In November 2015, I presented a paper about Max Ginsburg at the TRAC 2015 Conference. My paper is soon to be published by TRAC2015 and California Lutheran University, in a selection of papers from the proceedings. Michael Pearce, fine artist and professor at CLU, is editor. Thank you to Michael Lynn-Adams and Michael Pearce for creating the TRAC conferences, where contemporary realist and surrealist artists, curators, philosophers met to shine a light on thought and practice in a dangerous new century.
I will look forward to sharing further news on this and my next writing project, an article about the artists who painted portraits for the families of the Emanuel Nine, presented in Charleston at the Principle Gallery.
My husband David Rasberry and I are also working on a documentary about Max Ginsburg's art practice and its focus on social justice and realism.
We will soon be interviewing Dr. Semir Zeki about his research on how the brain perceives Beauty and the Sublime, as well as ugliness and hatred, for our documentary about Max Ginsburg. I am especially interested in asking him how the brain reads content in art, is there a correlation between how emotions are affected and narrative. And whether that narrative has to be expertly expressed to best effect on the emotions, or not. Given the current year, I am looking also at the power, or lack of power, of art in propaganda, whether digital excess has reduced the brain's capacity to dwell on a subject.
Please stay posted!
