Mark Lambert on Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles

Mark Lambert, Restoration Mechanic, Automotive Historian, and owner of Lambert Auto in Nashville, Tennessee, talks about Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, an exhibition on view at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts June 14 through September 15, 2013. Sensuous Steel is an exhibition of Art Deco automobiles from some of the most renowned car collections in the United States.

Inspired by the Frist Center's historic Art Deco building, this exhibition features spectacular automobiles and motorcycles from the 1930s and '40s that exemplify the classic elegance, luxurious materials, and iconography of motion that characterizes vehicles influenced by the Art Deco style.

Learn more about the exhibition at www.fristcenter.org/artdecoautos.

Is Art Sexy? Does Art Replace Heaven & Hell As A Metaphor For Immortality

What do you see when you look at Gill Miller's Art?

Why does an artist paint? What drives an artist to put paint down on a canvas? What is the driving force to create? These are not new questions, certainly. For me it is the desire to express myself through beauty, form, color and composition. Do I think my art is sexy? Yes, actually I do. I think sexuality and sexual-ness is expressed in many things, and art is foremost in that method of expression. Ultimately, the sheer joy of creating something that potentially is visually and physically around in the long term, or maybe even permanently in this world, is a strong motivation. Honestly, it is a sense of immortality. Which is pretty good for someone who tried for years, but could never really believe in Heaven & Hell.

Tuesday Night is one of my latest spray acrylic paintings. The round form continues to be a hallmark of my art. I love the rhythm and the flow of the round object or form and the movement that it implies. In this painting I injected a fair amount of dark neutral colors which I think creates a nice balance with the brighter colors. Red is definitely the star here, which is one of my favorite hues. The pattern in the large red shape derives from a dark pattern underneath which I didn't really intentionally intend for it to show through as I painted over it with red, but I think it adds a really great sense of depth and visual texture.

Los Angeles Art Association

Last year about this time I was accepted into The Los Angeles Art Association. This institution has been around for 90 years and is instrumental in nurturing an artist's career trajectory. From critique groups, of which I'm a member of one, to numerous art exhibits at its Gallery 825 in West Hollywood, CA, to seminars several times a year that educate the artist about the art world, collectors, and personal growth as an artist, I highly recommend this organization to any artist that is interested in artistic growth. LAAA, as it is known, has several Membership Drives every year where the artist can submit their art, and if accepted, they will have access to its many benefits. The seminars are available to non-members as well.

Attached is their website with all of the contact information.

LAAA 

Gill Miller New Art-Functional Art

This is painted furniture like you've likely never seen it.

Functional art. One of a kind, custom tables. 

Painted furniture goes back in time several centuries 

and were popular in many different cultures.  

This is an update. 

This is for the 21st century.

Gill Miller-Los Angeles Art Association

Gill Miller is now a member of Los Angeles Art Association

New Art by Gill Miller

The importance of open space on a canvas is illustrated here by Gill Miller. "Learning how to create a cohesive, balanced and engaging composition with so much open space has taken me 5 years to learn," says Gill. "For me, anyway, it's always been a natural inclination to cover the whole canvas with shapes and objects, and relying on those to construct the composition. This just takes a lot more forethought".