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Frank Shifreen
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- New York
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- http://cultureinside.com
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- I am an artist (painter, sculptor, digital) as well as a curator. I am finishing a doctorate in Art and Art Education at Teachers College Columbia University.
I have had many solo exhibitions in different media as well as curated celebrated exhibitions in different venues
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My impulse as a young artist was to create and mount exhibitions, since that is the area in art creation where the reality principle operates, where the forces of control, power and money exercise their will. Economic power acts as a censor and gatekeeper to prevent artistic innovation and experimentation, in my view.
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Have a beautiful day, my Brother.
D.
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I started to journey and a group of spirit warriors appeared in a large boat and took us through the islands of healing. There is a site www.omoma.net ( other museum of modern art) that has the pieces and stories. I need to update it but if you are interested there is material. ( there is password required but it is given in the text box)
I guess I don't think of cold weather as anything but, weather. Last winter I didn't stay in a place where i would have had to walk a mile from my car to my dwelling. That was a good decision because that area had 18 snowstorms this year, and usually 6" and more each time. But, last year it was 6" and more every three days! Maine is very dramatic and a place of extremes. The 'bad' weather is all out bad, but when it turns 'good', every few days, it is spectacular. Even in the winter.
I have had to close myself off to Manhattan culture, in the depths of my vertical drop it has been too much for me. I have been practicing Shamanic journey work for many years . Both the green spirit canoe and the teepees are from my experiences. The green canoe is also my birth family- 5 people. I am in the middle. My doctoral show was called "true stories of dreams and the paranormal" I painted scenes in a folky style of my shamanistic experiences. There are a couple on your site.
Still sounds like a cold way to spend the winter. You do not have to go outside at all? Yes, I have to go outside. But, my car's right outside the door, too. And, unlike NY, you can usually park very close to wherever you have to go. Oh, and you always use a car. I do miss being able to walk to services, but that's where I am right now.
It is wondrous to me to hear your honesty and openness. This is a quality I have found to be common up in these parts. More so in the interior of Maine. Manhattan is a little pond with many fish all biting for the limited bait. It's amazing that it's as civil as it is. I found myself also retreating to student-hood. Not going as far as a Phd. I decided to start teaching independently and in the process learning more about my developing passion for the natural world. Definitely not part of the NYC art scene. Two closely allied disciplines I have found are nature and art observation and expression. It's probably why I responded to the 'teepees'. Your explanation- dreaming, rest, relationship to the ground (the earth) tells me your DNA is calling you to this. It's hard to hear DNA in a cityscape. LOL I also like the green canoe painting. There's something percolating there regarding flowing with the elements. Am I on the right track?
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must be cold as heck up in Maine.Where are you? It looks beautiful, if your photos are where you live.
Thanks so much for appreciating my work D. I believe in it ---although never had much outward success.. Everything I did was self generated. I was so mad that my friends were not putting me in shows that I started organizing them. When I felt that I was never going to have much recognition, I also felt angry, and applied to TC Columbia and started the doctoral program to learn everything I could about art, and try to make some sense of my career, as I was longer in the tooth, no longer an ingenue
You are doing such beautiful things! I am weeping to be reminded of the true heart and soul of the artist. You are so brave to bring art of this kind, that lives within you into this [broken] world. It is a wonderful thing you are doing and I'm so glad you are showing it here and on other sites.
The teepees...sculpture/paintings. I hope sometime, you'll be able to create more where they can be safe.
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teepees, Well I was a painter and did not know anything about sculpture decided to make paintings oriented to the floor instead of the wall. I thought about dreams, and that places where one could lie within the art could be dreamships
Thank you for visiting my page and your comment about the dog drawing. Movement and process...that's for me. I'll get a tablet and drawing tool to work with, some time, and it'll make a difference in using a drawing application, I reckon.
Have a wonderful day, today, in snowy NY. Stay safe.
D.
I thought I'd respond to your message from my private page instead of the 'Challenge' page.
Sorry to hear about your lyme's disease. People get over it, but sometimes it's a bit of a haul. I had a few scares myself this past summer after staying at a friend's house in the New Paltz area of the Catskills. I went to the doc and got an antidote after pulling off a tiny guy from the back of my knee. But that was only after the first one I found.
Well, except for that...I'd like to be creating pieces outdoors. I haven't done it, actually. Just being out there getting myself back in attunement. I look at animal tracks. Good training for the eye and brain.
You know I was thinking of Judy Pfaff's installations. But, I looked up her work and realize I'm thinking of much older work of hers.
I like your tipi's. I'm curious about the inspiration for it. Beautiful.
Take care,
D.
Stay well and safe in this storm we're having in the Northeast.
With friendship,
D.