Author Archive
Fri 13 Nov 2009
EAST OF EDEN
New Works by Mercedes Helnwein
Opening Reception: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 8-11pm
Hosted by Jason Lee
MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY
170 S. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA. 90036
tel: 323-933-4408
email: mkgallery@att.net
www.mercedeshelnwein.com
www.mkgallery.com
Sun 6 Sep 2009
On September 10th, 2009 POVevolving Gallery will open a wonderful exhibition of original prints by Los Angeles based artist A. Conway Hubbard.
The show, hosted by Actor / DJ Danny Masterson, marks the artist’s first adventure into the world of drypoint intaglio printing.
The included works are the first that the artist has shown since formulating a special printmaking ink that uses blood as its primary ingredient. For this exhibition, Hubbard has printed each intaglio plate in varying ways using both traditional black inks and his specially created ‘blood ink.’
All of the prints in this exhibition are beautifully framed as groups of prints. A presentation that functions both as a great display of the formal craft involved in making prints of this…
Mon 19 Jan 2009
I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm…
Tue 20 May 2008
Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?
The Master said, “To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.”
Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
The Master said, “I will not be afflicted at men’s not knowing me; I will be afflicted that I do not know men.”
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought…
Fri 13 Nov 2009
EAST OF EDEN
New Works by Mercedes Helnwein
Opening Reception: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 8-11pm
Hosted by Jason Lee
MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY
170 S. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA. 90036
tel: 323-933-4408
email: mkgallery@att.net
www.mercedeshelnwein.com
www.mkgallery.com
Sun 6 Sep 2009
On September 10th, 2009 POVevolving Gallery will open a wonderful exhibition of original prints by Los Angeles based artist A. Conway Hubbard.
The show, hosted by Actor / DJ Danny Masterson, marks the artist’s first adventure into the world of drypoint intaglio printing.
The included works are the first that the artist has shown since formulating a special printmaking ink that uses blood as its primary ingredient. For this exhibition, Hubbard has printed each intaglio plate in varying ways using both traditional black inks and his specially created ‘blood ink.’
All of the prints in this exhibition are beautifully framed as groups of prints. A presentation that functions both as a great display of the formal craft involved in making prints of this…
Mon 19 Jan 2009
I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm…
Tue 20 May 2008
Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?
The Master said, “To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.”
Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
The Master said, “I will not be afflicted at men’s not knowing me; I will be afflicted that I do not know men.”
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought…