Art is the preservation of the soul
Add comment October 5th, 2008
Words to soothe an anxious spirit
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launche’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductle anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
-Walt Whitman
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
-Henri Nouwen
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
-Saint Teresa of Avila
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
-Mother Teresa
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
-Buddha
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
-Josef Albers
Add comment October 4th, 2008
Light Paintings Featured as Cover Art for ITCH Magazine Asterisk Edition
ITCH Magazine, a publication on creative writing and visual art out of South Africa, features recent light paintings as cover art in its current issue, entitled rather intriguingly, the * Issue. Read on.
Add comment October 1st, 2008
A quiet moment after the opening of my latest show
A Beautiful Moment from David Shing on Vimeo.
Add comment September 29th, 2008
New work for Agitatto Swiss Gallery
Agitatto, a Swiss online gallery, features a unique collection of international artists: photographers, painters and sculptors. I have contributed a new series of work, exploring movement and light in the urban environment, to the gallery. Visit www.agitatto.com for more details. “Agitatto online gallery is dedicated to promoting contemporary art and to bringing you the best of the international creative scene.”
Add comment September 23rd, 2008
For Immediate Release/ Hillman + Chavez opens at Affirmation Arts
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marla Goldwasser
marla@affirmationarts.com
Advent 1, 2008, Unique Ilfochrome Print, 48 x 60 inches
Hillman + Chavez
September 19 – October 24, 2008
Opening Reception September 19th 6-8pm
August 28, 2008: New York, NY: Affirmation Arts is pleased to announce the opening of Hillman + Chavez on September 19, 2008. The exhibition inaugurates the collaboration of William T. Hillman and Lia Chavez. A book, with an introduction by Gary Sangster, accompanies the exhibition. Both artists will be present at the September 19th reception from 6-8pm.
Thirteen large, unique photographic works created within the past year will be exhibited. These innovative photographs explore light and space, while abstractly presenting the figure as form. Sangster writes “For Hillman + Chavez the lure of light coupled with the lure of the body – in particular bodies in motion or bodies under tension, physical or psychological – is accentuated through the elaboration of a new, hybrid photographic technique that enmeshes digital photography, with traditional photography and the static silhouette system of the photogram.”
Trained as a painter and academic, William T. Hillman studied landscape painting at the Lacoste School of the Arts in France and portraiture and anatomy at the Art Students League in New York City. He received an MA and an MBA from Princeton and Columbia Universities. He has experimented throughout his career, moving from painting to montage to computer-digitized photographic images. Recently represented by Barry Friedman Ltd. and shown at Splash, at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery in New York, Hillman will be included in TINA B. -The Prague Contemporary Art Festival: Forms of Engagement in the fall of 2008. Hillman, American born in 1954, lives and works in New York City.
Lia Chavez studied art and art history in Florence, Italy, and at Goldsmiths College, University of London, as well as gender theory, anthropology, and visual cultures at the International Gender Studies Center, University of Oxford. Her multimedia work, which focuses on photography, has been exhibited in London, New York, and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Lifeblood, at Samuel Klein Contemporary Art, London; Shot and Go: A Vision of Today’s International Photography, Venice; and Nightcomers, Tenth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul. Chavez, American born in 1978, lives and works in London.
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 11am-5pm. For more information, including images and catalogue, please contact Marla Goldwasser at 212 925 0092 or via email marla@affirmationarts.com
Go, 2008, Unique Ilfochrome Print, 108 x 144 inches
Add comment September 5th, 2008
Help Support Artist Jillian Pena
Dear Friends,
Please join me in supporting the promising young dancer-choreographer Jillian Pena as she recovers from her recent injuries.
Please visit this link. Thank you!
Add comment August 16th, 2008
On the movement of waves and women
“The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature…The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body. The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity. She will dance not in the form of a nymph, nor fairy, nor coquette but in the form of a woman in its greatest and purest expression. She will realize the mission of woman’s body and the holiness of all its parts. She will dance the changing life of nature, showing how each part is transformed into the other. From all parts of her body shall shine radiant intelligence, bringing to the world the message of the thoughts and aspirations of thousands of women. She shall dance the freedom of women …”
- Isadora Duncan
“A wave is never alone but is mingled with as many other waves as there are inequalities on the banks where the wave is produced…all the impressions caused by things striking upon the water can penetrate one another without being destroyed.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Add comment August 16th, 2008
Upcoming show in New York
I’ll be having my first big show in New York City this fall. The official opening date of the show has just been finalized to Friday, September 19th. More details to follow…
1 comment July 4th, 2008