Dana Carlson

Dana Carlson's work explores materials and markmaking and lots of in-your-face cheesyness- icons like kittens and horses, decorative pattern,puff paint, collage and applique. Though its not called out in her artist statment, there's an organic femininity to the work, in both the shapes and the icons and colors chosen. Dana embraces a sort of "anti-aesthetic", allowing an element of the unpolished as a reprieve from the slickness of modern graphics.

Anderson Ranch Art Center

The Anderson Ranch Art Center is a little cloud of bliss up in the Rocky Mountains where artists can go to learn, work, and be inspired by workshops, residencies, visiting artists, and various events. The workshops are offered at various experience levels, from children and teens to professional adults, and cover a variety of disciplines, from ceramics to installation. There are funding scholorships available, if you apply early enough...and also students or full time teachers can get into workshops with availablility for half off the tuition fee.

Paul Shortt, "Missed Connections"

Paul Shortt is a student at the Kansas City Art Institute, and just had a show opening at Project Space in Kansas City. This particular body of work from Paul, titled "Missed Connections", was inspired by ads taken out in Craigslist describing brief moments of connection where people encountered a stranger they would like to get to know better. Paul recreated the ads in the locations that they took place, and also created a film of the locations he went with voiceovers of the ads.

Paul Shortt's show, "missed connections" will be up for the month, coming down the third week of June. Next door at Paragraph gallery you can also catch "Happy Tree Friends part 2", which features several installation works themed around Trees.

ONLINE VIDEO ART LECTURES

Here's an link to the collection of video lectures at the School of VIsual Arts
at the Boston University. I watched the one with Dana Schutz and it was great.
It gives much insight into the person behind the art, which, in my opinion gives
insight into the art itself.

Lectures on Art at BU

Philip Slein Gallery

Catherine Howe
Fred Stonehouse

Philip Slein Gallery in St Louis features a lot of "edgy", contemporary figurative artists, as well as underground comic artists, sculptors, and abstract painters of national and regional backgrounds. The next opening, June 5 - July 18th, features Marc Handelman, Daniel Hesidence, Erik Oost, Emilio Perez, Halsey Rodman, Gordon Terry, Britton Tolliver, Jonathan VanDyke, and Oliver Warden, in a salute to abstract expressionism.

philip slein gallery
1319 washington avenue
saint louis, mo 63103
p: 314.621.4634
f: 314.621.3913