Bruce Herman

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Bruce Herman Oct 29, 2010

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Debt to the Dead

I’ve never had the sense that I could claim a sort of exclusive authorship in my work as painter. We are all products of our time, of influences that shape our understandings and our creativity.

Bruce Herman Sep 1, 2010 Making the most of college (fifth annual)

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“Ut pictura poesis”?

There was a prolonged period recently when the words “traditional” and “craftsy” were the kiss of death for an artist’s career. One result is that in the past several decades, artists of every discipline have been trained with the primary expectation that they shall produce new and sometimes shocking objects; choreograph daring dance movements; compose provocative musical pieces or poems—and in many cases, skill has been moved to the margins or completely off-stage. But in recent decades the centrality of novelty and the demand for an art centred primarily on ideas and issues has lessened a bit—a pendulum swing away from experimentalism.

Witness

Bruce Herman May 21, 2010

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Witness

This is one piece from Herman's touring exhibit, Presence/Absence, concerning themes of a sense of place, "geologic time," and the environment and creation care. Several stops on the tour are collaborative with local land trusts and other charitable organizations, to...

Called

Bruce Herman Jan 11, 2008

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Called

From the series Woman, a cycle of paintings about the stages of life for a woman—and a metaphoric evocation of the body/Bride of Christ.