Sunday, June 25, 2017
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Curatorial Project - PORTALS: Opening Reception
Thanks to everyone who came out for the opening reception of PORTALS at ACS Gallery! The exhibition will be up for the next two months with a closing reception on July 21st. PORTALS is my first curatorial project: a group show featuring 25 works by 9 artists from across the country. For more information and additional images from the show, please visit my Facebook page (Samantha Haring Art) or sign up for my studio e-newsletter.
Featured artists:
Jennifer Cronin
Sarvin Haghighi
Tyler Hennings
Maggie Hubbard
Joe Morzuch
Sean Oswald
Scott Ramming
Emil Robinson
Sara Willadsen
Sunday, June 11, 2017
PORTALS
Save the date!
PORTALS
a group exhibition at ACS Gallery
curated by Samantha Haring
Opening: June 16, 2017
Art transports us from our everyday lives into worlds unknown. Images have the unique ability to take us out of ourselves and show us something new. This exhibition examines the power of place in artwork through a variety of media. Whether abstract or representational, these pieces create windows into other worlds as seen, imagined, or envisioned by the artists.
Exhibiting artists:
Sunday, June 4, 2017
More on Albers: Despite Straight Lines
Easy – to know
that diamonds – are precious.
Good – to learn
that rubies – have depth,
but more – to see
that pebbles – are miraculous.
-Josef Albers (Despite Straight Lines, page 82)
To design is
to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control.
In short it embraces
all means opposing disorder and accident.
Therefore it signifies
a human need
and qualifies man's
thinking and doing.
- Josef Albers (page 75)
"Rapid motion within seemingly stable systems has changed our daily way of life as well as our inner imagery. We sit in a car or in a plane while the landscape slips by. Rocks change their shape, rivers and roads change their course relative to our eyes. Facades rise while we approach, recede and decline while we go on. Matter, the matrix of being, has become a function of energy and its dynamic and infinite transformations.
This, then, is the world out of which the work of Albers grows and can present to us the relativity of our most basic experiences. Forced to test again and again all that we see, we learn to see more."
- Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines by Francois Bucher (page 57)
Learning to see more... that's what it comes down to, isn't it? Training one's eyes to see what is there, rather than what the brain thinks it knows, is the basic tenant of all my beginning drawing classes. But it is also the root of my own studio practice as an observational painter. That search for truth - truth in the form of accurately seen shapes, forms, colors - when translated into paint becomes a record of existence, a documentation of a particular moment in time, an undeniable personal reality. I've said all this before, but it bears repeating. And anyway, Albers said it better. Go read his books. Stare at the illustrations until you see and understand the complex visual problems with which he grappled, and then realize that he solved these problems with the simplest and most direct element of art: the line.
that diamonds – are precious.
Good – to learn
that rubies – have depth,
but more – to see
that pebbles – are miraculous.
-Josef Albers (Despite Straight Lines, page 82)
To design is
to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control.
In short it embraces
all means opposing disorder and accident.
Therefore it signifies
a human need
and qualifies man's
thinking and doing.
- Josef Albers (page 75)
"Rapid motion within seemingly stable systems has changed our daily way of life as well as our inner imagery. We sit in a car or in a plane while the landscape slips by. Rocks change their shape, rivers and roads change their course relative to our eyes. Facades rise while we approach, recede and decline while we go on. Matter, the matrix of being, has become a function of energy and its dynamic and infinite transformations.
This, then, is the world out of which the work of Albers grows and can present to us the relativity of our most basic experiences. Forced to test again and again all that we see, we learn to see more."
- Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines by Francois Bucher (page 57)
Learning to see more... that's what it comes down to, isn't it? Training one's eyes to see what is there, rather than what the brain thinks it knows, is the basic tenant of all my beginning drawing classes. But it is also the root of my own studio practice as an observational painter. That search for truth - truth in the form of accurately seen shapes, forms, colors - when translated into paint becomes a record of existence, a documentation of a particular moment in time, an undeniable personal reality. I've said all this before, but it bears repeating. And anyway, Albers said it better. Go read his books. Stare at the illustrations until you see and understand the complex visual problems with which he grappled, and then realize that he solved these problems with the simplest and most direct element of art: the line.
Sunday, May 28, 2017
The Drawing Source Interview
My dear friend and former studio mate Marina Fridman recently interviewed me for her fabulous website The Drawing Source. I am humbled and honored to be included alongside the other incredible artists that she features. The Drawing Source is an online compendium and educational resource for anyone who wants to learn how to draw. Marina features artist interviews, free e-books, and step-by-step tutorials that help demystify the classical drawing process and make it accessible for everyone.
Check out a couple of my favorite excerpts from our conversation below:
Be sure to visit her website and check out the full interview here! http://www.thedrawingsource.com/samantha-haring.html
Sunday, May 21, 2017
On Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines
There is no world without a stage
and no one lives for not-appearing.
Seeing of ears invites to speak,
knowing of eyes invites to show.
Notice also, silence sounds
listen to the voice of color.
Semblance proves it can be truth
as every form has sense and meaning.
- Josef Albers, Despite Straight Lines, page 8
"Another difficulty lies in the fact that the eye in search of reality or perhaps ultimate truth, wants to see more than the artist expresses. But here through the excitement of the unresolvable it stays bound to the work of art and develops new techniques for seeing." - pages 23-4.
+ = –
The more
the sun shines,
the more
water evaporates,
clouds appear,
and the sun
– shines less.
The less
the sun shines,
the less
water evaporates,
clouds diminish,
and the sun
– shines more.
Da capo.
- page 17
I picked up a copy of Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines by Francois Bucher at the library yesterday. Anything to do with Albers automatically has my heart, and so far this book is marvelous. It is a beautiful treatise on design and the communicative potential of compositions. The illustrations alongside Albers' poetry and writing are thoughtful and profoundly complex despite their apparent simplicity. It's precisely the jolt of inspiration I needed this week.
and no one lives for not-appearing.
Seeing of ears invites to speak,
knowing of eyes invites to show.
Notice also, silence sounds
listen to the voice of color.
Semblance proves it can be truth
as every form has sense and meaning.
- Josef Albers, Despite Straight Lines, page 8
"Another difficulty lies in the fact that the eye in search of reality or perhaps ultimate truth, wants to see more than the artist expresses. But here through the excitement of the unresolvable it stays bound to the work of art and develops new techniques for seeing." - pages 23-4.
+ = –
The more
the sun shines,
the more
water evaporates,
clouds appear,
and the sun
– shines less.
The less
the sun shines,
the less
water evaporates,
clouds diminish,
and the sun
– shines more.
Da capo.
- page 17
I picked up a copy of Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines by Francois Bucher at the library yesterday. Anything to do with Albers automatically has my heart, and so far this book is marvelous. It is a beautiful treatise on design and the communicative potential of compositions. The illustrations alongside Albers' poetry and writing are thoughtful and profoundly complex despite their apparent simplicity. It's precisely the jolt of inspiration I needed this week.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Bring May Flowers - new work by Tess Michalik
My grad school buddy Tess Michalik has a new series of paintings, and they are killer. I've always loved how juicy, confident, and physical her paintings are, and these new ones are so rewarding to see in person. Check out "Bring May Flowers" this month at the Standard Studio Space in Indianapolis!
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