Anna Valdez constructs her autobiography through a visual format like in her 2015 painting, "Studying." This work helps me to think about the ways objects I connect and associate with in my domestic space reveal aspects of my identity.

I want to acknowledge the following websites for providing me with resources for this podcast episode, www.annavaldez.com; New Britain Museum of American Art, www.nbmaa.org and MAAKE Magazine, http://www.maakemagazine.com/anna-valdez

Explore Glen Canyon as American Modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe "felt it" through color, line, and form. You can view the 1965 oil on canvas painting "Canyon Country White and Brown Cliffs" at the New Britain Museum of American Art, "The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art" exhibition until June 2, 2019. www.nbmaa.org www.o'keeffemuseum.org

Experience the beauty and energy of the natural world through the evocative paintings, "Landline" by abstract painter Sean Scully; vertical compositions of horizontal stripes, elements of a landscape stacked one atop of another in pure color!

The works discussed, "Landline See" and "Landline, 1999" are part of an exhibition at The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. Go to thewadsworth.org; image credit @thewadsworth. Links to other references include articles from Irish Times (Aidan Dunne's Artist Sean Scully: ‘It’s about stacking, putting things in order’-9/29/18) and ArtFixDaily (artfixdaily.com), 9/11/18) and author Roger Caitlin 9/20/18 @smithsonian.com)

I give some further thoughts and reflections on my mini-series, "Landscape of the Body," (episodes 39-41), figural representations by three women contemporary artists, Jenny Saville, Yanagi Miwa and Louise Bourgeois in three media.

You can see the images @beyondthepaintpodcast on Instagram or at my website, www.beyondthepaint.net

Explore the austere portrait through a series of black and white photographs in contemporary artist Lorna Simpson's "Bits and Pieces" Explore with me a juxtaposition of image and text that reveals the black experience.

"Bits and Pieces" is part of the collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum, please visit their site at thewadsworth.org and listen to a commentary by Contemporary Art curator Andrea Miller-Keller at tap.thewadsworth.org.

Experience the evocative sculpture "Femme Couteau" by Louise Bourgeois--an interplay between the feminine erotic and the violent. Part 3 of my mini-series on the Landscape of the Body.
In my research I found a wonderful November, 2008 article in ArtForum magazine "Louise Bourgeois," by Sarah K Rich. You can follow her @skrichctpa on Twitter. To learn more about Louise Bourgeois check out the collections at MOMA (moma.org), The Tate Museum (tate.org.uk).

You can see the work @beyondthepaintpodcast on Instagram.

Part 2 of my 3-part mini-series on the Landscape of the Body--experience the figure through the photograph and Miwa Yanagi's compositions of young women envisioning their lives 50 years in the future.

Please visit miwayanagi.net to learn more about Yanagi's work; special thanks for the 2007 exhibition "Global Feminisms," at the Brooklyn Museum that provided me with some of my research. Link to their website: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/global_feminisms/
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Jenny Saville's "Strategy"--exploration of the landscape of the body through the lens of a contemporary painter. This is part 1 of a 3-part mini-series.

Image Credit: thebroad.org (broad museum in los angeles) Please check out their website to learn more about this evocative painting and the body as Saville views it. You can view "Three Graces" by Peter Paul Rubens (highlighted in this episode) at the museodelprado.es

American Modernist Arthur Dove paints grain towers in his hometown of Geneva, New York as he experienced it using simple forms, shapes and color.

You can view the work, housed at Wadsworth Atheneum at thewadsworth.org. Special thanks to the Met Museum and author Robert Atkins; they provided wonderful resources in my research for this episode. Special thanks to Global 365 (www.global365.com) for their support.
You can also see the image @beyondthepaintpodcast on Instagram and at beyondthepaint.net

Discover Andres Serrano investigation from his "Morgue" series--I will focus on the image "Fatal Meningitis II" Visit the artist's website at andresserrano.org and I want to acknowledge Bomb magazine 1993 article and interview with Serrano. It provided me a great resource for this podcast episode. You can also see the image at Beyond the Paint Podcast on Instagram.