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"Paintings
must be looked at and looked at and looked at… No writing, no talking, no singing, no
dancing will explain them."
- Charles
Demuth |
"What
is sculpture? What is painting? Everyone clings to old-fashioned ideas and outworn
definitions, as if it were not precisely the role of the artist to provide new ones."
- Pablo Picasso |
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| ARTIST'S STATEMENT - Art
& the Audience |
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I think a falsely romanticized notion
exists about artists, the one about struggling with one's art somewhere far removed from
society, in a garret or ivory tower - alone. The truth of it is, we need feedback, we need
an audience, so that we can complete the loop of the creative process. I know that for
myself, the viewer's response to my work makes a significant contribution to my continued
growth as an artist. Presenting my work in a gallery setting, whether virtual or real, is
a way to assure that kind of feedback.
Listed below are several gallery experiences. Your
comments and questions and reactions to my work are invaluable. It doesn't change what I
do - and by that I mean I don't adapt my style or my subject matter to meet someone else's
preferences or expectations - my work and my vision are still my own. But communicating
with viewers, with my audience, is part of what art's all about.
You certainly don't have to have any kind of specialized
training to react to art, although this is a question I get all the time. Art should
grab you emotionally and ultimately make you think or feel - positively or otherwise,
that's fine ... but if you're indifferent about the work, then I haven't connected with
you.
You may not see what I see and you don't have to
understand my vision in order to respond to my work (or any artwork). You don't have to
say you like something in order to please the artist - in fact, it may be a higher
compliment to say that you're disturbed by a particular piece of art, for the artist wants
to reach that inner core you may not reveal in any other way.
This is a starting point for further explorations - I
definitely see making art and experiencing art as a journey on a two-way street and I
invite you to share your reactions, concerns, questions about what you find here, not only
on these specific pages, but throughout the site. I look forward to the dialogue. |
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the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in
contact with the external world." - Marcel Duchamp |
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| The Art of Making
Opera |
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Selected images from "The
Art of Making Opera"
including portraits from the book as well as
the photographer's current work The Photo Factory
Gallery - San Diego, CA
April 4 - May 30, 1998 |
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| arte per la musica |
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Photographic portraits in black
& white from the artist's documentary work with San Diego Opera Taber Mandros Exhibition Space
San Diego, CA
January 21 - March 10, 1998 |
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| Picture This! A Night
at the Opera |
| Works in progress from the
forthcoming book "The Art of Making Opera." La Vae Gallery
La Mesa, CA
September 19 - October 3, 1997 |
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| Inside the Music |
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The Photo Factory Gallery - San
Diego, CA August 29 - September 14, 1997 |
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| Off the Highway |
| An exhibit by members
of the AOL Fine Art Discussion Board, cyber-curated by Mark Sink. Rule Modern & Contemporary
Denver, CO
January 20 - February 5, 1995
David Floria Gallery
Aspen, CO
March 1995
Shockoe Bottom Arts Center
Chester, VA
1997, 1998 |
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| a fantasy life of the
artist ... on paper, anyway |
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| Works in and on paper - ML Hart's first solo
show La Vae Gallery - La Mesa, CA
February 3 - 25, 1995 |
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The World's Women
On-Line
United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women |
 The World's Women On-Line! is
an electronic art networking project that was incorporated into activities surrounding the
United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China
August 30 to September 15, 1995.
Utilizing the Internet as a global exhibition format,
attention will focus on the challenge of bringing the vast resource of women's experience
and culture into the rapidly developing field of information technology.
Along with the Internet sites around the world, two key centers for public display and
communication will be electronic media walls located at the UN Conference in Beijing and
the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. A video also entitled
"The World's Women On-Line!" will be programmed into both media walls. Internet
transmissions of imagery and text by women artists will be received and intermingled with
the video on the wall.
ML Hart's paperwork "Claire de Femme" is a part of this
online and video-wall presentation. You can see it along with the rest of the artists'
works by clicking on the logo above, or visit the WebGallery
for more detail. |
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| the sight |
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| Since 1996, the name thesight
has designated a web gallery displaying the current visions of a group of online
photographers. Images, articles, message boards and information are contained within
the website. In the beginning, there were 20+ photographers from across the U.S.... now in
its sixth year, the group is much larger, pulled from an international base. We artist/photographers met - and meet - in a way that was not
possible until just a few years ago, in cyberspace, via the Fine Art Board in the Kodak
Photography Forum on AmericaOnline and on the boards at thesight.
ML Hart has exhibited her jazz and opera portraits on thesight from 1996 to the present.
Cyber-curated by Mark Sink in Denver; the website and
catalogue are designed and executed by Stephen F. Procko in Miami. |
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