53 works of art will be auctioned off in Perugia this January 14, 2017
with proceeds going to the earthquake victims here in Italy.
One of my paintings will be present.
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Friday, December 23, 2016
Oh boy, Jet Lag!
Jet Lag is a funny thing,
but not that funny the day before Christmas
, when all through the house not a creature
is moving except for those who have jet lag.
Yesterday I went for a well-needed nap, late, at 4pm. At 8pm I found the lights on in the hallway and thought "Why didn't my husband close the door while he gets ready for work now at 6.45am!?" Then my hand felt that I had jeans on....WHAT?...I thought...Jeans on for sleeping all night???
Only then did I realize that it was 8 and he had come home from work and I had slept four full hours after being back from the USA for a bit over a week. What a lot of confusion!! Where AM I and what am I doing at all these strange hours?
So, friends, observers of my blog, people far away, and others in and on my timezone.
Travel is wonderful, travel is marvelous, but it can do strange things to our inner clock.
Here it is 5.15am in Italy, and 8.15pm in the States where I just came from. Today is a fun and busy day, daughter will arrive from another Italian city, and tonight a big wonderful meal at my relative's house. Tomorrow a nice meal here, the house to be straightened up and food cooked but boy oh boy....I am going to be tired with all this jet lag....
Hello, goodby, good morning and good night to you all!
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Umbria Una Foto al Giorno
During the last year there has been a lot of attention given to a page on Facebook, Umbra-Una-Foto-al-Giorno (Umbria, one photo each day).
Photographers have posted photographs taken in the Umbrian regione, from stunning panoramas to details of typical scenes in the towns of Perugia, Norcia, Trasimeno Lake, etc.
Hundreds if not thousands of photographs were posted, and a selection of the best of these photographs, 365 of them, were presented at Perugia at Sant'Anna Church a couple of months ago.
Now, the final book of these words, plus one photograph making them 366 has been published and presented just yesterday, Dec 17, 2016 at the stunning Nun Relais Spa in Assisi, during a presentation of the event in which all proceeds of the book will go to the people who have recently lost everything during the earthquake in the area of Norcia.
The following are some photographs from both the presentation at Sant'Anna months ago, and yesterday's presentation in Assisi. Here also is my photograph taken on the stairway of the Acquadotto in Perugia of a bicyclist who I caught while he courageously pedaled downwards on this famous landmark of Perugia.
Photographers have posted photographs taken in the Umbrian regione, from stunning panoramas to details of typical scenes in the towns of Perugia, Norcia, Trasimeno Lake, etc.
Hundreds if not thousands of photographs were posted, and a selection of the best of these photographs, 365 of them, were presented at Perugia at Sant'Anna Church a couple of months ago.
Now, the final book of these words, plus one photograph making them 366 has been published and presented just yesterday, Dec 17, 2016 at the stunning Nun Relais Spa in Assisi, during a presentation of the event in which all proceeds of the book will go to the people who have recently lost everything during the earthquake in the area of Norcia.
The following are some photographs from both the presentation at Sant'Anna months ago, and yesterday's presentation in Assisi. Here also is my photograph taken on the stairway of the Acquadotto in Perugia of a bicyclist who I caught while he courageously pedaled downwards on this famous landmark of Perugia.
The cover of the pubblication of the 366 most beautiful photographs of the
year chosen on the Facebook page "Umbria Una Foto Al giorno"
Sant'Anna, Perugia -- initial presentation of the 365 photographs chosen
as best of the year during Umbria Una Foto Al Giorno
My photograph of a bicyclist going down one of the well-known landmarks
of Perugia, l'Acquadotto
of Perugia, l'Acquadotto
Nun - Relais Spa in Assisi and presentation of the book of
photography Umbria Una Foto al Giorno
From left Marco Romoli, Marco Cozzari, Rubens Piovano, Silvio Aguzzi, Riccardo Regni
Francesco Fofi with Giancarlo Micarelli on the screen via skype,
Silvio Agazzi and Robens Piovano
Silvio Agazzi and Rubens Piovano taking a photograph of the public
Rubens Piovano presenting the event and Fabio Paltrinieri
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Super Moon
Last night I had a super time photographing the super moon from Perugia's historical city centre.
But first I photographed it as I drove up to the center.
Here is one of the photographs taken from right under the University for Foreigners.
But first I photographed it as I drove up to the center.
Here is one of the photographs taken from right under the University for Foreigners.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Bathroom Art Youtube video
I just had some fun (after a bit of work) making this video for Youtube called "Bathroom Art"
Friday, October 21, 2016
Agenzia Stampa Italia - article by Sarah Minciotti - my exhibition THE OTHER SIDE
Translation of the article written by writer, singer, composer Sarah Minciotti of my exhibition
THE OTHER SIDE.
In "The Other Side" there are questions not only about the artist in question but above all on themselves. The man who investigates through looks, poses, eyes that is 'wide open' in the mirror without ever reaching a solution, is the man that yes, it looks from the outside, but from within is the real star of life , of what he sees and what he lives. There never is a separation between artist and the observer that creativity produces never parish. Stephanie Seymour offers a 'world' in which she herself is a reflection of all of us, as well as art is life in all its complexity, in every color, intense or dull, rational or irrational, or just playful mocking ... Paintings a pictorial naturalness where every brushstroke is in the right place and where each color says and gives her space to time that goes beyond its horizon. And even where there is the contrast of colors, it seems to re-emerge even other colors and shades, as if to signify that even if the colors are not seen are still within the perceptual world of being and existence. Faces and images painted with very sinuous and almost surreal in the ability to settle on the canvas without misled by a millimeter: the canvas at the bottom is that space where time, the dynamic, the form and substance of things have their bond. Is the artist with his talent to know how to say it in so little space. Stephanie Seymour succeeds naturally and those who can enjoy the great creative power of this woman, will understand perfectly what is hidden to most people, being able to sense the ultimate expression of the self, potential that takes the form of the soul. This is the true art of Seymour: grasp the essence and dynamics dispute of the things that are interwoven and which seem to have no links ... But instead they thin the bond of life and union with the transcendence of reality with reality transcendent that becomes part of the new and unique in time monograms and color, space and synchronicity, interiority and consciousness, self-irony and pure actuality. All thickened by crystalline colors, effective, full of shiny softness, the colors defined but that capture the human soul polychrome, radiated from the look with which the heart rests and dips into reality. snapshot of a busy life that makes Seymour a real artist, a real big woman, who always offers us new answers before questions. With the taste of wonder. Sarah Minciotti - Agency Print Italy
THE OTHER SIDE.
AGENZIA
STAMPA ITALIA
(ASI)
Perugia - Anyone wishing to embark on a meaningful journey in art astonishment
through the emotions of color, shapes, varied content that painting gives off,
can very well do so by going to visit the exhibition "The Other Side"
by American artist Stephanie Seymour at Gaia Gallery in Papiano
(Marsciano-Perugia), on display from October 15 to November 20, 2016 with
opening hours every day from 10 to 13 and from 16 to 19.30.
The
event is curated by Pino Bonanno and has been placed in the context of the
Twelfth "Contemporary Day" established by AMACI. (For information and
contacts: www.artfarmgaia.it; tel. 3473652984).
The
works of Stephanie Seymour all have an unbreakable bond: depth and color,
colors are strong and determined as ecstasy imprints art of this painter not
only essential but more ironic sometimes. playful woman, an interrogater,
restless and curious as in the character of healthy children when the great questions
about the world, the surrounding scenery, the equations and the enigmas of life
are the essential lifeblood to find out the reality. His paintings tell of
lives that intersect with ours, while we pause to learn their contours
observing the manifold production of this artist of California at Los Angeles
who lives in Umbria for many years.
Paradoxes
repeated in most iconographic forms of figures that are imprinted on the canvas
as to radiate the static restless of life, the dynamics of the eternal return
of the equation or never stable of concepts that transpire from perfection,
from irregularities of exposed people.
For
this painter, illustrator and American photographer is not (only) an
exponential multiplication, but existential: Who is man? Or who is Stephanie Seymour?
In "The Other Side" there are questions not only about the artist in question but above all on themselves. The man who investigates through looks, poses, eyes that is 'wide open' in the mirror without ever reaching a solution, is the man that yes, it looks from the outside, but from within is the real star of life , of what he sees and what he lives. There never is a separation between artist and the observer that creativity produces never parish. Stephanie Seymour offers a 'world' in which she herself is a reflection of all of us, as well as art is life in all its complexity, in every color, intense or dull, rational or irrational, or just playful mocking ... Paintings a pictorial naturalness where every brushstroke is in the right place and where each color says and gives her space to time that goes beyond its horizon. And even where there is the contrast of colors, it seems to re-emerge even other colors and shades, as if to signify that even if the colors are not seen are still within the perceptual world of being and existence. Faces and images painted with very sinuous and almost surreal in the ability to settle on the canvas without misled by a millimeter: the canvas at the bottom is that space where time, the dynamic, the form and substance of things have their bond. Is the artist with his talent to know how to say it in so little space. Stephanie Seymour succeeds naturally and those who can enjoy the great creative power of this woman, will understand perfectly what is hidden to most people, being able to sense the ultimate expression of the self, potential that takes the form of the soul. This is the true art of Seymour: grasp the essence and dynamics dispute of the things that are interwoven and which seem to have no links ... But instead they thin the bond of life and union with the transcendence of reality with reality transcendent that becomes part of the new and unique in time monograms and color, space and synchronicity, interiority and consciousness, self-irony and pure actuality. All thickened by crystalline colors, effective, full of shiny softness, the colors defined but that capture the human soul polychrome, radiated from the look with which the heart rests and dips into reality. snapshot of a busy life that makes Seymour a real artist, a real big woman, who always offers us new answers before questions. With the taste of wonder. Sarah Minciotti - Agency Print Italy
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