Katrina Five Years Later II for New Orleans Magazine.
Left: “101 Theory Drive” for the Los Angeles Times Book Review; right: “Road to Manhood” for the Los Angeles Times, [CA ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL 51].
Author Ina Coobrith for California Magazine. [NYC Society of Illustrators 53rd Annual].
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Campaign Spotlight: Joseph Daniel Fiedler
Musings on nature and aesthetic philosophies
Joseph Daniel Fiedler, or Scaryjoey as many know him, fills sketchbooks with paintings of lettuce leaves and trees, salamanders and turtles. He is a keen observer of the animals that thrive in the woods surrounding the rural home in Northern California he calls Pinewoods Studio, including the silver foxes that live in the forest behind. From a lowly mud puppy to a grizzly with a sore tooth, Fiedler captures the spirit of the animal with respect and affectionate humor.
On Facebook, he posts photos of bear scat found near his home, and discusses storms and animal sightings with great joy and interest. Nature surrounds him and he delights in its vagaries and surprises. He has lived for long stretches in isolated places where there is not much distraction from the nature that envelops them, such as Taos, NM, of which he wrote on his blog, “It was my very own world filled with blue skies, blue tailed skinks, Mountain Bluebirds, Lazuli Buntings, Taos Blue [I even knew a guy named Blue!], Kiva Fireplaces, awesome red or green chile sauces and Piñon smoke.”
Fiedler was born and raised in Pennsylvania and he has lived in Tokyo, New Mexico, Michigan and California. Since 1973 he has made his living as an artist-illustrator-educator.
He fuses his philosophy and love of nature into editorial illustrations for clients including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times to Tufts Medical Center, New Orleans Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and Arizona Highways.
He has received many professional awards, including a Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators, two ADDY awards, two Golden Quill Awards, two Gold Medals and four Silver Medals from the Broadcasting Design Awards (International), and a Gold Medal and Merit from the 4th Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards. In addition, numerous publications such as Graphis, Print, Communication Arts, American Illustration, the Society of Publication Designers, The Spectrum International Annual of Fantastic Art, Luerzer’s Archive and Taschen Publishing have recognized his distinctive work. His paintings have been shown in over 75 gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the United States, Germany and Japan.
He was deeply influenced by the years he spent in Japan. Fiedler explains, “While living in Tokyo in the late 1980’s I had the opportunity to experience Japanese culture firsthand. I was fortunate to accompany my former wife who was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and grant from the Japan Foundation. I immediately connected with the aesthetic taste of the Japanese. I was influenced by such concepts as Wabi (quiet taste) Sabi (rust or tarnish) and Shabui (somber, quiet color-taste), derived from the art of tea ceremony. The rubric of Chado forms the foundation of the Japanese aesthetic lexicon and it seemed like a natural fit with my notions of how “art” should look. My work continues to reflect those core attributes.
“My mixed media works on paper and canvas explore the natural world and man’s place in it by creating an articulated scrim of observations and ruminations combined with pensive, lyrical vignettes. Some paintings parody the field-and-stream school of mantelpiece art, while others imagine a world in which ducks’ heads grow on foliage or plants imitate bird forms. I synthesize my own ideas with nature and history concocting a narrative replete with the subtle appropriation of cultural influences. Casual drawing, surface defacement and layering put the image into a frame of historical reference, endowing it with accretion, both physically and intellectually, in a completely unexpected way. I acknowledge a kinship with the aesthetics of Chado or Japanese tea ceremony, which evokes an appreciation for the passage of time and the abrasion of life, whereby the patina of age connotes reflection on the temporal aspects of existence.”
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P-Jay Fidler, Irrecoverable Admiration, oils, 19 x 9.5 inches.
Leon Ferrari, Pintura guta sobre tela estampada, Courtesy of Adriana Budich, Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires.
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What's Hanging
Exhibitions of note nationwide.
Lowbrow Life
Through March 12
CoproGallery
Bergamot Arts Complex
2525 Michigan Ave. T5
Santa Monica, CA
www.CoproGallery.com
Six modern Low Brow style painters present their best work: New paintings by P-J Fidler, Bob Doucette, TIN, Keith Weesner, Leslie Ditto and Chrystal Chan. P-Jay Fidler’s art is a non-linear narrative reflecting a mix of adolescent archetypes with dark aspects of the human condition, they are at once mythological and deeply personal—the viewer brings their own story into play with these dynamic paintings. Bob Doucette is the director of many animated children’s programs, and has worn many hats from artist to puppeteer, to songwriter. TIN is a commercial fisherman turned artist, influenced by Steam punk. Keith Weesner is a painter and illustrator obsessed with car culture, cinematic settings and vampy women (perfect for Southern California!). Leslie Ditto creates beautiful oil paintings that fuse Old Masters’ techniques with influences from fantasy art. Chrystal Chan incorporates her fascination with the spiritual world into her art.
Art Naples International Contemporary Art Fair
March 18th-21st
Naples International Pavilion
4835 Immokalee Road
Naples, Fl
www.ifae.com
International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) announces the first annual Art Naples International Contemporary Art Fair to take place at the newly renovated Naples International Pavilion, March 18th-21st, 2011with a Preview evening Thursday, March 17th to benefit the Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art.
Art Naples will present over 45 international art dealers and special exhibitions from the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia, as well as leading Southwest Florida contemporary dealers representing over 1,200 works of art by 300 artists spanning the 20th century to the present. The fair will feature paintings, sculpture, photography, design, fine art glass, video and installations from a bevy of established museum-collected artists as well as some of today’s most promising emerging artists. All of the works of art are for sale.
The fair will feature works from modern and contemporary icons Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Robert Indiana, Frankenthaler, Botero, Frank Stella, Chuck Close, Cruz-Diez, Motherwell, Tom Wesselmann, Jim Dine, Rosenquist; sculptors John Chamberlin, Lynn Chadwick, Albert Paley, Howard Ben Tre, Hanneke Beaumont , Botero and Javier Marin; fine art glass artists Dale Chihuly, Daniel Clayman, Davide Salvadore, Ann Wolff, Dan Dailey, John Kuhn, Tim Tate and Toots Zynsky. A special exhibition of the design works of Pedro Friedeberg will be curated by Graciela Kartofel.
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13 Words, by Lemony Snicket and Maira Kalman.
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Good Books
A brief review of notable titles and inspiring monographs.
13 Words, by Lemony Snicket and Maira Kalman, published by Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, October 2010, 40 pages, hardcover, $16.99.
www.harpercollins.com
OK, ostensibly this book is for children, but I found the surreal premise—13 words, 13 deemed a number so unlucky that there is no 13th floor on an elevator, unless you count the name of Roky Erickson’s band—and Lemony Snicket’s slightly twisted storytelling to be a nice respite from the world’s more serious news. Combine the words “bird”, “despondent”, “cake” and “hat”, not to mention “goat” and “scarlet”, add in acclaimed illustrator Maira Kalman’s delightful, colorful paintings, and you have the antidote to boredom. Who knows, perhaps you will find yourself painting 11 ladders one day.
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Good Surfing
A few hot breaks to check out while surfing the net.
www.aiga.org — Pivot: AIGA Design Conference will take place October 13-16 at the Phoenix Convention Center. AIGA’s national conferences offer a who’s who of design talent. Moderator Kurt Andersen promises to keep things witty and fresh. I know many top illustrators who attend design conferences to meet and network with clients and friends. FYI, the deadline for AIGA’s Annual Design Competitions is March 10.
www.hartfordillustration.com — The University of Hartford Art School hosts the only Low Residency MFA program in the country dedicated exclusively to illustration. This prestigious program designed for illustration and design professionals looking to stimulate their careers, while maintaining their professional commitments, is directed by legendary illustrator Murray Tinkelman and boasts instructors such as C.F. Payne, Nancy Stahl and Gary Kelley. Browse their blog, Squint, and then check out their freshly redesigned web site when it launches this spring.
www.cmykmag.com — CMYK's February issue celebrates "Illustration" as the magazine covers some of the most prolific professionals working today. They have also expanded the Illustration Gallery in their "Top New Creatives #49" to feature even more award-winning work from talented emerging artists. You can order it online for $9.99.
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Industry Advice
Advice from an industry of one, but a determined one.
While marketing advisor Davia Temin wrote this information for CEOs and other business leaders, it is valuable and practical advice that is applicable to everyone in this media-saturated age, artists included. Common sense, and a bit of patience, can prevent embarrassing gaffes. And it is true that once something is out there on the “vast interwebs” as my husband likes to call the Internet, it does not go away. Think before you hit the return key. It’s good advice for my 15-year-old daughter, and it equally applies to the rest of us!
10 Ways Leaders Can Protect Their Reputations in 2011
“2010 was remarkable for its series of public gaffes made by CEOs and other leaders that shattered organizations, share price, job tenure, coastlines, and even religious tolerance,” says reputation, crisis, and marketing advisor Davia Temin, CEO of Temin and Company. “In 2011, we can learn from their mistakes in order to protect our own reputations.”
“Of course,” she adds, “one way to never need to protect your reputation is to live a totally invisible and blameless life—but most leaders who wish to accomplish something significant are visible, and do make mistakes. So, culled from 25 years working in the field of reputation and crisis management at the highest levels, and seeing almost every gaffe imaginable, here are my top 10 ways for leaders to protect their reputations—and their legacies—in 2011.”
1. There is no such thing as privacy anymore. Act as if your every action, every email, every conversation will be observed and judged. From WikiLeaks posting tens of thousands of confidential diplomatic wires to Fabrice Tourre’s midnight emails; from Mark Hurd’s exaggerated expense accounts at HP and Tony Hayward’s exhausted plea that he wanted “his life back” to video cameras positioned on every corner and private acts caught and posted on YouTube, almost everything is discoverable today. So, begin to factor this into your every communication and action. Remember, it might all come back to haunt you, and what you have said or done might not be interpreted generously by your critics!
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