//: The Laws Which Govern Exceptions

The following post was spontaneous and for future reference.

http://www.susanburnstine.com/

Susan Burnstine said in an interview that she considers her journey into fine-art photography to have begun unintentionally after making her first home-made camera. Her main influences have been painters, Christina's World by Wyeth is a favorite.

Andrew Wyeth

Helga

Burnstine is based in Los Angeles and writes monthly for Black and White Photography (UK).

Read her interview with Ann Marie Popko here.

Suspend

From "Between" series

http://www.sidonievillere.com/

Villere has both her BFA (The Newcomb School of Art at Tulane University ) & MFA (The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) in Ceramics and teaches the same in New Orleans (Louise S. McGehee School).

To quote from above link:

"As a sculptor, her ceramic works often use geology to shape metaphorical self-portraits. As a painter, Villere layers non-traditional materials maintaining a painterly effect while also pushing her sculptural aesthetic."

Discipline

Glaze, string and plaster on porcelain
14” x 5” x 4” each
2009 Art Melt 2nd Place Prize

The above work was found on the same blog, Inside Art New Orleans. Thinking about what attracted me to this work reminded me of Philadelphia artist Thomas Chimes (1921-2009).

Chimes's 50 year retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art coincided with a school trip my senior year in high school. His work notably included ghostlike paintings, metal-boxes with drawings, monochromatic white mandalas arranged as tiles on the wall. It's hard for me not to wonder the degree to which his retrospective has affected my aesthetic - being surrounded by so many years' work of an individual so unique and so well placed in time...