These two stenciled texts by Gerard Bellaart are from a series of more than 500 created in 2005. Bellaart is a Dutch artist and writer, now living in France. He creates etchings, drawings, paintings and monotypes of figures, landscapes, and still lifes, as well as works strictly from the imagination. He notes that he employs a variety of techniques & materials, including oil paint, tempera, charcoal, ink. The selection of work on his website comprises a small fraction of his output between 1998 and 2011. He writes that "a more … [Read more...]

This is a stenciled text by Gerard Bellaart, from a series of more than 500 created in 2005. Bellaart is a Dutch artist and writer, now living in France. He creates etchings, drawings, paintings and monotypes of figures, landscapes, and still lifes, as well as works strictly from the imagination. He notes that he employs a variety of techniques & materials, including oil paint, tempera, charcoal, ink. The selection of work on his website comprises a small fraction of his output between 1998 and 2011. He writes that "a more extensive … [Read more...]

+++ "For me all is uncertain at all times." -- Gerard Bellaart +++ I'm a sucker for Bellaart's word-image artworks. 'ROT NOT' is one in a series of more than 500 created between April and December of 2005. Some of the images are included in 'Fragmentations,' a collection of Bellaart's visual works published by Cold Turkey Press. Others, this one among them, are included in Cold Turkey Press's Cloaca Maxima series. The actual sizes vary from about 19"/26" to 28"/39". … [Read more...]

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Somebody at the Morgan Library and Museum knows how to tout an upcoming show. Certainly the Morgan knows how to promote a press release, let alone how to have it written. Or maybe it's a work product of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where the show being touted -- Drawing Surrealism -- has been on view since October. Either way, or both ways, it sounds like a great exhibition. ++ Drawing Surrealism ++ January 25 – April 21, 2013 New York, NY, December 14, 2012 -- Few artistic movements of the twentieth century are as … [Read more...]

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I can't let the year end without taking note of a new coloring book -- yes, a coloring book -- titled Legends of the Lower East Side. It's a collaboration of the artists Troy Harris, Orlando Bonilla and the unstoppable documentarian Clayton Patterson. The book features their confederates in nonconformity, artistry, community activism, and "colorfulness." If the International Herbert Marcuse Society were to give a Great Refusal prize to honor colorful outsiders, Patterson should get it. Since there is no such prize, a coloring book will have to … [Read more...]