{"id":173,"date":"2013-02-15T11:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/?p=173"},"modified":"2013-02-15T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:59:58","slug":"local-artist-speaks-at-grubbs-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/2013\/02\/15\/local-artist-speaks-at-grubbs-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Artist Speaks at Grubbs Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Tiepolo's Dream," by Stern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe only way for me to know what I\u2019m doing, and do it again, is to let chance come into the equation,\u201d said Northampton artist Chuck Stern.\u00a0 This may sound contradictory, but, in his work, Stern puts emphasis on the evolving nature of creativity.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften it\u2019s the things that are so beautiful that create a block,\u201d he said.\u00a0 Likening his painting process to writing Stern said, \u201cSometimes you put a sentence down, and it\u2019s so cool, and you just want it there but the whole rest of the story is stuck with this sentence that has no relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cblocking\u201d imagery is covered in his art with white paint and then erased, to let the life of the painting continue.\u00a0 But if you look closely, Stern leaves the white paint light enough to, \u201clet the history of the painting show through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the way he describes his process so well, and encourages students to slow down and think of their work in terms of visual \u2018problems\u2019 to be solved,\u201d said Natania Hume, Grubbs Gallery curator and a member of the Fine and Performing Arts faculty.<\/p>\n

When Stern paints he approaches the canvas by asking himself, \u201cWhat\u2019s next?\u201d\u00a0 In the end he likes his paintings to be cohesive, but during the creative process he views his work as puzzles with a life of their own, he said.<\/p>\n

Stern described the way he navigates his paintings as similar to camping before the invention of GPS and cell phones.\u00a0 One student said he liked, \u201chow [Stern) lets go and sees where the painting takes him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe only way for me to know what I\u2019m doing, and do it again, is to let chance come into the equation,\u201d said Northampton artist Chuck Stern.\u00a0 This may sound contradictory, but, in his work, Stern puts emphasis on the evolving nature of creativity. \u201cOften it\u2019s the things that are so beautiful that create a … Continue reading Local Artist Speaks at Grubbs Gallery<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,142],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-news","tag-chuck-stern","tag-grubbs-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}