A friend and I reflect that the ability to translate an idea from your sphere of art into someone else’s is one test of how good the idea is. And that often it gets better, or more interesting, in the translation. He says this is the same as with intellectual ideas, that if you can explain them between disciplines, they are strengthened. I know it helps me to try to tell him what I’m thinking. It’s hard, but worth the effort.

What would an idea be that you couldn’t explain to someone else? Would there be value in cultivating such ideas, so specific to genre (or self) that they couldn’t be moved?

One of my friends has a group show, Searching For Clarity, at the Art Rental & Sales Gallery at LACMA. I thought I’d put the information up here. Bruce is the parent of my oldest friend, Tyler, and a brilliant abstract artist. I’ve never put an image on my blog before, but here’s one of his paintings, Occulation.

The simplistic imagery in Bruce Dean’s current series of spheres, conjunctions, and eclipses uses mixed media on paper to tap into the memories and ideas we all share at a subconscious level.

The Art Rental & Sales Gallery at LACMA is open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm, and the show runs through July 17.

“More Americans identify their primary occupation as artist than as lawyer, doctor, police officer or farm worker.”
(NEA census on who and where the artists are. CA and NY, no surprise.) Created a category for “art” with this post.