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Art House, The Rise of Chicago’s Apartment Galleries By Dee Clements Written in March 2010 for New Heroes Magazine
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Some photos from my studio opening…
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Last Sunday afternoon I had a studio opening as part of a building wide art walk. All of the art studios on my building were open to the public. I showed some of my most recent new paintings. Here are a few photos from folks who stopped by my studio…
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
At the studio and I am stuck on this painting. Sitting here, staring at it, pondering where to go next, I saw threads in the drips. I walked over to my table of thread and began to drape them on the wall, drawing as I would if I were painting…
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Untitled (Spring), 26″ x 39″, encaustic, gouache, graphite on paper, by Dee Clements 2010
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
works in progress
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Houses
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
I think about houses a lot. I day dream about them a lot too. I grew up in a really poor family and we always lived in apartments or duplexes or rented places. We never had a house that was ours that we could etch our heights in the wood…
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Reading a little about encaustic painting today, which is heating and mixing bee’s wax and pigment and painting with it. Encaustic painting is a particular style I am really interested in and would like to experiment with. Today I went to the art supply store to buy materials. Quite pricey
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Read more »The Life & Times of Bernard Suarez
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
I made these little drawings years ago as preliminary sketches for a much larger project. Bernardo Soares is a character in a novel called ‘The Book Of Disquietude’ by Fernando Pessoa. While reading this book I got the idea to develop some of the minor characters and make small drawings…
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