View from the Studio

Thursday, October 29, 2020

The odyssey of the gods: the art of Henry Bermudez

›
 There is an experience to the art of Henry Bermudez that initially baffles us. It is clearly rife with symbols of a religious nature, but w...
Monday, October 19, 2020

From “Four Essays”

›
Essay1. Some thoughts on perception, modal thought and drawing (Early in the essay below I refer to the discovery of a sort of limit to perc...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Aphorisms, after reading Plato

›
Art is a form of discovery. Where knowledge ends, art begins. At the limit of seeing, a universe unfolds. Facility will never blunder...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

The Restless Spirit

›
Salon style art exhibits — why do they seem to work in Lascaux, but not in modern times? Is it that the framing of paintings, as well as roo...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Patrick Connors at Gross McCleaf Gallery

›
In the mid 1970's I met Patrick Connors at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, when he was a student and I was a young playwright...
1 comment:
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Fred Danziger at Roger LaPelle Galleries

›
Fred Danziger began as a studio artist with some profound concerns about the nature of man. As the years passed, he leavened this into witty...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Leigh Werrell, Bettina Nelson and Mary Putman at Gross McCleaf Gallery

›
 Beware the Bear, by Leigh Werrell  Leigh Werrell's paintings and Bettina Nelson's collages share the show's title ...
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
John Sevcik
I'm an artist who lives in Philadelphia. I'm also a poet whose plays were produced here by The Philadelphia Company, Theatre of the Edge, The Brick Playhouse, and The City Theatre of Wilmington. My paintings are shown at Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, California, and Kevin Butler Gallery in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. I went to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and have taught drawing and painting at the Fleisher Art Memorial, the Delaware Art Museum, The Delaware College of Art and Design, and the Cheltenham Center for the Arts. View from the Studio is a blog project to observe and respond to art. It is done in the spirit of Fairfield Porter, Robert Henri, and Emerson. The purpose of my other blog, Poems for a New Century, is another matter entirely. Future Tense, the first of my plays, was written in verse and premiered at The Philadelphia Company, forerunner to The Philadelphia Theatre Company. Marathon, Consummation, and Never Enough were also written in poetry suitable for their purpose. Poems for a New Century will experiment further to offer some kindling for this new century of our awareness.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.