Tuesday, September 6, 2016


Example: Poetry Published in a Literary Journal



silhouette 
of leafless tree
stunning in
fine tracery

pretty shell
dead inside
lacquered by
retreating tide

line of sun
dot of rain
simple
existential plane

corridors
of thought sublime
dimly lit
and full of grime

harmony
in soot and lead
pigeon soaring
overhead


Example: Interview Published in a Marketing Journal





Example: Interview Published in a Professional Journal





Example: Description of Artwork

Michael St.Germain’s intimately-scaled ink drawings are reminiscent of vast ocean spaces, dark psychological entities and menacing atmospheric conditions.
The drawings are the result of an unpremeditated journey in which haste and decisiveness conspire to create an all-or-nothing visual proposition. According to St.Germain, “Ink is rapidly and uncritically daubed, dragged and splashed upon the ivory-white picture plane with a janitor’s mop. The finished drawings are discovered during the process of floating a picture mat over the visual chaos.”
The drawings, literally created with a sweep of an arm, suggest real-world places that are distorted by being rendered with multiple perspectives.

Example: Artist Statement

I employ abstraction to create the illusion of reality. My engagement with materials is mediated by Pareidolia:  “a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.”* My works embody arbitrary rules, accumulation of materiel and musculoskeletal bias.
I value relative experience and unintended aesthetic consequences. I see artistic potential in literary, sensory and aesthetic misinterpretation. My role, as an artist, is to create and promote an opt-in supplemental reality. This real and imagined “aesthetic hybrid “is affected (and actualized) by each viewers’ emotional climate, susceptibility to illusion and ability to exist in the present moment.
*Wikipedia 

Example: Press Release

East Boston, MA- December 6, 2012- Atlantic Works Gallery is pleased to present “cool and distant” a quiet and quirky exhibition of smaller-than-life paintings, drawings and objects by multifaceted artist Michael St.Germain.

“Cool and distant” reveals the unexpected, humorous and poignant visual adventures of an artist more versed in artistic process than emotional self-awareness.

Atlantic Works Gallery is located at 80 Border Street in East Boston, footsteps from the foodie-paradise that is known as Maverick Square. The gallery has dramatic “across the water” views of Charlestown and the Tobin Bridge. 

Take a well-deserved break from your holiday shopping and visit Atlantic Works Gallery. It is a 12-minute drive from Copley Square and is easily accessible by the MBTA Blue Line.

Save these dates! 
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 6, from 7pm-9pm
Third Thursday Reception: Thursday, December 18, from 6pm-9pm
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, December 12-13 and December 19-20, from 2pm-6pm.
Open by Appointment: Monday-Sunday, December 22-28, from 10am-3pm

Contact:
Michael St.Germain
michaelastgermain@gmail.com
Cell. 617-448-4313

Example: Article Published in a Marketing Journal








Example: Art Review
Anna Salmeron's "A Day of Orange"
 
This is a photographic assemblage by Anna Salmeron consisting of digital prints affixed to mat board. The board is scored between the 1st and 2nd and 3rd and 4th columns so that it stands on the table much like a portable altar. This presentation is a fitting tribute to Anna's apparent affection for the color orange in its rich variety of everyday manifestations.

"A Day of Orange" is an orchestration of 16 "trophies" from an artist's self-imposed day long photographic scavenger hunt. Visually, it is composed much in the way that an abstract painting is. Shapes and colors are arranged so that there is an overall sense of visual drama and "balance." The work operates much like an organism in which individual cells can be seen... 

The simultaneous presentation of a variety of subjects suggests a narrative work. Evidently, "A Day of Orange" documents the visual and compositional appetites of an artist under self-imposed parameters (orange in every photo) at specific (yet undefined) times and locations. There is a seductive openness to the variety of images which may urge many a viewer to construct his or her own story... 

After the conceptualization of this work, its completion was swift and straightforward. Digital photos were taken and printed by the artist on her home computer. A selection of same-sized prints was then fit into the compositional skeleton of the Modernist grid. The final arrangement was glued...

I mention this not to detract from the aesthetic value of the work, but to point out the urgency and direct method employed by the artist to reach her goal. "A Day of Orange" has all of the best qualities of a powerful sketch. It is decisive, quickly realized and economical in its enumeration of an idea. It suggests the potential creation of a large scale work but is extremely potent on its own terms...


Example: Text and Image

"The Most Interesting Artist in the World"



































 Couplets


into hollows
of storm’s head
sun-bleached gull
with wings widespread

melancholy 
thud of bell
chained to tarnished
face of swell

with silver crests
and lapis faces
waves march through
cold empty places

wind skips over
aqueous hide
sweeps dark hackles
to the side

empty sky
open sea
monochrome
infinity




Rap Lyrics


"The King of Art"

I’m the King of Art
A slacker inspired
Grad students make my work
I never grow tired
  
I’m the host with the most
The present of the post
I’ll be quaffin’ ennui
'Til I give up my ghost
  
Best believe the hype
I’m an archetype
You’re jealous of my gifts
Which you may never swipe

My fate is to create
And rate as great
So don’t be jealous when
I’m hanging at the Tate

I drink old wine
And eat Ritz crackers
Snag brie cheese
From huge platters

I hang my works
With tackle and boom
People are astonished by
My fluency in gloom

I’m into beanbags and shag
I dress in drag
Once on my Learjet
I puked and missed the bag

I’m the toast of the yacht
With irony I got
Deconstructing discourse
Is the gift that I brought

I’m a connoisseur of kitsch
A post-ironic bitch
I dine with hedge fund managers
They always make me rich

I’m the fakir of myth
A maker of fables
Got impasto as thick
As shit in Augean stables

I Twitter, I chatter
I’m into anti-matter
I make pancakes
And splatter Pollock batter

My mother is MoMA
My Father is Dada
They Met for Moca
But I prefer Coolata

I sculpt with detritus
And piles of raw shit
When Im feeling crafty,
I sit and then I knit

I’m yin, I’m yang
Arch-ambassador of slang
Commemorating NASA
With sculptures made of Tang

I got a cube that's white
Full of northern light
Greater chiaroscuro
Than day and night