I’ve been making progress on one of the RISD photography graduate thesis requirements: our thesis book. This book will contain our work, in images, as well as a text document that is to be part research paper, part personal…
Since my last post I’ve been busy … (procrastinating!) updating my website, and making an animation showing my process. But imagine the video clip as an endless loop. (You can view it as a gif here.) The animation was…
I almost posted an image I took of a mountain range of laundry in my house today, all from just this past week. It’s really impressive. Our toddler has been waging a war against night time bed wetting, and losing,…
Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a guest artist is offered access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and insights. Unlike an…
Uttering the phrase “white guilt” is the beginning and the end to a conversation. I know, because I did it a couple of times this week, mostly in the presence of other white people… and I guess therein lies…
I’m not really sure where to begin here. At certain times our personal lives drag us far away from the desire to make art, or even to talk about art. But I guess if I am going to write anything,…
I recently applied to and interviewed for an artist residency at a senior center in New York City. Given that I’m interested in oral history, it seemed like a natural fit. However, in creating my project proposal, and then going…
https://vimeo.com/31915153 Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and…
I go to the gym to watch TV. Today while watching a VH1 countdown of this year’s something or another I realized that I only had two more days of 2012 and probably one more BR&S post in me. I…
J.R. Uretsky Women I’ve Known, Biblically: The Book of The Satan Performance sketch, 2012 Well, it’s mid December — a special time of year that may conjure up thoughts of snow and perhaps a warm sugary beverage or two. For…
So, I did a stupid thing. One of the ways my students can get extra credit is if they go to an art event and write a review. The stupid thing I did was reminding them of the extra…
Greetings BR&S! I’m J.R. Uretsky and in the studio today I am working on a new segment of my performance series titled, Women I’ve Known, Biblically. I have been thinking about sentimental artworks and found this great article by Nada…
https://vimeo.com/58230343 Our Daily Red is pleased to continue our artist-in-residence series titled Inside Out. Every month, a new guest artist will have access to the platform to publish images and jot down thoughts about inspiration, obsession, creative failures and…
Juan Amaya, Plant Study #8 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #9 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #10 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #11 Juan Amaya, Plant Study #12 What I do usually is just an active noticing/note-taking/collecting of items, gestures, notions, that…
From left to right: Susan Metrican, Juan Amaya, 2012. Dear everyone, Please meet Juan Amaya, graphic designer turned visual artist. His images seem at first a familiar mash-up of YouTube vernacular and Photoshop gaggery, but a subject begins to emerge…
Matching Mole, Signed Curtain, Matching Mole, 3:06, 1972 The Living on One Side, The Departed on the Other, Acrylic on Canvas, 44″x116″ (Diptych), 2012 Study at MFA with Onlookers, Acrylic on Canvas, 20″x16″, 2011
Without realizing it, I think my first idea to paint stripes inside a box were a way to break out of my habit of painting still lifes with black backgrounds. Introducing white stripes to a black void, as ridiculous as…
Goethe’s Theory of Colours is the book that I’m toting around in the Profondo Yellow video. I got a little obsessed with it a few years ago. It’s laid out by sections, and within each section are very brief and…
