LARAINE ARMENTI

Student of Painting

Shape, Color & Pattern

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Workshop Art: Ken Kewley's Looking and Inventing “Separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.” — Werner Heisenberg, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . Participating in a Ken Kewley collage workshop has become a nearly annual event for me since 2015. The quantity and scope of work produced is hard to equal elsewhere. The pace is fast. Each set of instructions … [Read more...]

Wild Turkeys

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Meleagris gallopavo — North American Wild Turkeys  The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. — Friedrich von Schiller (1759 – 1805) . . . . . . . . . . Wild turkeys arrive in our suburban backyard daily. Groups of three or five amble—or race single file—between maples and pines into the half-acre lot at the top of a New England hill. Their girth and scale shock in comparison … [Read more...]

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio

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Death & Marketing There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.—David Lloyd George, British prime minister (1916–22). . . . . . . . . . A lot has changed in 32 months since my last post. For one thing, I thought the number was 18, then did the math. Grasp of time, as others have noted, has been a casualty during the Covid-19 pandemic, to put it mildly. It has taken … [Read more...]

Outsiders — Musa Collective

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OUTSIDERS . . . . . . . . . . MUSA Collective Dec 8, 2018 – Jan 25, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . Paintings by: Laraine Armenti Robert Werbicki Grace Colletta Elizabeth Flood Noah Sussman George Nick . . . . . . . . . . Opening Reception: Dec 8, 2018,  4–6 pm Closing Reception: Jan 19, 2019,  4-6 pm Gallery hours by appointment:  musacollectiveboston@gmail.com . . . . . . . . . … [Read more...]

Evolution

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When I was in high school I elected to take a class in isometric drafting, becoming the teacher's first female student in 1975. Learning technical drawing could have led to an internship in an engineering department at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Instead, despite parental protest to the high school principal, the  work-study opportunity was awarded to a boy in my class because, the … [Read more...]

Teacher Student

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It can be a mark of pride in art to be self-taught, to be an Autodidact, Visionary, or Outsider artist. To a degree all artists can claim the title of being self-taught, despite Abe Lincoln's warning that, “He who represents himself has a fool for a client.” Hours lead to years of blind groping for uncertain results that truly place one face to face with oneself. There are also those who believe … [Read more...]

Summer Drawings

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Drawing means different things to different people. As a practitioner I want to make the approximate specific and say more with less. The most important thing is to draw often, in whatever way possible, to realize its potential. I went to ten extraordinary museums on art trips in New England this summer. Museums usually forbid the use of ink when drawing in sketchbooks from their art in … [Read more...]