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John Seed

John Seed is a professor of art and art history at Mt. San Jacinto College in Southern California. Seed has written about art and artists for Arts of Asia, Art Ltd., Catamaran, Harvard Magazine, International Artist, The HuffingtonPost and Poets and Artists. An archive of his writings can be found at www.johnseed.com

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The Unexpected Detours of Marshall Brown’s Architectural Collages

by John Seed October 10, 2022October 10, 2022

By disrupting the reality of his images Brown’s collages lead to surprises.

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Alyssa Monks Captures the Energy and Anxiety of Being in Paint

by John Seed September 21, 2022September 21, 2022

With the numerous self-portraits Monks has painted throughout her career she offers her “self” to the viewers while also generating a sense of dissolution.

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Unearthing a Treasure Trove of Bay Area Women Abstract Painters

by John Seed September 1, 2022September 2, 2022

The Long View amply demonstrates that Jay DeFeo and Joan Brown may be the best known Bay Area women artists who worked in abstraction, but they were far from alone.

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The Artist Who Painted the Struggles We Face

by John Seed August 15, 2022August 15, 2022

Francis De Erdely had an intuitive grasp of the inner worlds of people who were coping with a sense of displacement in their daily lives, which he conveyed in his art.

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Two Santa Monica Artists Create a Legacy Through Potlucks

by John Seed August 7, 2022August 9, 2022

An extraordinary variety of artists came to Jon Swihart and Kim Merrill’s backyard potlucks, discussing not just their work, but also the events and challenges of their lives.

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The Love and Art of Irene and Peter Stern 

by John Seed May 17, 2022June 24, 2022

The artist couple shared creativity and mutual devotion reflecting a period of light and joy that came after considerable darkness in their early lives.

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Photographs as Passageways to the Profound

by John Seed March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

Rich in sensations and ideas, Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling uses unexpected juxtapositions of text and image to offer both antidotes to the mundane and passageways to the profound.

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Remembering the Legacy of a Larger-Than-Life Artist, Sam Tchakalian

by John Seed January 25, 2022January 25, 2022

The Bay Area artist believed in shaping artists rather than relaying rules.

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How Joan and Jack Quinn Built a Major Art Collection Based on Friendship

by John Seed December 27, 2021December 27, 2021

Seeing On the Edge purely in art historical terms misses what the Quinn family and their guests have been appreciating for years, that their collection is really about friendship and encouragement.

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Where the Billionaire Buyers Are

by John Seed July 31, 2019July 31, 2019

In BOOM: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art, Michael Shnayerson paints a vivid portrait of the dizzying ascent of the contemporary art market and the powerful succession of dealers responsible for its rise.

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Delving Into the Story of a Black Woman Waiting for a Bus in Postwar Los Angeles

by John Seed April 12, 2019April 17, 2019

Like the canvas itself, which has been hidden away for years in a private collection, the painted woman in Elsie Palmer Payne’s “Bus Stop” is ready to be studied and re-evaluated.

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A Critical Piece of Advice Robert De Niro, Sr. Gave Me About Art

by John Seed June 18, 2018

Robert De Niro senior’s sage advice, which he gave me in the late 1970s, has stayed with me, although I remember finding it intensely challenging when first offered.

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