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Painting my vagina without painting my vagina

5/16/12 11:32am by Gwenn
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My new series of paintings started out as a look at how infertility is marginalized in our society and turned into an exploration of how many behaviors and lifestyles are put down based on a gender binary that was established arbitrarily.  Read more >

The stupids

5/8/12 8:30am by Gwenn
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Every so often as I'm working, I come down with a big case of the stupids. It starts out with my aesthetic choices somehow feeling off. Suddenly, every brushstroke becomes a painful reminder of how unqualified I am to be a painter. From there, the feeling overwhelms every aspect of my art practice, from my thoughts about individual paintings to my plans for larger projects. I see that my blog is full of useless nattering--my whole website even. And I know that everything I say to people is dumb, meaning that I can't be much smarter. In other words, I'm stupid.  Read more >

Austin Kleon: creativity, copyright, and superstition

4/26/12 8:52am by Gwenn
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New York Times best-selling author Austin Kleon may be an advocate for creativity, but he also has a strange relationship with copyright.  Read more >

How I paint my portraits

4/24/12 10:23pm by Gwenn
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The making of my portraits starts long before I put brush to canvas. It begins with a photo-session. I work from photos I take myself of my subjects during the course of a conversation, and this interview has a few important benefits:  Read more >

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Face Making

My blog about my own art practice, the business of art, being an artist for free culture, and the difficulties of living with endometriosis. I vlog a lot and sometimes in French as well as English.

Gwenn Seemel

My portfolio website, exhibiting most of my work since I began my career in 2003.

gwennpaints

My Twitter profile.

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Full Name
Gwenn Seemel
Member Since
April 2008
About Me: 

I am Gwenn Liberty Seemel. My father wanted to name me Liberty Bell Seemel--after the great Philadelphian e-flat chimer--but made the compromise when my mother pointed out that that particular ding-dong is, in fact, cracked.

I'm a working artist and I've sold my soul to the genre of portraiture. I was raised in France as well as in the United States, and I blog in French sometimes but mostly it's in English.

Profession: 
artist
Location: 
Portland, OR, USA
About Me Tags: 

art, business of art, art marketing, portraiture, endometriosis

 

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