PAULA WHYMAN
curiouswriter

In which we wonder about writing, food, music,  
& random curious events. 

I'm chatting with award-winning artist Tim Guthrie, over at Stephen Elliot's website, The Rumpus.net, as part of the new Mini-Interview Project. Check it out!

Tim does such a range of work, from subersive political installations to traditional Old Master style paintings, I could do ten interviews with him and not scratch the surface. I've mentioned his work before here.

The talented artist, and friend, Craig Cahoon, has artwork on display right now at The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery on U St. in DC, as part of a show called Traces. The show is a tribute to the memory of Jutta Phillipi Eigen, a longtime DC resident, composer, pianist, and physician who died of cancer in 2002. Traces includes work by artists Elise Wiarda (the curator), Daniel Brush, Renee Butler, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Joan Danziger, Sam Gilliam, Kitty Klaidman, Dale Loy, and Jean Meisel.





Craig is pictured below with Nebel 1, 2009, which he completed at the VCCA, with assistance from the Cafritz Foundation.



A photograph like this really isn't an adequate way to view this work. The paintings have a luminescent quality that's visually arresting in person.

All the art is for sale. The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery is a nonprofit gallery associated wtih the Smith Farm Center, an organization that provides therapeutic residential retreats for cancer patients.

The Gallery is open Wed-Friday 11-5, Sat, 11-3, and by appointment, 202.483.8600, and is located at 1632 U Street NW. The show runs through Jan. 30.

For the next ten days or so, my friend Tim Guthrie, the mixed-media artist, will post phases of his work on his blog, ArtsyFartsyTim, for your viewing pleasure.

As the mixed-media name implies, Tim covers a lot of ground, both personal and universal, including video, shrines, portraits, and large-scale projects that have a political edge, like mapping of nuclear test sites. The project he's posting on his blog now is from a series of portraits called "Extraordinary Rendition." It's been up for a few days, so you may need to scroll down to see the first few stages.

Here's a shot of Tim with one of the finished drawings in the series, appearing at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha last year. So you can see the scale.



See the rest at ArtsyFartsyTim.

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