I feel a new set of drawings coming on. Like a wave, I feel it approaching. It is coming and all I can do is brace for it. Where will you take me today? Where will we go? Lets find out!

artMRKT San Francisco

May 17, 2012 - May 20, 2012

Jennifer Kostuik Gallery is participating in artMRKT San Francisco 2012. If you're in San Francisco, stop by and visit us at our booth during the fair! Featuring work by Curtis Cutshaw

My daughter came home from school the other day and when asked at the dinner table what she did today in school she said that they watched a movie in Music. Was it a movie about music or a historical piece where music played a huge part? No it was not. Apparently the teacher was preparing for the school play and so she put a movie on for the grade three class. I got upset and everyone was surprised or maybe not, because they know me. I said, would this happen in math class? Or science? No it would not. So why is it ok to do that in Music class or in Art class? It brought back a memory of high school where our yearly Art budget was spent by the sports department instead of on supplies for Art. I have had many discussions about how little importance Art and Music have in schools compared to math. I remember sitting with a mathematician talking about the Golden Section. He was coming at it thru numbers and I was coming at it thru Art. We were both talking at the same level and coming to the same conclusions. Anything that you can teach in grade school math can be taught in Art. Art can be taught at a high level but instead the schools are teaching Art at a very basic level. Art has no place in school or so they would have us believe. I beg to differ and I will always speak up and stand up for Art and Music in the lives of our children. It is important and people are too stupid to see that. Someone said to me that it is too early too put that much focus on art and music. I said we do it for hockey and that is why in Canada we have a history of having some of the best hockey players in the world.
I don't have to worry though because my blog is about Art so it and what I say will go totally unnoticed.

Meghan Jessiman ‏ @SwerveCalgary

Today's Must Do: Curtis Cutshaw: Watermark. The artist ties pencils to dowsing rods and strikes gold at Herringer Kiss.http://bit.ly/JDBSeu

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The Must Do List, Swerve Magazine April 2012

Herringer Kiss Gallery Calgary

CURTIS CUTSHAW: WATERMARK

We don't know if the artist found water when he tied a pen to his dowsing rods, but he certainly created some intriguing images.

Why do you draw? Do you draw because you have to? Do you draw because your dealer asked you for a drawing for the group drawing show? Do you show your drawings? Are they private? What do you expect from a drawing? Are your drawings an end in themselves? Or do you draw as a preparatory stage for your paintings or sculpture?
Drawing is immediate. A single line can completely transform an entire sheet of paper. A single mark can give the viewer enough information on how to look and direct them at what they are looking at. Drawing can be done anywhere at any time.
I remember reading about Jackson Pollock being so broke that he would go and take the deposit slips from the bank and draw on them when he could not afford paper. You can always draw.
You can't hide in a drawing. It is all there.
I often look at master drawings and try to figure out where the first mark was made and how an entire drawing can be built around one single line.
I am the person at the large painting shows standing alone looking at the small little drawings that go unnoticed.
I draw because I have to. Every single day.  They are an end in themselves and take me to places nothing else can.

"I draw as I breathe"- Joseph Beuys.