I went downtown to the Austin Museum of Art to check out the Lance Letscher exhibition. I have always appreciated collage work, I love the depth achieved by layering different elements. Letscher’s work is really striking: delicately beautiful and also brightly rhythmic. As others have commented, Letscher’s use of old printed materials provide a kind [...]
So, before I left the Getty, I went to the giftshop and purchased and 11×14 print of “Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889″ to hang on my wall at home. The print’s colors are duller and darker than the paintings, the dimensions outrageously (and neccessarily) different. You can actually see the color difference when comparing [...]
January of this year I visited Los Angeles for the first time. I had been in LAX a few times, but never exited the airport. I grew up in Willamette Valley of Oregon, where one naturally learns to disdain Southern California. I carried my prejudice with me all the way along Interstate 10 from Austin, [...]
