼前。后新冠时代，我们将生活在怎样的社会里？来自全球的15位艺术家，用艺术表达各自的看法，用各自的视角看待我们与世界的关系。
参展艺术家：安杰利卡·普拉帕 Angelika Prapa，安·梅赫林克 Ann Mechelinck，阿蔺 Chenyu Lin，道格·温特 Doug Winter，费德里科·阿尔卡罗 Federico Alcaro，费尔南多·科隆·冈萨雷斯 Fernando Colón-González，朴熙善 Heesun Park，伊霍尔·格纳蒂夫 Ihor Gnativ，伊内斯·托伦蒂诺 Ines Tolentino，尼克·梅 Nick May，潘托·特里夫科维奇 Panto Trivkovic，涉田薰 Kaoru Shibuta，刻石 Carve Stone，托马斯·拉古纳维奇 Tomas Lagūnavičius，特雷西·佩恩 Tracy Penn

Italian Art Collector Concettotimpani, known as Luca Timpani, acquired and artists proof of my abstract artwork “Light inside light, Reflection #7” for his #Concettotimpani project.

About Luca and the Concettotimpani project

Luca Timpani is a lawyer specializing in copyright and protection of intellectual property in Rome. He has a long passion for art but just got his foot in the collecting scene. Luca started collecting in 2010 and is already one of the most loved figures on social media. Especially through his Instagram @concettotimpani! 

In this online-to-offline world, Luca developed his own #concettotimpani project. An interactive and dynamic means of art sponsorship based on social networks. Enhancing lesser known artists’ visibility and finding them a potential audience. His collection is displayed around his home, the appropriately named: “Salotto Timpani”, Timpani’s Lounge. 

How my work wound up in Italy 

Luca saw my abstract photographic work through Instagram and messaged me about one of my pieces acquired for his collection in the @concettotimpani salon.

We exchanged email and he explained that the project aims to sponsor more and less famous authors, in order to help the latter to have visibility and potential customers, arising from the audience attracted by the first, “The artist are very happy, and so am I.” How could I not want to be part of this incredible collection or work that includes Damien Hirst, Mario Schifano, Taner Ceylan, K-Narf, David LaChapelle, Pietro Ruffo, Lucio Fontana

The philosophy 

To further get know him and the project Luca sent me an interview he did on the Larry’s List website. What really spoke to me and engaged me to send work to Concettotimpani was how Luca answered this question.

Would you ever consider showing your collection to the public?
For now, I want to keep all the work for me and for my friends. They belong to me, and I want to enjoy them every morning when I wake up. 

I really believe in living with artwork. It’s potential to relax, energize and hold the space and influence the overall mood of the room. I don’t want my work to wind up in storage and locked away in a museum basement like a hostage. Artwork is for living and enjoying daily, as Luca said “I want to enjoy them every morning when I wake up.”  IConcettotimpani

Read the entire Larry’s List interview with Luca here.

Visit the Concettotimpani website  

Light Inside Light, Day 7

 

#concettotimpani | Luca Timpani | Art Influencer

 

The USPS Art Project is a mail art / artist collaboration project created by Christina Massey. It’s free and open for anyone who wants to participate. The goal is for unique collaborative artworks to be created, allowing the artists to establish deeper connections with others while practicing social distancing. In doing so, this helps the financially struggling USPS by sending and receiving packages. The finished artworks are shared online on the @uspsartproject social media accounts. Click here to participate.

Hundreds of artists have joined in the project, ranging from sculpture to painting, drawing, mixed media, fiber art and more. The artists now have the opportunity to submit their collaborations for several exhibition opportunities. A hybrid traveling exhibition / theme exhibition with locations and dates secured at four venues thus far. This is a non-juried exhibition; artworks are accepted on a rolling submission basis until capacity is reached at each respective exhibition space. Artists who exceed a location’s capacity have the option to enter into the following location.

Please help support the shipping expenses of the project between venues and for return shipment of artworks by making a donation to the GoFundMe page. This helps to ensure no one gallery is over burdened by shipping expenses, and donations go right back into supporting the US Post Office by purchasing more services.

My love for the USPS

The US Postal service holds a special place in my heart. When I was a boy our mailman, “Howie” would arrive every day with a smile. He’d hand down the mail from his cool looking red-white-and-blue mail truck and give me a few rubber bands, paperclips and white mailing label stickers. I loved office supplies, I still do. I was a strange kid, but I used the rubber bands and paper clips on my inventions of paper airplanes and other flying machines. Howie the mailman was a positive part of our community. I’d often see him hop off his truck to help a neighbor or a kid like me with their bike or put a rogue sprinkler back on track.

Please consider donating to help save an institution that’s been hobbled and used as a political pawn by the bureaucracy of the US government.

The process and progression of creating the artwork

I connected with BloodyKnucklesArt via Instagram and they sent a piece of artwork for the collaboration. This very cool textured ripped up strips of paper glued to cardboard backing arrived in a bright yellow green envelope.

The texture of this piece is incredible and it was perfect. Because their name is BloodyKnuckles I decided to use hands for the collaboration. I photographed their artwork and using blend modes in photoshop and some masking our artwork conjoined as was born. I have posted the image progression below. We collectively came us with the title, “Winter Bloody Knuckles in Sunlight.”

The artwork inspired stamp

I made a mock up of a forever postage stamp for the project, just for fun, to see how our work might look as a US postage stamp.

The work is now in Dallas, Texas at Sunset Art Studios and will travel to Art Gym Denver, in Denver, Colorado. I really enjoyed collaborating with BloodyKnuckles and The USPS Art Project in making artwork and standing in support of the United States Postal Service.

Virtual Steinbeck Country Global Festival accepted my abstract image, Northeast,Day 13, for their annual festival. During the pandemic although things are mixed and many changes abound the Steinbeck Museum held their show virtually. The exhibit is housed in the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California. The virtual aspect allows for people all over the world to attend and be influenced by the words and life of author John Steinbeck. The photographic image the the show reminds me of the opening line Of Mice and Men, “A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hill-side bank and runs deep and green.”

The Exhibition is virtual

Making a virtue of necessity, officials at the National Steinbeck Center have announced that the August 1-2, 2020 Steinbeck Country Global Festival will move online, motivated by COVID-19 and the need to think globally while acting locally to support the arts in John Steinbeck’s home town of Salinas, California. An annual event for more than a quarter of a century, the festival has experimented with dates, formats, and marketing strategies in the past, all in an effort to engage two contrasting constituencies—the multicultural community of Cannery Row and California’s Central Coast; fans of Steinbeck’s fiction from other states and countries—in honoring the famous local author who attracted the latter during his life by celebrating the former in his work. To visit the please click this link.

About John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Steinbeck dropped out of college and worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer. His works often dealt with social and economic issues. His 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Read more about hime here.

How to purchase the work

The work above is available for sale. Living with this photograph will inspire your thoughts to wander and drift into a meditative relaxation. How do you put a price tag on this type of daily connection? To purchase please send me a note through the contact form.

Update: Permanent Collection

This work is in the permanent collection of the Steinbeck Center.