Field Notes | The blurring of art, text + life | Kathy Kelley _Health & Fitness

Open MenuaboutbioCVwritingsresearchresearch ramblingsessays + lyricmundane ramblingsreviews + reflectionsart observationsresponse to textsART 5364art + processportfolioprocessresidenciesVermont Studio Center ResidencyI-Park Artists Residencyproject – one’s own femininityrenovations1929 lubbock cottagehermitage + microforestpedagogyteaching portfoliocourse – art foundationsttu design 1 spring 2016ttu drawing 1 2015WASH 2012-2013WASH 2012WASH 2011 fallWASH 2011 springWASH 2010 fallWASH 2010 springdrawing for graphics 2007intermediate design 2007fundamentals of design 2006courses – interactive2d animation II 2007flash 2004software for graphic design 2004presentation authoring (director) 2003art foundations WASH – SHSU aboutbioCVwritingsresearchresearch ramblingsessays + lyricmundane ramblingsreviews + reflectionsart observationsresponse to textsART 5364art + processportfolioprocessresidenciesVermont Studio Center ResidencyI-Park Artists Residencyproject – one’s own femininityrenovations1929 lubbock cottagehermitage + microforestpedagogyteaching portfoliocourse – art foundationsttu design 1 spring 2016ttu drawing 1 2015WASH 2012-2013WASH 2012WASH 2011 fallWASH 2011 springWASH 2010 fallWASH 2010 springdrawing for graphics 2007intermediate design 2007fundamentals of design 2006courses – interactive2d animation II 2007flash 2004software for graphic design 2004presentation authoring (director) 2003art foundations WASH – SHSU artist + writer + perpetual home renovatormumbling to myself aloud with English butcheries, in public, at times it is embarrassing.The conviction that painting is the right profession grows stronger and stronger in me. Writing is the only other thing I still feel attracted to. -Paul Kleeso many options to delve into artists writings/15 Oct 2020/kathy/0/research ramblingsthere are so many points of entry, all likey to be in play, and so little time creative performance and achievement, and creative cognition processes working memory inhibitory control flexibility… selective attentional focus behavioral measures idea generation (novel and useful) divergent idea selection convergent idea... Read More0 Artists’ predilection for writing: Anne Truitt/13 Oct 2020/kathy/0/artist quotes, Quote…sitting up in bed every morning and writing for as long a time as seemed right. The only limitation I set was to let the artist speak. My hope was that if I did this honestly I would discover how to see myself from a... Read More0 Anouk De Clercq: when artists write/08 Oct 2020/kathy/0/artist quotes, artists’ writingsThere is the room of the author and there is the room of the reader. Somewhere in between those rooms, things happen: an encounter somewhere between the lines, in that in-between space. There is a correspondence between inside and outside, between here and there, between... Read More0 why write: Gary Indiana — clarifying questions, scrambling for survival/04 Sep 2020/kathy/0/artist quotes, artists’ writingswhy write and thoughts on writing? Gary Indiana I didn’t know what I was writing or why I was writing it until I’d worked on it for a couple of years; it was a fumbling process of clarifying certain questions I’d always had in my... Read More0 why write: jenny holzer — be of use, understandable content/04 Sep 2020/kathy/0/artist quotes, researchWhy Write? Jenny Holzer: (image: tate) ‘I wanted to see if I could make anything that would be of use to or have some kind of meaning for a general audience, people on their way to lunch who didn’t care anything about art.’ source: Goodman... Read More0 “I am writing for the same reason I am making art”/04 Nov 2019/kathy/0/artist quotes, artists’ writings, research ramblings, writingsDonald Judd “i write...”1 The moment/03 Oct 2019/kathy/0/personal lyric, writingsThough the scent of wet pine needles is afloat and the falls just out of sight thrum the air with soothing rhythms and the birds morning song catches and rides above the thrum, my mind drifts snagged up inwardly and snarls in the matted roots... Read More0 Being scientist (or artist) is not necessarily an indicator of creativity nor smarts/19 Jul 2019/kathy/0/artist quotes, research, writings“In contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.” — James Watson of Watson and Crick. Bahahahaha!0 James Bridle [why artists write–when we write, we reconfigure the world.]/18 Jul 2019/kathy/0/artist quotes, researchI got a Master’s degree in Computer Science by writing language rather than code – I didn’t submit any code in fact, I was terrible at programming. But I could write about it, I understood it, and I understood that both forms of writing were... Read More0 Xu Bing [why artists write: a case of transference]/17 Jul 2019/kathy/0/artist quotes, researchXu Bing 2006 excerpt from An Artist’s View I began working on Book from the Sky at a time when I was constantly in a very anxious and confused mood. This mood was related to the “cultural fever” that was present at the time in... Read More0 Consequential head scratching/19 Apr 2019/kathy/0/mundane ramblings, writings[Unproofed/ramble warning]. When the cascade of consequences of incessant people watching and headscratching combines with being artist produces a phd, I find this to be an unexpected perk not predicted by early-life performance. The downside of incessant thinking and questioning is a constant stream of... Read More0 Freud cracks me up with his wit:: he also discloses the risks of his practice (disclosure:: affect labeling in terms of identifying stimuli)/16 Apr 2019/kathy/0/Quote, writingsFreud in his introductory lecture series on the psychology of errors and psychoanalysis: “…should I find anyone among you who does not feel satisfied with a cursory acquaintance with psychoanalysis, but who would like to enter into a more enduring relationship with it, I shall... Read More0 Unuseful tab-ulation/14 Apr 2019/kathy/0/writingsYou close the text and see what had already been scratching at the back of your mind–your plethora of tab-ulating has rendered them meaningless. It merely became an act of diddling the pages, a form of self pleasuring. Sigh.0 EW: DISCLOSURE/AFFECTDonald Judd, “Warhol: You have to conclude that things that shit shit, talk shit, and look like shit are shit. Or shit, talk shit, and look like shit are shit or are shit that shit, etc., or are shit that craps, talk shit, and look like shit. Or are craps that shit, talk, crap, and look like shit are shit.”(Pulled from https://hyperallergic.com/356878/the-artist-as-acerbic-critic-donald-judds-writings/ ) Despite doc diss phase, occasionally i get to work in real space./18 Feb 2019/kathy/0/art, processwow (she says with mild sarcasm), i converted three pallets into two of a different shape. may seem a bit boring but breaking a wrecking bar, skill saw, sawzaw, and nail gun felt damn good. contemplated the joys of a table saw, but too many nails. these... Read More0 Henry Moore: Artist’s concerns about the risks of writing/18 Feb 2019/kathy/0/artist quotes, artists’ writings, research, research ramblingsLiabilities associated with writing expressed by sculptor Henry Moore in his own writings (1937). Specifically, he suggests that writing about art and art processes will inherently shift the artist-author social identification from artist to theorist. Of course, despite this concern he sets down in writing,... Read More0 Trait level Intellect: visual artists like scientists display active engagement with ideas, cogitating, analytic thinking styles/18 Feb 2019/kathy/0/artists’ writings, research, writingspresented at SPSP 2/2019 researchgate 0 Renovation documenta 1919/02 Feb 2019/kathy/0/1929 lubbock cottage, home renovationsHome reno0 Correlation between writing, making and academic proclivities/30 Dec 2018/kathy/0/mundane ramblings, writingsthe more I write, the more I make with its inversion true. when either comes to a halt the other withers in the absent wake. reductions in either writing or making has been a red flag that something is off, something needs dealt with that... Read More0 The Creep Theory/30 Dec 2018/kathy/0/artists’ writingsHenry Flynt, artist, musician, philosopher and activist. Below is ‘Creep’ a chapter from his book Blueprint for a Higher Civilization. When Helen __ said I was “such a creep” at Interlochen in 1956, her remark epitomized the feeling that females have always had about me.... Read More1 To write is to organize a relationship. –artist, Marcel BroodthaersSponsored by the letter P/26 Nov 2018/kathy/0/research ramblings, writingsI have a paper in me itching to be written, plus a dataset and suggestive results. The topic, a paper on the problem of experimental and observational creativity studies’ dependence on preadulting populations, pooling all arts, porting personal predictors of viewers’ attitudes and preferences onto... Read More0 Words are events, they do things, change things.They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it.They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.— Ursula K. Le Guin Board double hung wood with trowser rod/07 May 2018/kathy/0/artThere are so many ways to go wrong here that with the gendered ambiguity firing every junior high humor neuron in me simultaneously. There is great enjoyment in being given a parameter outside the scope of my inherent self-cannibalization and my go to repertoire of... Read More0 Binary bunk of bottom up or top down thinking style is shit ~ donald judd/27 Apr 2018/kathy/0/artist quotes“That prose was only emotional recreation and Fried’s thinking is just formal analysis and both methods used exclusively are shit.” — Donald Judd, Complaints: Part 1 Ha. Of course he was just excoriating art critics’ writing and their capacity for analysis. And I would say... Read More0 Visual artists: Why write? Right?/22 Apr 2018/kathy/0/writingsJust thinking. Why might high creative achievers, artist, be compelled to write? High need for cognition Order the mind (cog complexity, lexical chaos reduction or reordering; facilitate cog switching control) Counter/buffer social evaluatory threat as a function of domain specific bending and breaching conventions consolidate,... Read More0 Anxiety and insight correlation not all that surprising/07 Mar 2018/kathy/0/research, writingsConsider the mental itch, that low level of anxious arousal that drives the impulse for problem solving. Or perhaps, ponder the relationship of the insightful fellowiana, her breaches of conventions in pursuit of alternate understanding with inherent risks of unbelonging and perceived competency fails, with... Read More1 A frank claim based on direct experience and bolstered by studies that theoretically support the claim/27 Feb 2018/kathy/0/research ramblings, writingsI believe artists, high in real-world creative achievement, have a tendency to implicitly engage writing strategies that facilitate toggling up and down various internal cognitive, affective, and psychopathological risky conditions that contribute to various phases of creative processes, persistence, and provide some backbone for breaching social... Read More0 Back to sewing the carcass-like pudenda/09 Feb 2018/kathy/0/art, processthe School of Art experimental space, 3D annex.0 123…72Next ›Artists’ predilection for writing: Anne TruittAnouk De Clercq: when artists writewhy write: jenny holzer — be of use, understandable content“I am writing for the same reason I am making art”The momentrecent postsPaul Klee: Art and writingFebruary 25, 2021so many options to delve into artists writingsOctober 15, 2020Artists’ predilection for writing: Anne TruittOctober 13, 2020Anouk De Clercq: when artists writeOctober 8, 2020why write: Gary Indiana — clarifying questions, scrambling for survivalSeptember 4, 2020why write: jenny holzer — be of use, understandable contentSeptember 4, 2020“I am writing for the same reason I am making art”November 4, 2019The momentOctober 3, 2019archives +2021 (1) +February (1) +2020 (5) +October (3) +September (2) +2019 (13) +November (1) +October (1) +July (3) +April (4) +February (4) +2018 (14) +December (3) +November (1) +June (1) +May (1) +April (2) +March (1) +February (4) +January (1) +2017 (16) +December (2) +November (1) +October (3) +August (1) +June (8) +April (1) +2016 (26) +November (1) +October (3) +August (1) +June (2) +May (4) +April (5) +March (5) +January (5) +2015 (80) +December (17) +November (12) +October (12) +September (7) +July (3) +June (5) +May (16) +April (2) +March (2) +February (1) +January (3) +2014 (44) +December (1) +November (6) +October (7) +September (6) +July (1) +June (3) +May (2) +April (1) +March (8) +January (9) +2013 (133) +December (5) +November (9) +October (9) +September (11) +August (7) +July (17) +June (29) +May (8) +April (10) +March (9) +February (5) +January (14) +2012 (512) +December (17) +November (28) +October (38) +September (43) +August (59) +July (74) +June (68) +May (28) +April (38) +March (45) +February (39) +January (35) +2011 (389) +December (35) +November (46) +October (24) +September (28) +August (39) +July (19) +June (27) +May (19) +April (31) +March (40) +February (61) +January (20) +2010 (517) +December (23) +November (40) +October (47) +September (31) +August (36) +July (27) +June (144) +May (66) +April (18) +March (27) +February (29) +January (29) +2009 (301) +December (29) +November (26) +October (38) +September (60) +August (50) +July (12) +June (46) +May (15) +April (2) +March (1) +February (10) +January (12) +2008 (65) +December (3) +November (13) +October (7) +September (3) +August (2) +July (8) +June (4) +May (9) +April (4) +March (2) +February (5) +January (5) +2007 (26) +December (1) +November (5) +October (3) +August (1) +May (2) +April (1) +March (3) +February (8) +January (2) +2006 (26) +December (4) +November (3) +July (19) For KathyLog inEntries feedComments feedWordPress.orgTagsmundane ramblings . hermitage . art . process . artist residency . teaching . WASH foundations . art foundations . SHSU Art . VSC . June 2013 . i-park . microforest . road trip . family . exhibition . academic textabation . ART 5364 . Quote . art review . artists writings . Lecture . research . Dopt (the dog) . garden . Judith Butler . darke gallery . poetry . research ramblings . fall 2012 . poems which aren't really poems just thinkings . Life Style . r2 . artist writings . 2D Project 2 . 3D project 2 . 2012 fall p1 . 3D . r3 . BOX 13 ArtSpaceKathy KelleyKathy Kelley is working toward her Fine Art: Critical Studies and Artist Practices PhD at Texas Tech University and is a practicing artist. She is involved with interdisciplinary research exploring the possible functions of the writing practices of visual artists who are prolific in art production, recognized in the art world, and sustain their art making practice through the ends of their working careers. Academically she is a recipient of the TTU Presidential Doctoral Scholarship, Helen DeVitt Jones Art Talent VPA Fellowship and CH Foundation Graduate Fellowship. . . . Kelley’s research interests arose from her own art practice, involvement in the professional Houston art community, and her instrumental role in developing and implementing a contemporary art foundation program, WASH [Workshop in Art Studio + History], at Sam Houston State University. She has been selected and participated in several Integrative Teaching International ThinkTanks on contemporary pedagogical practices in collegiate art foundations. Kelley is the founding president of BOX 13 ArtSpace, a non-profit exhibition and studio space in Houston, Texas. Her solo exhibition record includes Women and Their Work (Austin), Lawndale Art Center (Houston), Houston Art League and other venues. Kelley has also received grants from Houston Arts Alliance and Buffalo Bayou Art Park, as well as full fellowship artist residency programs at I-Park (Connecticut), Vermont Studio Centers (Vermont) and Darke Gallery (Houston). SocialFollow me on:Privacy PolicyView privacy policy here© Copyright 2015, Kathryn (Kathy) Stirling KelleyPowered By Wordpress. Theme by GoodLayers