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EXCHANGE: Amy Rice and Marya Hornbacher in conversation about art and the disordered mind (Part Two)

By Marya Hornbacher and Amy Rice — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT

The second installment of a dialogue between Amy Rice, acclaimed painter and Spectrum Artworks Director, and Marya Hornbacher, critically hailed author of the forthcoming memoir,"Madness: A Life," on the interplay between art and the disordered mind.

image: Marya Hornbacher

image: Wasted jacket cover

image: Center of Winter

image: Amy Rice

image: Dormant

image: Pro-Pear

image: Ella As a Rabbit

image: Big Fat Red Bird

image: Compassion with Cherry Blossoms

image: Ellen and the Brave New Chicken

image: Cake

image: Bundled with Bunny

image: Feeding the Habit

image: Fisher Price Angel

image: Hungry

image: Ashly and Anxious Bird

image: Last Days for Ice Cream at the Park

image: Meghan Catches the Brave New Chicken

image: Red Mitten

image: New Wallpaper

image: Some Days Even Your Underwear Match

image: Spring

image: Pink Anemone and Caterpillar

image: War Kills Kids

image: Water Hole Cabinet Door

image: Three Species of Anemone

EXCHANGE: A dialogue on art and the mind between visual artist Amy Rice and writer Marya Hornbacher

By Amy Rice and Marya Hornbacher — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT

Amy Rice, acclaimed painter and Spectrum Artworks Director, and Marya Hornbacher, critically hailed author of the forthcoming memoir,"Madness: A Life," let us in on a frank dialogue about the connection between an artist's work and state of mind.

image: Photo of Amy Rice

image: Marya Hornbacher

image: Wasted jacket

image: Center of Winter

image: Compassion

image: Learn to Play

image: Dormant

image: Discovering Fuzzy

image: Olivia and Olivia's Mom

image: Make a Wish

image: Sheep

image: Bundled

image: Anemone Triptych

image: Tiny Crown

image: You Can Hold the Bunny

image: Tote

image: Prize Pear

image: Lepidoperist

image: Mutual Reprimand

image: Hope

image: Ed Finds a Cupcake

image: Feeding the Habit

image: Bird Attester

Exchange: a conversation on painting with Ute Bertog

Ruben Nusz — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT

mnartists.org continues its series of artist-to-artist conversations, this time with artist Ruben Nusz and German-born, MN painter Ute Bertog, on the relationship between language and painting, the merits of Amy Sillman and the perks of miscommunication.

image: Ute Bertog, "Don't Worry About Grammar Yet," oil on canvas, 2009.

image: Ute Bertog, "The Big Squeeze," acrylic gouache on panel, 2010

image: In Bertog's studio

image: Works in progress

image: Materials of the trade

image: New work by Bertog

image: New work

image: Wilhelm Sasnal, "Girl Smoking (Anka)," oil on canvas, 2001

image: Amy Sillman, "Suitors," oil on canvas, 2001

Exchange: a conversation on painting with Bruce Tapola

Ruben Nusz — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT

In the first of a series of informal, artist-to-artist interviews on practice, Ruben Nusz and Bruce Tapola chat about painting - the uncertain terrain of critical value and success, material inspirations and the benefits of "slow looking."

image: Inside Tapola's studio

image: Bruce Tapola, "Discussion Group"

image: Bruce Tapola

image: Inside Tapola's studio

image: Another in-studio shot

image: Bruce Tapola

image: Bruce Tapola

LITERATURE: The Miracle Tour Confessions, Part 2

Geoff Herbach and Sam Osterhout — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Debut novelist Geoff Herbach and his buddy and fellow writer Sam Osterhout offer up another installment in their quirky, always entertaining road diary of their time across the country on a book tour for "The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg."

image: Sam at Hilton

image: Days Inn, Lakewood

The Miracle Tour Confessions, Part I

Geoff Herbach and Sam Osterhout — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Debut novelist Geoff Herbach sets off with his buddy and Electric Arc Radio castmate, Sam Osterhout, on a book tour around the country. Over the course of the next few weeks, Geoff and Sam will be sending in a road diary documenting their travels.

image: Geoff

image: Propane Tanks

image: Sam