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ARTS NEWS: April 27, 2009
 Top Stories Squeak Carnwath : Painting Is No Ordinary Object
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA USA Bryan Ricci � Nature Hates Calculators and Jennifer Beedon Snow - Dwelling
Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America Call for Artists: 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition
Atlanta Fine Arts League, Atlanta, GA USA United States of America Points of View: Ilgvars Zalans and Lena Kurovska
EE Fine Art, Cambridge, UK United Kingdom | | Squeak Carnwath : Painting Is No Ordinary Object
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA USA The 20-year professional association between artist Squeak Carnwath and Karen Tsujimoto, senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of California, culminates in Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object. The exhibition opens April 25 and continues through August 23, 2009. This presentation of Carnwath's work-the first organized by a major West Coast museum-includes more than 40 paintings not seen collectively since the artist's last major exhibition, in 1994. 'An in-depth examination of Squeak Carnwath's work is timely, if not overdue,' says museum director Lori Fogarty. 'This show confirms Carnwath's groundbreaking artistry and stature as one of California's leading contemporary artists.' - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Bryan Ricci � Nature Hates Calculators and Jennifer Beedon Snow - Dwelling
Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America Lawrence Asher Gallery in Los Angeles presents two exhibitions from April 25 through May 23, 2009, Bryan Ricci � Nature Hates Calculators and Jennifer Beedon Snow - Dwelling. Bryan Ricci returns to Lawrence Asher Gallery with a new collection of highly detailed animal, insect and bird paintings. LAG introduces Beedon Snow to Southern California through oil paintings of Mid-western bliss filtered through childhood memory. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Call for Artists: 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition
Atlanta Fine Arts League, Atlanta, GA USA United States of America The Atlanta Fine Arts League invites you to submit your entries to our 3rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, 'Observations' August 14-October 2, 2009. This year's exhibition is being juried by Atlanta Artist Ed Horlbeck and will be hosted by the Roswell Visual Arts Center Gallery. Entry fee is $30 for 3 digital images and the deadline is June 24th. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Points of View: Ilgvars Zalans and Lena Kurovska
EE Fine Art, Cambridge, UK United Kingdom EE Fine Art is pleased to present an exciting and thought-provoking exhibition featuring two very different landscape painters: Ilgvars Zalans and Lena Kurovska. The exhibition will be open from April 25 through May 5, 2009 at the gallery in Cambridge. Both artists see the world in a different way and have very distinct methods of translating what they see into paint. EE Fine Art promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Call for Artists: AsoloArtFilmFestival 28 edition
Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, IT Italy Last month to send your film to AsoloArtFilmFestival 28 edition, that will be held in Asolo from August 28 to September 6, 2009. AsoloArtFilmFestival upholds the cultural traditions and embodies the concepts established by the Festival Internazionale del Film sull�Arte e di Biografie d�Artista. Created in 1973 by Flavia Paulon, the former festival enjoyed great international success for over two decades, until it was interrupted in the middle of the �90s. Founded in 2001, AsoloArtFilmFestival also in this edition will offer, after 36 years from its foundation, his annual exhibition with a contest dedicated to films and videos dealing with the topic of art in all its forms. The contest is divided into six sections. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com | | | | CALL FOR ENTRIES: Your best way to maximize your arts' exposure online. The Premiere Artist Portfolio is now offered to artists that are sincerely interested in actively promoting their art. absolutearts.com provides the highest quality venue - an exclusive group of artists will be included to create world wide prestige. Only a few days left to sign up. Don't miss out! Sign up now! | | |  The Premiere Artist Portfolio is offered to artists that are ready to actively promoting and giving tremendous exposure to their art world wide. absolutearts.com provides the highest quality venue - direct online sales opportunities - many marketing opportunities - an exclusive group of artists will be included to create world wide prestige. Apply Now! Artblogs - Art Blogs: 
ROSEMARY LUCY COSENTINO
Michael Corbin
Rosemary Lucy Cosentino is an artist who lives in Montreal, Quebec. I actually met her online after she responded to one of my blogs. I checked out her website, www.rosemary-cosentino.com and I loved her art which I think has a brooding, solitary quality. Consequently, I asked her to chat here. She's actually breaking the rules by sticking with the old school ... Read on and you'll see what I mean. MICHAEL: Thanks for chatting Rosemary. First of all, you call yourself a "Contemporary Figurative Realist Artist" who employs "Old Master" techniques. Is it really possible to breathe new life into old techniques? ROSEMARY: Definitely! Hopefully, I won't go too much off topic, but everything I say is relevant to why I strongly believe this to be true. Growing up, my true inspiration in becoming an artist came from impressive realist oil paintings I saw in books, television and museums. I wanted to be able to paint that way as well and in doing so, I would be perhaps one day as well able to inspire some child in becoming an artist in the same way the Old Masters did for me. I have used the old techniques and took the most important part of that (knowing how to make your paints and how to apply them properly on hand prepared grounds) and created my own style and personalized technique. I can ensure my paintings will last through the test of time and still be classified as a contemporary artist who paints figuratively and realistically. Up close, my works are very painterly and the layering of brushstrokes is not the same, but similar to what Rembrandt did in his works. I can paint photo-realistic if I choose with a brushstroke free flawless look or expressionist or even abstract. I will always employ the Old Master technique no matter the subject. It does not matter really what you are painting, but how you are painting it. Rembrandt's scratchy, layered, painterly strokes were genius. He captured so much with so little. There are no restrictions on subject matter like in those days, and so I do not fear being thrown in jail for trying to depict something other than representational and what is real. But, it is my choice to paint the way I do.
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