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I look around the studio, a week since the opening of my recent exhibit, at the pieces underway. “Where do I go, long run?”, I wonder. It’s not about the work. Although I don’t know where exactly how they’ll end up, I am being drawn into their dialogs, and enjoy working things out. Continue reading »

Panel Discussion: New Art Examiner @ The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, April 15, 2012. At the end of the panel discussion Derek Guthrie read the following statement which he has graciously allowed Neoteric Art to publish here.

Statement:

My following remarks are only an overview. They are today’s suggested topics for debate. There may be conclusions embedded, but if so they are spare and not well argued for reasons that I have just stated. Continue reading »

The publishing of the best of the “New Art Examiner” is an extraordinary event and bears witness to an important truth, which is that the community has the ultimate power to decide and acknowledge its own reference points of merit and appreciation. In this case the community is led by Kathryn Born and Terri Griffith, who, on hearing stories Continue reading »

Re-Examining The New Art Examiner Symposium at Northern Illinois University on January 28, 2012 with Panelists Derek Guthrie, Josh Kind, Buzz Spector, Richard Siegesmund, Janet Koplos, Paul Krainak, Alice Thorson, Lynne Warren, Michael Bulka, Jennie Klein, and Susan Snodgrass.

The New Art Examiner was born out of censorship. ~ Derek Guthrie

As long as you don’t have a vetting process it’s hard to have credible critics. ~ Michael Bulka

You get what you pay for. You need an editorial framework so that you have some kind of entity that has a mission. ~ Alice Thorson Continue reading »

The current traveling exhibition of Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park Series offers a unique opportunity for viewers to participate in the artist’s grand achievement as negotiators – and re-negotiators – of visual dynamics and material effect. Continue reading »

I’m sending you my dirty laundry writes Courbet to his parents in 1839. Courbet is only twenty years old, a student at Besançon, and looks like the self-assured young man in this self-portrait (not the larger-than-life painter who once bragged that he drank two bottles of Burgundy, three bottles Continue reading »

A few years ago I was browsing in my favorite used book shop when I came upon an English edition of Charles Blanc’s Grammaire Des Arts Du Dessin by Kate Doggett. She published this translation in Chicago in 1879 as Grammar of Painting and Engraving. I immediately bought Continue reading »

Foreword

In the summer of 2011 I began a lengthy email conversation with my main professor from graduate school, Barry Gealt. Barry is someone who’s continued to have authority to challenge me and I have always valued what I’ve learned from him; he’s been at least as influential to me since Continue reading »

The ways that the human mind manifests itself in creative activity are vast and various. People have theorized about and argued over modes of creative impetus for millennia. Artists and lovers of art are constantly attempting to plumb these depths, always looking for some elucidation Continue reading »

“White” was originally published January 16, 2009 on vschneider.wordpress.com

Two days ago at a press conference in Millennium Park, Mayor Daley warned residents about this week’s dangerously cold temperatures while at the same time announcing a new campaign to attract tourists from around the world to Chicago in the winter. Continue reading »