Ted stanuga's Page

Website

www.stanuga.com

Relationship status

single

College / University

school of the art institute of chicago/University Of Great Falls, Great Falls Montana

Program

painting and printmaking

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Painting, Printmaking

I am...

About my artwork

I basically have no idea of what I am going to paint when I begin. Those many times when I was certain at the beginning..... of the ending, the works turned out to be horrid and the process bored me to tears. In keeping the meaning ahead of my process what happens instead is that I have to catch up with the work eventually to get the meaning.... this happens continually throughout the life of the work, and titles will come along with an understanding of why I was making those marks. My hope is that this also happens with the viewer and when the work is at it's best, a culturally sustainable message of actualization is the result.

Artists I like

Joan Mitchell, non-figurative deKooning, non-drip Pollack, Jasper Johns, Pablo, Juan Gris, Kandinsky, Elizabeth Murray, Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Tapies, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, and these are just a few off the cuff. The Spanish painters, Coton, Zubaran, oh just too many to name, I love painting. The California School of Abstraction out of San Francisco late 50's early 60's is what initially inspired me.

Interests

I mean really what a question....everything from Chess to Politics all of the arts, labor issues, human beings and what they make, how they feel, what they inspire and all the animals and plants that support them, and the music that makes them dance, weep, and soar.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Hopper, Winslow Homer, AIC. Chicago Illinois

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere

My artreview.com URL:
http://www.artreview.com/profile/tedstanuga
You can use this URL in your email, on your website, or on your facebook profile.