Marilyn Fenn Studio

We went to a really nice exhibit today in the modern architecture setting of Metrohouse, where they were showing the work of 3 local artists: Andrew Long, Steven Dubov and Roi James. Great venue in which all the work looked fabulous!
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Andrew’s — of both his [...]

“Succession 01 #4-4 (The Seed)”
Oil on Canvas
12″ x 12″ (part of 20-panel series, O.D. 48″ x 60″)
©2008
Every time I take a class with the wonderful painter Andrew Long, my work starts changing…
I took a class with him last spring, which helped greatly in the development of my rather freeform abstract encaustic paintings.
I took a [...]

Class notes from Reinventing Your Creative Process with Andrew Long, Fall 2007
I am so going to miss these classes with Andrew Long.  He said this would be a life-altering experience, and as grand a claim as that may sound, he wasn’t kidding.
My work changed fairly dramatically after taking the first version of this class [...]

Class notes from Poetic Non-Representational Acrylic Painting with Andrew Long, Fall 2007
The object in the painting – is it being an object vs. being a facsimile of the object? Does it have a history, a great hook, and richness, a fullness, or is it empty?
What’s the difference between this abstract piece of art [...]

Painting by Terry Winters, just because it’s so frigging beautiful!
Notes in response to the question “Why Do You Create the Art You Create?” posed in the class Poetic Non-Representational Acrylic Painting with Andrew long, Fall 2007
Thoughts and Quotes in response (from several previous classes at SAIC posted earlier in this blog):
An artist needs to be [...]

Painting by Joan Snyder
“Magic Meadow”
Class notes from Poetic Non-Representational Acrylic Painting with Andrew Long , Fall 2007
What do you think of when you think of a building?  Do you think of the structure underneath?   Why don’t they call it a “built”?  “Building” is a verb – a process.
Maxine Price – a fellow student’s [...]

Class notes from Reinventing Your Creative Process with Andrew Long, Fall 2007
Jackhammer your myths.
For me, consolidate my careers.  Think about validation.  Making money doesn’t validate your art (yes, but it makes it possible to spend more time doing your art).
Think about, art can be more fun w/o the business end of it.
Think about [...]

Class notes from Reinventing Your Creative Process with Andrew Long, Fall 2007
“One theory of education says that learning is not accumulating information but discarding what your mind doesn’t need.”
from this article in the NY Times

Class notes from Reinventing Your Creative Process with Andrew Long, Fall 2007
Are you what you paint?
Are you painting something external or internal?

Painting by Richard Prince
LAKE RESORT NURSE’ (on the stretcher)
ink-jet print and acrylic on canvas
70 x 48 in. (177.8 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 2003
Class notes from Reinventing Your Creative Process with Andrew Long, Fall 2007
This class will be a guaranteed life-changing experience.  A gift you give yourself.
Richard Prince – it may take him 5 years [...]