[accessibleimage] 2 artists and car ralley
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- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:54:31 +0100
Hi,
Two articles about 2 artists and links two articles about a car ralley.
David Tineo gives also an audio talk about his works. Links from page of
article
Best,
Lisa
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http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060119/ENT/601190315/1006
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/112438
Artist makes his mark despite attack?s effects
By Dave Lavender
The Herald-Dispatch
January 19, 2006
HUNTINGTON -- Surrounded by stacks of colored Sharpie markers, Mike
Fiffe looks up from his latest art work.
"From now on, I'm signing my name Dotman," Fiffe says as a grin first
sneaks across his face before he bursts into a full roll of laughter.
The artist now known as Dotman has his first art show called "Miracles
Happen" now hanging at Java Joint, a coffeehouse, restaurant and bar at
1555 3rd Ave., through the end of January.
The show, which features 15 8X10 pieces and two poster size pieces,
couldn't have a better title.
In November 2001, Fiffe was beaten severely by three men outside of a
nightclub.
Although the beating resulted in a severe brain injury that has put
Fiffe in a wheelchair and has made it difficult to speak, it couldn't
steal his rebel artist spirit.
Legally blind and able to use only one hand, Fiffe first turned to
poetry, which came streaming out after he started the slow road of recovery.
"Poetry -- it's too easy," Fiffe said while sitting at his art table.
Ken Epperly, Fiffe's legal guardian, said Fiffe wrote more than 5,000
poems, stacks and stacks in manila folders.
Epperly said one day Fiffe wanted to start drawing again.
Before the incident, Fiffe said he drew typical teenager stuff, dark
inked-up tattoo-like art filled with skulls and such.
Spurred on by a stream of music that ranges from heavy metal to
Christian to classical, Fiffe now produces more abstract art that's
sometimes black and white and sometimes colorful art pieces filled with
geometric objects, dots and patterns.
Fiffe draws for most of the day on work days in the break room at Magic
Makers Costumes, the national costume supply house owned by Epperly and
Ken Fox.
"I'll find a pattern and one little mark and just go," Fiffe said.
He may work for two or three hours on a piece, and if he doesn't like it
-- there's the trash can.
"I'll pitch it and start again if I see one of those little mistakes,"
Fiffe said.
As his zest was reawakened for his art, Epperly said he thought about
asking Fiffe's longtime friends Jason Arthur and Amber Clifford (the
owners of Java Joint) if they would hang one of the more than 200 pieces
of art works he has created.
Jason and Amber did one better. They made him the artist of the month
for January at Java Joint.
Fiffe said the exhibit has already brought a lot of joy. One of the art
works has already sold, and he's already had strangers come up at the
coffeehouse and compliment his work.
"Eventually, I would like to do some painting," Fiffe said. "With my
vision, I know it will be hard to be neater."
That said, he wants you to know those framed dripping words of "Miracles
Happen" is supposed to look that way.
"I wanted it to be like spray art or graffiti. It's a drip -- not like
me," Fiffe said, smiling.
artcile 2
Published: 01.22.2006
As the light fades
His murals illustrating struggle hang all over town. Now, Tucson's David
Tineo faces the struggle of his life.
By Tom Beal
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tineo on view at 2 galleries
Two exhibitions of David Tineo's art open this week.
Galeria La Sirena
- 2905 E. Broadway
- Friday through Feb. 17
- Opening reception with the artist: Friday, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
- Regular hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed 2-3
p.m. for lunch); Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- The gallery has donated the Tineo pieces in its collection "to benefit
David in his fight against massive vision loss." Other works by Tineo
will also be exhibited.
Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop
- 222 E. Sixth Street
- Saturday through Feb. 25
- Opening reception with Tineo and other gallery artists: Saturday, 7 to
10 p.m.
- Regular hours: Friday and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m.
- A special collection of Tineo's work will be shown in conjunction with
the exhibition "Tesoros" (Treasures), celebrating gems, minerals and
other treasures with work by members of the cooperative gallery and
invited guest artists.
On StarNet
Post your thoughts on David's life, his work and his impact or ask
questions of David on the Starnet bulletin boards.
This forum will also feature additional comments by reporter Tom Beal,
photographer A.E. Araiza and Starnet online producer Jorge Ribas.
Click here to post
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but
what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
Pablo Picasso
David Tineo paints best in early morning. Midday, there is too much
light for eyes that see so little.
Tineo, Tucson's most prolific muralist, has achieved a measure of fame,
but riches were never in the equation. To keep painting, he cut corners,
scrounged materials, stretched his dollars and his own canvases,
slathered craft paint on cheap surfaces.
He says the process is the important part, a point he made dramatically
when he filled the walls and ceiling of Raices Taller art gallery with
his images, then painted the walls white again. The art is still there,
he says. You don't have to see it.
You don't have to see.
This is what David Tineo tells himself today.
That philosophical attitude could change as his world darkens. In the
meantime, Tineo, 50, is struggling to keep his vision clear as his eyes
cloud over.
His style is evolving. He has never fully challenged himself as an
artist, he says, and maybe these limits will help him create something
new, different, better.
He is legally blind now and his doctors don't know what is causing his
macular degeneration, damage to the rods and cones on the back walls of
his eyes.
These things are usually genetic and Tineo has inexact knowledge of
medical history on his father's side. His father deserted the family
when David was 11, leaving his mother, who spoke only Spanish and hadn't
yet attained citizenship, to raise seven children.
His upbringing prepared him for an artist's life, he said. "You have a
place to live; the bills are paid; you have transportation ? you're all
right."
Free to create
Above the painted door of his studio ? a mural-covered shed behind his
mother's house west of Downtown ? is the slogan "Nomás Dios y el Artista."
"Only God and the artist" share the moment of creation, and Tineo has
shared it again and again, inside restaurants and outside public
buildings, on walls and ceilings and thousands of canvases.
After three decades, some of his public work has been covered over or
demolished.
The intentional obliteration of one of Tineo's murals brought artist
Maurice Grossman to the verge of tears. Tineo filled the walls and
ceiling of Raices Taller gallery with painted stories of 40 people in
September 2000, only to whitewash them when the exhibit ended.
"It was like painting over the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and saying,
'Oh, well, it's here for a month just for the pope's birthday,' " said
Grossman.
Some of Tineo's temporary work has endured.
The monumental mural on the north wall of the Tucson Museum of Art,
painted by Tineo and Antonio Pazos in 1992 to celebrate an exhibit of
Chicano art, was slated to hang for three months. It remains, faded but
still dramatic, 13 years later.
Glare and frustration
At Kino Hospital, where his murals cover three walls of the cafeteria
courtyard, the light is too bright when we visit them. Tineo can't read
the inscription he left in the corner. "Basically, it says, 'Art heals.' "
"It is frustration when I look at it and I cannot enjoy what you're
seeing now. I only see glares of bright light. I cannot handle the
difference in contrast of light and dark right now, but I do know it's
being enjoyed. It's being appreciated."
Whatever the cause of Tineo's vision loss, it is not a condition that is
reversible without advances in medical science, said Dr. Richard Ober,
chief of ophthalmology for the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System. He
re-examined Tineo, an Army veteran, on Wednesday.
The left eye is better than the right. they test at 20/200 and 20/400,
respectively. The cones, which control "straight-ahead vision," seem the
most affected. The hope is that his eyesight will stabilize, leaving
Tineo with the limited, mostly peripheral vision he has now.
There's no need to create metaphoric ironies for the story of David
Tineo. A visual artist is losing his sight. It is a very private
struggle that has already sent him to the hospital once during a
stress-induced episode that mimicked a heart attack.
The public artist
It is also a public event because Tineo may be the best known artist in
Tucson. He has agreed to let us follow him this year and tell in words
what he has already painted.
Tineo has spent his life documenting Latino struggles, successes and
cultural accomplishments while living the life he documented.
There are Tucson artists with more fame in art circles, but none whose
work would be so recognizable, especially to the children who have
painted along with him.
Those brush strokes on the murals at UPH/Kino Hospital and in schools
across Southern Arizona and as far away as Colorado come from an army of
kids in art education programs.
You have seen his work while dining at El Charro or El Parador, while
walking across the University of Arizona campus, attending an event at
the Tucson Convention Center, touring the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum,
visiting your children's schools or catching a flight at the airport.
Tineo was restoring his earliest works, the murals at El Rio
Neighborhood Center, when his deteriorating vision stopped him. The
murals he began painting there in 1974 are a melange of symbols that
celebrate his heritage and scenes that specifically depict the struggles
of his neighbors, his people ? "La Raza" ? to build a neighborhood
center and carve out a park from the city golf course.
Salomón Baldenegro, who helped lead demonstrations at El Rio and was
among those jailed for occupying the golf course in 1969, said Tineo's
murals are as important as the political struggle.
"They convey history and pride," said Baldenegro, who teaches about the
Chicano mural movement in his class at the University of Arizona.
"That's why they're such assets to our community."
As Tineo restored his El Rio murals last spring, he fought a bright,
sometimes painful light at the center of his vision and found himself
losing balance atop the scaffold. He had to abandon the job and give up
teaching at Pima Community College.
He continues to paint, and is painting more than ever.
"I think it's because he feels he's running out of time," said his
21-year-old daughter, Adreana Wickberg.
The artist at work
Tineo builds canvases by memory and instinct, using the space between an
old desk and an equipment locker to measure the boards for sawing,
keeping his fingers just outside the arc of his hammer as he listens for
the sound that tells him whether he has bent the nail or driven it true.
He paints in early morning, with soft light coming through the high
windows on the south and an open door to the north, augmented by a
single bulb in a shadeless lamp.
His plastic bottles and tubes of acrylic paint are laid out where he can
grab them without looking. His palette is a styrofoam meat tray, his
paints and brushes bought at Wal-Mart or, occasionally, on sale at an
art supply store.
He works rapidly, the canvas already outlined with a woman's form in
four different movements. "This paint fights me. There's very little
elasticity in these cheap paints," he says.
"This is called 'Jade Mask.' It's a representational-movement kind of
thing; I'm not really concerned here about style. I like to work and
kind of feel the body parts and the movement while I paint.
"I see colors but my blue fields are off a little bit sometimes. I lose
more time trying to find my colors than I do painting."
The model represented four times in this canvas was the subject of
several portraits. "I had to get this close" ? he holds his palm about a
foot from his face ? "to see her features."
The gesturing forms take shape as he quickly dips his brushes in a
series of blues, greens, reds, wiping them on his jeans. He takes a
brush dipped in black and stabs at the faces in quick motions and they
take on different moods.
"It's the states of emotion ... this is contemplation ... this is deep
thought .... this is, 'Eh, I don't really care about him anymore,' and
this one, 'Ah, he's finally gonna make some money.' "
He's talking about himself. He has never made much money on public art
projects. He has worked as a counselor, as resident artist at schools
and as an art instructor at Pima College, but mostly he just painted.
It was hard on his wives and his two children, he says, but he had to do
it. "Since age 3, the only thing I wanted to do was paint."
He signs his last name in black in the upper right corner: "Tineo ? the
five letters my father gave me."
the five letters
my father gave me
Follow David Tineo's fight to maintain his vision as his sight fades in
this occasional series of articles throughout the coming year.
On StarNet: Post your thoughts on David's life, his work and his impact
at forums.azstarnet.com/
and view an audio slideshow of his work at www.azstarnet. com/slideshows/
Tineo on view at 2 galleries
? Two exhibitions of David Tineo's art open this week.
Galeria La Sirena
- 2905 E. Broadway
- Friday through Feb. 17
- Opening reception with the artist: Friday, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
- Regular hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed 2-3
p.m. for lunch); Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- The gallery has donated the Tineo pieces in its collection "to benefit
David in his fight against massive vision loss." Other works by Tineo
will also be exhibited.
Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop
- 222 E. Sixth Street
- Saturday through Feb. 25
- Opening reception with Tineo and other gallery artists: Saturday, 7 to
10 p.m.
- Regular hours: Friday and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m.
- A special collection of Tineo's work will be shown in conjunction with
the exhibition "Tesoros" (Treasures), celebrating gems, minerals and
other treasures with work by members of the cooperative gallery and
invited guest artists.
On StarNet
Post your thoughts on David's life, his work and his impact or ask
questions of David on the Starnet bulletin boards.
This forum will also feature additional comments by reporter Tom Beal,
photographer A.E. Araiza and Starnet online producer Jorge Ribas.
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but
what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
Pablo Picasso
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