{"id":1124,"date":"2014-07-16T01:42:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkinggrid.com\/dev\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2014-07-16T01:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:42:42","slug":"art-chat-artist-terri-amig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/art-chat-artist-terri-amig\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Chat with Artist Terri Amig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday,\u00a0I had the most exciting art chat with artist,\u00a0<\/span>Terry Amig<\/a>. \u00a0She abides Somewhere Pretty and Rural, in New Jersey, on the east coast of the United States. \u00a0Amig is known as an independent working woman, making art which she defines in terms of excellence; which may or may not be readily\u00a0accessible to the jaded, the inexperienced, and\/or cursory observer. \u00a0Thus, her work is a HOT SECRET, between us. Or is it a torch leading the\u00a0benighted toward the opening of the cave, toward the radiant sunlight?<\/span><\/p>\n

Stick around\u2026 you might learn something\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amig\u2019s work captures the sacred spark, the glowing ember, the\u00a0<\/span>elemental<\/em>\u00a0in, at-first-glance innocuous animal portraiture. \u00a0Yes, animal portraits\u2026 I know, this is NOT the kind of thing\u2026 that urban\u00a0<\/span>hipster<\/span>s dream of hanging above their beds, on the cracked walls of their hemmed in love shacks. \u00a0No. \u00a0This is fine art for thinkers; humans ready to arise and awake, from stupor of mind, dancing away from the\u00a0prevalence of contemporary art cheap tricks, overnight,\u00a0\u201csensations,\u201d\u00a0and other fleeting fancies<\/span>, which in our distinctly intoxicating times, heady days of lush entertainments and dazzling circuses galore, all on-line and ready to be downloaded with a click\u2026\u00a0to the deep brown eyes of a (perfectly rendered, highly yet not hyper realistic) cow, wet and sparkling like the self regenerating and spiritually renewing\u00a0water on the original well\u2019s glittering surface; painted faithfully to fool the eye and seduce the viewer into a conversation with the infinite\u2026 a reminder of the\u00a0depth of love which animates us. \u00a0Each living being represents the outcome of a miracle, an explosion, a sparkling spray of cosmic water. \u00a0Kaboom! The birth of beauty; as represented in ancient mythology and in later literature is frequently that which happens at the site\u00a0where the ocean kisses the earth and there from the sea foam; perfection springs. \u00a0Somehow, Amig addresses the spirituality and vulnerability of the viewer with a mirror image an equally valuable soul in encased in the body of \u201cbeast of burden.\u201d \u00a0Inviting questions about one\u2019s own\u00a0\u201cFarmed Animal,\u201d status.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amig is pure energy; a bright white flame in the cold icy night of nothingness, which may be precisely why she is so firm and secure in her artistic vision. \u00a0She charts her own course and conducts meticulous multi-level spiritually charged excavations into meaning; discovering, renewing, and recovering the underlying truth which makes her work to par with the great Ad Reinhardt\u2019s, an abstractionist focused on pure form and color; entirely non-objective art\u2026whose work is virtually faultless and offers a bench mark for excellence in another visual language; almost diametrically opposed to Amig\u2019s representational work; yet as rich and deep; like the ocean and the fruits of her ongoing investigations; Amig pours \u00a0into her work, thus\u00a0imbuing it with the eerie life that classical painters of lore, mastered. \u00a0 She is refreshingly youthful, brimming with vitality, with ice blond curls and sapphire eyes, she has a\u00a0\u201cRoman nose,\u201d according to all accounts. \u00a0Her passion for life and for painting fiercely, from a place of deep full-time mindful\u00a0conscious art practice, is evident in every nearly invisible wondrous strokes of smoothly applied paint. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Amig\u2019s laser focus, and unwavering determination to create, make it a snap to distinguish her work from that of others.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amig, whose name issues an invitation of friendship with the earth, a woman\/artist with a message; conducting extensive personal research into\u00a0the sources of life; reproduced into polished art works of enduring charm. \u00a0Amig courts the life-giving forces; she is out in the\u00a0field, in the larger world, asking questions and being of service to the ones fortunate to have her nearby\u2026 thank goodness for the telephone\u2026 thank goodness for methods of communication, painting included, from which all\u00a0quantity and quality of life experience and ancient understanding, may suddenly, spring and be shared in cups of casual intimate informal art-chat here on Talkinggrid and elsewhere;\u00a0where it matters and encourages LIFE.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its\u00a0unending diversity and emotional interest; I\u2019d readily label\u00a0Amig’s work as\u00a0\u201cContemporary Treasure,\u201d booty for those LOOKING for art with SOUL, salvation, maybe for those looking for a well\u00a0dressed\u00a0emperor\u2026\u00a0\u201cThere is no Emperor,\u201d Amig informed me. \u00a0This fact, which the unenlightened might pass by, is the key to understanding the “secret ingredient,\u201d the magical quality of Amig\u2019s work, \u00a0which is informed with an interest in the stories of epic magnitude, handed down from one generation to the next, to be are embedded in Amig\u2019s artist\u00a0<\/span>ouvre. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Amig\u00a0<\/span>packs more meaning into painting designed to be decoded only by the eyes, hearts, minds, which remain WIDE OPEN to the new within traditional painting; which pushed aside\u00a0for the cheap thrills of sloppy chops, paint spray (which don\u2019t get me wrong, I love\u2026) or chewing gum\u00a0installations\u2026 are not silenced but rather, distinguished and rendered even more worthy of respectful attention by ernest reflection.<\/span><\/p>\n

The basis of her production is cemented in the reality of excellent technique, finish; Amig is a classically trained painter that did her stint at Cal Arts; so is versed in postmodernism and conceptual practices\u2026 up-to-date; showing regularly and with a solid\u00a0career of art production behind her; Amig staunchly refuses to abide by existing dogma which prescribes or apparently\u00a0delineates what is and\u00a0what is not vogue art. \u00a0She is burns bright and steady; fueling a simmering following, which may boil over into fame, if not carefully managed and avoided, Amig might find herself stranded on the high peaks of chilly STARDOM; splashed by praise, and surround by oceans of admirers\u2026\u00a0\u00a0of those ready to see contemporary painting worthy of study, immersion created by a\u00a0brilliant woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brava, Amig! \u00a0I salute YOU!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Love,<\/span><\/p>\n

Frau Kolb<\/span><\/p>\n

***Remember to faithfully call the geniuses that populate your world, from time to time connecting with their tender spirits; beings far away, these cherished friends, \u00a0are sources of\u00a0experience and inspiration\u2026 Yes, indeed Frau Kolb recommends you devote time to the telephoning of Muses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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