Gwenn

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  1. 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 >

  2. 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 >

  3. 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 >

  4. 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 >

  5. Instead of competition

    4/22/12 8:07am by Gwenn
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    There is a lot more collaboration that goes on in the animal world than we would maybe like to admit.  Read more >

  6. The privilege of being on CubFluffer

    4/19/12 9:44am by Gwenn
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    A couple of years ago, artist and curator Gabe Flores and I interviewed each other on the intersection of art and money. Then, last month, I interviewed Gabe about being the subject of two of my portraits, and just recently Gabe got me back by interviewing me for his new project CubFluffer. Despite what this suggests, Gabe and I do interact off-camera sometimes too.  Read more >

  7. Pity versus understanding

    3/24/12 10:48am by Gwenn
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    There's a difference between feeling sorry for someone and taking the time to listen to what another person is going through. Where infertility is concerned, we could do with less of the former and more of the latter.  Read more >

  8. Ira Glass in the Looking Glass: Mike Daisey, Art, and Journalism

    3/19/12 4:16pm by Gwenn
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    Mike Daisey (Image: © Bryan Smith/ZUMAPRESS.com)

    Ira Glass saying that Mike Daisey doesn't tell the truth is like saying that René Magritte doesn't represent reality. The statement is at least as wrong as it is right.  Read more >

  9. Queer

    3/19/12 2:03pm by Gwenn
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    Throughout most of my adolescent years, I was called a lesbian. I'm not one now and I wasn't then, but that was how a lot of people saw me at my high school.  Read more >

  10. The best kind of artist

    3/5/12 9:13am by Gwenn
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    There are three different kinds of artists but just one who accomplishes much of anything.  Read more >

Gwenn Seemel

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.

About Me Tags: 

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

 

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