Unbound Art

Happy New Year! Sketchbook page, ink drawing by Kim Schrag

Hello friends ! This is a funding appeal intended to facilitate the production of a major project: a live video/concert fruit of the collaboration among three Ithaca-area artists: Peter Dodge, composer; Bryan Root, filmmaker; and Fernando Llosa, visual artist. A short feature film may also be in the works.   The title of the piece — An All-Inclusive Presence— was originally given by Fernando to a limited edition book containing an essay and a set of images selected from a large body of ink paintings made between 2004 and 2013. At the heart of that work pulse two essential and intertwined observations. One is that our long-standing identification with limited, contradictory, and extremely divisive forms of personal and tribal consciousness has alienated us from the mystery of life, the fundamental source of the human presence in the cosmos. And the other is that, unless we somehow manage to overcome this estrangement from our natural and common ground, we will continue to l...

Open Studio Kim Schrag and Fernando Llosa  Saturday and Sunday,  September 24 and 25 11-6 both days 32 Elm Street, Trumansburg Fernando is currently in collaboration with Peter Dodge and Bryan Root to produce a new piece titled, An Inclusive Presence. Those of you who are interested in helping to make this major new art, music, and video concert project become a reality, will be able to purchase any of Fernando's paintings, prints, stone poems or photographs with a significant discount. He will also have on display digital prints made from the glass plate paintings that will be featured in  An Inclusive Presence ,   in exchange for a donation of $50.  (By the way this offer is valid from September 20 to December 31. Please e-mail if you need to schedule another time.) You can get a glimpse of what this video-concert will look and sound like by clicking here: An Inclusive Presence  ...

For Jan Morning glories blooming on the garden gate. Still waiting

I have a new book called In the Distance, Small Beings .  It has reproductions of 24 small acrylic paintings.    I also have a new edition of Life Dancing Life , printed on heavier paper than the first printing.   Both can be purchased at Lulu  for $35. If you would rather come to the studio I will have a limited number of copies available and you can see the original artwork as well as many other paintings. Just send me a message and we'll find a time. Thanks - you are the patron! Kim  Endless Construction From the book In the Distance, Small Beings Water, Water, Everywhere  Surrounded by What We Seek From the book, Life Dancing Life

Who Will Remember Humanity?  acrylic on board Beneath the Layers  oil on board The Landscape of Thought acrylic on board My friend Judy Wood has recently been putting her paintings in the forest and this inspired me to try some new places to display. So here are a few paintings next to other favorite objects. Will this replace the gallery?

sketchbook page  by Kim Schrag