Vanessa Daou review archives: Dear John Coltrane JAZZ TIMES

JazzTimes

January/February 2000

Vanessa Daou
Dear John Coltrane
Daou Music

By Josef Woodard

"On previous outings, vocalist Vanessa Daou has danced the rhythm erotica with words from Erica Jong and yin/yang. On the new Dear John Coltrane (Daou Music, OMWCD15, 41:48), Daou and producer/instrumentalist/husband Peter get warm-like-dat with a 10-song meditation on the life, times and (personal) meaning of the Master. From the languid fervor of "Passed" ("While the Freedom Train was reaching critical mass/The Trane just passed.") to "Trane Tripping"'s dreamscape shuffle, as JB said, "Da grooves is there."

Link to review

John Siddique: The artist as alchemist...

‎"The artist as alchemist, breathing soul into clay,
shaping love and beauty, learn them with your hands."

John Siddique, excerpt from 'Lustre' [PDF]

 

Manchester Literature Festival

Suzanne Anker: a code that underlies everything

Suzanne Anker
Rorschach Series, (2004)
rapidprototype sculpture, plaster/resin
5.5" x 5.5" x 2.5" each

Beauty, breath. Suzanne Anker's artwork pulses with a life-force that emanates from within. Symbols, mythology, biology, teleology - all are themes that are intricately woven into the matrix of her work where meaning unfolds, unravels - in the way that thinking does, in the way that feeling does.

In butterfly in the brain, Anker's rapid prototyped Rorschach Series, the black 'splotches' play upon our collective as well as individual psychologies; they are at once familiar and foreign, analytic and spontaneous. Her works intimate that there is a code that underlies everything, yet their fractured, fragile, messages betray their will - or the artist's - to convey meaning. Magnificent, fascinating, terrifyingly and beautifully distancing. The door to understanding is opened, and before us, another door.  

Degrees of Freedom, Gravity & Spontaneous Sculptures @ SVA

Read full lecture workshop here:

VANESSA DAOU | Degrees of Freedom, Gravity & Spontaneous Sculptures @ SVA

Impromptu sculptures made by students of Suzanne Anker's Digital Sculpture class following my lecture/discussion "Degrees of Freedom", an analysis of the language of Dance as it relates to Sculpture: