GRACE VISITS: JUNE WILSON 10/21/16

Studio Table with paints and barnacles, etc

Milk Thistle Pod in June Wilson's Hand

I was excited to have had the opportunity to make a studio visit to the artist JUNE WILSON and write about her work for WOMEN"S VOICES FOR CHANGE. Here is the link to the article:

http://womensvoicesforchange.org/grace-visits-artist-june-wilson.htm

Here is a link to a Video Interview with June Wilson:
https://vimeo.com/12623024

More images in the order that they are mentioned in the article.

Lickety Split Detail: first brush marks before glazing in oil

Lickety Split, 29”x25” oil/acrylic on wood, 2003

Studio Wall with drawings of flight patterns of bees

Milk And Honey, 30"x26",  oil on wood, 2009

Pollen Sac, 30"x26", oil on wood, 2012

It's Gonna Rain,  48"x43", oil on wood, 2015

Blown Away,  48"x43", oil on wood, 2016

Jar of Milkweed pods

Pheasant's Tail on Studio Wall

Midnight At The Oasis, 48"x43", oil on wood, 2015

AMERICAN HONEY 10/16/16

AMERICAN HONEY is an excellent movie - a "road trip" through the mid-west with a bus load of "innocents" (a tour bus of 20 teens and young adults) banding together making money selling magazines door-to-door spewing sly tales of loss, death and poverty, invoking pity to increase sales. At the same time displaying all the wild craziness and camaraderie of youth with their feeling of invincibility and a fierce sense of defying death which the sense of infallibility generates. 

Driving through the American landscape including the suburbs, the vast dry plains of Kansas and Nebraska, the fast food restaurants blinking inviting lights off the sides of the road, the flame lit pumping oil fields, and the ever-present homes that are drowning in poverty - all exposing the abundant layers of disparity in our country. 

 Like romping puppy dogs the "kids" nuzzle, jump over, and wrestle with one another and occasionally bite. Beautifully filmed and acted by Shia LaBoeuf and Sasha Lane -performances filled with bravado veiling the beauty of fragility.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/movies/american-honey-review-andrea-arnold.html?_r=0