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These aren’t press clippings, or even wholly formed thoughts in some cases. Just a journal online.

WhiteHot Magazine Interview 2023

Kimberly Brooks in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret full interview >  Kimberly Brooks, Malibu Storm By DANIEL MAIDMAN June, 2023 With its candid, heartfelt depiction of female adolescence, Judy Blume’s 1970 middle-grade novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret has been a guiding light for generations of girls making their tumultuous way to womanhood. Kelly …

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SIGHTLINES: Group Exhibition, Melissa Morgan Fine Art

PRESS RELEASE 𝘚𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛𝘓𝘐𝘕𝘌𝘚: California All-Star Group Exhibition Feb 12 – March 31, 2022 Opening Reception: Feb 12th, 1 – 7 PM Performance by ʟᴏɴɢ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡꜱ in the Sculpture Garden: 5 PM Palm Desert, CA: Melissa Morgan Fine Art is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring artworks from our esteemed collection of California artists at …

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Cat Art Show LA, Curated by Susan Michals, Los Angeles

101 Exhibit is pleased to present CAT ART SHOW LOS ANGELES, curated by Susan Michals, featuring over seventy artists, the largest exhibition of its kind. Opening Reception on Saturday, January 25th, 2014, 7-10pm 101/exhibit, 6205 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90038 Artists Include:  C215 FAILE Gary Baseman Guy Denning Jill Greenberg Jonathan Yeo Kimberly …

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Preparing for TED

I’m speaking at a satellite TED conference on Friday in Fullteron about the arts.  I’ve been walking around my neighborhood with index cards talking to myself and people might think I’m crazy.   Rehearse rehearse rehearse!  www.tedxfullerton.com

7 Rings: Artist Telephone

Today I played 7 Rings, the game created by Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker on the Huffington Post.   Each participant has 24 hours to respond to the previous artist’s work.  I was responding to the poem below by Alison Deming called The Mirror. “Chains for Alison” 2010, gouche on paper, 9″ x 12″ Kimberly Brooks …

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Leonard Shlain 1937 – 2009

My beloved, brilliant, extraordinary father, author and surgeon Leonard shlain, passed away May 11.  I wrote about the vigil my family held for him.  And then I wrote about the memorial.  Painting is the only thing that is keeping me going right now. Huffington Post -May 10 A Vigil For My Father, Leonard Shlain by …

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“Made in California”

Thursday evening June 25th to celebrate our Golden State with California artists and friends Peter Alexander, Stan Bitters, Kimberly Brooks, Jamie Daughters, Laddie John Dill, Ed Moses, Samuel Moyers and Daniel Wheeler. Special guest Eames Demetrios, pop-up store by our own Trina Turk. A portion of the evening proceeds to PS Arts. THE GOLDEN STATE …

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Venice Art Walk

The Venice Art Walk (this weekend, May 16 and 17) is the oldest, most adventurous event of its kind on L.A’s cultural calendar. And while it may be the only to charge (starting at $50 – actually a great value) it also offers the best opportunities in town to snap up remarkable works of art …

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Leonard Shlain Update

Friends, Two weeks ago, I was just about to send a fall newsletter and hop on a plane to NY when I received a call from my brother that my father, Leonard Shlain, was going in for emergency brain surgery. He made it through, but the tumor was determined to be malignant. He is a …

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Artist as Exhibitionist

Much has been made of the recent Memorial Day Weekend Issue of the New York Times Magazine displaying, not a war veteran, but former Gawker editor Emily Gould languishing on a bed sporting a wife-beater and tattoo. It is not about the blog culture so much as an 8,000 word autobiographical tale about her experience in it. She paints a portrait …

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The Challenge of Depiction

I’ve often sought a literalness when depicting the color of flesh. Overtime and many techniques, I eventually landed on a restricted palette which uses burnt sienna as a base along with french ult. blue, cadmium orange, sap green and crimson. In “The Sophia Loren of Mill Valley”, however, I used only indigo blue and golden …

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The Aesthetics of Memory

I’ve been perusing stacks of old photo albums to recall my mother and her friends’ style, their manner. The camera used from my childhood created these rather small square images. They’re very faded now. Mostly wide shots with the head smack in the middle. Our old photo albums are like everyone’s. Like the way old …

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Markham Middle School

Today I visited a Markham Middle School. It is in the east side of Los Angeles. They have two giant empty buildings that use to be where they have a music program. The statistics of this school are grim. The kids are more likely to join a gang or be a victim of gang violence …

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I was only Born in New York

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Speed of Light

I was at a dinner party tonite and a man was telling me how his ninety four year old mother was dying. She woke up in the middle of the night last night and said, “Oh Henry, I thought it was seventy years ago and you were six years old and I was getting you …

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I’m really so private

I’m really so private. I don’t know why I’m doing this.  If it’s not on the web does it exist at all?  Oxygen.  oxygen.