SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!
March. Women'shistory month. I'll begin my annual celebration by writing about a guy who loves women! --He thinks that 'Women and flowers are God's greatest projects!"--In fact, Jerry Tollifson, State Art Education, Consultant Emeritus, was recently asked to remove his female
totems, sculptures, from a Westerville Gallery. Fearing a lawsuit he removed the sculptures almost immediately!
Nothing succeeds like notoriety. When I spoke to Tollifson on February 29, he said that The Other Paper had taken up his cause, and as a result, one of his "censored" nudes had sold almost immediately.--Like the next day! (I haven't read The Other Paper article yet, but I shall! They're usually right on target in that sort of matter)
Tollifson goes to church each Sunday. I didn't ask where.--And afterward, still wearing church-appropriate suit and tie, he visits the Ohio Art League where, among frayed jeaned paint spattered artists, he practices drawing and painting from live nude models.
"Yes," he admitted, "So far all of the nude models have been women, and some of the women artists say there should be men models too."--Right on!
In his letter to me Tollifson , in describing himself, wrote " a problem has arisen. Tollifson
has been suffering from an identity crisis. He doesn't quite know whether he identifies more
with Larry Flint, the pornographer and publisher of Hustler magazine, or with Michael Angelo, the 15th century artist whose nude paintings were objected to by officials of the Catholic Church at the time.--Apparently Tollifson's crisis has been resolved by hismaking a choice of identity, for when last seen he was searching for places where he could purchase fig leaves."
YOU TOO can work from live models at the Ohio Art League Sundays 1 to 4 pm. It's not necessary to reserve, but for more information call theOAL at 614-299 8225. Jerry Tollifson's
Fabulous Flowers will be shown at a one man show at Inniswood Park during August, 2008.
The artist is a big tall guy with a lot of cool white hair, and he often wears what is, or is similar to, a white panama suit, like the one the author Tom Wolfe wears.--Perhaps Jerry should pose fully clothed, for a Sunday afternoon modeling session.--Jerry, on a grayday your letter was a breath of fresh air!
ELECTRIC LADIES : Last month I was reborn, renascent as poet Edna St VincentMillay would say, when I visited Electric Lady Land at Mahan Gallery, 717 N.High. (More than once!) Liz Markus lives in New York and her large"Protector " abstracts were to die for!
The peripheral remarks by Colleen Grannen, co director and gallery guide, informed me, beamed me up! Grannen's sense of Now and Then and Popular Culture was, indeed, a breath of fresh air. Kime (Kimmy)Buzzelli, now of L.A.,blew me away with her big neo romantic fashion drawings.--Well, romantic is a non linear state of time and mind). Lithe women,"retro flower women,"Grannen explained. Figures, graceful and lyrical, cutting edge, on big paper. Flowers tendrils,stenciled on walls by Kime Buzzelli herself. The woman is an NFL running back! (New Fashion Life.)--I found Kime's blogg. I wanted to visit Show Pony in L.A.! I wanted to be young and thin, like those lithe sixties women on Kime's big papers. Iraq was blowing up. More Ohioans were losing jobs. But Liz Markus had painted abstracts in honor of such icons asJim Hendryx (sp) and John Lennon,who wore helmets and goggles or dark glasses, and were,as Colleen said, "protectors."-- I want to live in Electric Lady Land, even if only part time!
totems, sculptures, from a Westerville Gallery. Fearing a lawsuit he removed the sculptures almost immediately!
Nothing succeeds like notoriety. When I spoke to Tollifson on February 29, he said that The Other Paper had taken up his cause, and as a result, one of his "censored" nudes had sold almost immediately.--Like the next day! (I haven't read The Other Paper article yet, but I shall! They're usually right on target in that sort of matter)
Tollifson goes to church each Sunday. I didn't ask where.--And afterward, still wearing church-appropriate suit and tie, he visits the Ohio Art League where, among frayed jeaned paint spattered artists, he practices drawing and painting from live nude models.
"Yes," he admitted, "So far all of the nude models have been women, and some of the women artists say there should be men models too."--Right on!
In his letter to me Tollifson , in describing himself, wrote " a problem has arisen. Tollifson
has been suffering from an identity crisis. He doesn't quite know whether he identifies more
with Larry Flint, the pornographer and publisher of Hustler magazine, or with Michael Angelo, the 15th century artist whose nude paintings were objected to by officials of the Catholic Church at the time.--Apparently Tollifson's crisis has been resolved by hismaking a choice of identity, for when last seen he was searching for places where he could purchase fig leaves."
YOU TOO can work from live models at the Ohio Art League Sundays 1 to 4 pm. It's not necessary to reserve, but for more information call theOAL at 614-299 8225. Jerry Tollifson's
Fabulous Flowers will be shown at a one man show at Inniswood Park during August, 2008.
The artist is a big tall guy with a lot of cool white hair, and he often wears what is, or is similar to, a white panama suit, like the one the author Tom Wolfe wears.--Perhaps Jerry should pose fully clothed, for a Sunday afternoon modeling session.--Jerry, on a grayday your letter was a breath of fresh air!
ELECTRIC LADIES : Last month I was reborn, renascent as poet Edna St VincentMillay would say, when I visited Electric Lady Land at Mahan Gallery, 717 N.High. (More than once!) Liz Markus lives in New York and her large"Protector " abstracts were to die for!
The peripheral remarks by Colleen Grannen, co director and gallery guide, informed me, beamed me up! Grannen's sense of Now and Then and Popular Culture was, indeed, a breath of fresh air. Kime (Kimmy)Buzzelli, now of L.A.,blew me away with her big neo romantic fashion drawings.--Well, romantic is a non linear state of time and mind). Lithe women,"retro flower women,"Grannen explained. Figures, graceful and lyrical, cutting edge, on big paper. Flowers tendrils,stenciled on walls by Kime Buzzelli herself. The woman is an NFL running back! (New Fashion Life.)--I found Kime's blogg. I wanted to visit Show Pony in L.A.! I wanted to be young and thin, like those lithe sixties women on Kime's big papers. Iraq was blowing up. More Ohioans were losing jobs. But Liz Markus had painted abstracts in honor of such icons asJim Hendryx (sp) and John Lennon,who wore helmets and goggles or dark glasses, and were,as Colleen said, "protectors."-- I want to live in Electric Lady Land, even if only part time!
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