The Roofless Dog & Pony Show

Jun 10 2021

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The Roofless Dog & Pony Show is a program created by Roofless Painters, an Art School and Gallery for nomads and misfits.

In each episode, we discuss what we are about to paint and why we're going to paint it. We introduce the theme of the painting collection we're getting ready to work on. We talk about the genesis of the concept, its contemporary context, and reflect on the form it may take on our paintings. We also bring up stylistic and historical references as inspiration in the form of painting examples from the past.

Our episodes are from life, messy, and unvarnished, just like our paintings.

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BOUGAINVILLEAS

Jun 10 2021 36 mins

Bougainvillea, by Lucy EddyGarlands of royal Purple:Proud, regal notes of pageantrySounding imperial color:A fanfare of trumpetsTriumphant, barbaric:Bells and chimes and cymbalsClanging crimson.If you'd like to view the paintings we talk about in this episode, watch the video format on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/AnAjrb5eDp0

Ear Rings

May 21 2021 22 mins

Our last portrait challenged us to put extra effort into the ears, a part of the face we usually tend to neglect.During the process, we came across a close-up of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, which reveals the minimal paint Vermeer employed to depict a fully formed alleged pearl. It has two strokes, one of them barely visible, no hardware, and no hook. The skin beneath is no

Anti-portrait

May 13 2021 27 mins

Contemporary artist Virginia Nimarkoh painted Untitled #1 (After Gerhard Richter, Betty, 1988) in 2001. Her painting replicates the famous photorealist portrait by Gerhard Richter, replacing a young African-American woman for Richter's daughter, engaging us to reconsider the determinability of an image and the ways minority representation expands the narrative of a conceptually unm

Paint Tubes

May 07 2021 32 mins

It's hard to visualize the quintessential image of a modern painter as a solo (and sometimes lonely) figure translating nature through their brush without the existence of tubes of paint. Artists have been painting their own art supplies on still lifes since the late 1800s.By using paint tubes as our subject for this collection, we effectively become part of our creation, bringing

Portrait of a Tree

Apr 30 2021 32 mins

Arbor Day—which literally translates to “tree” day from the Latin origin of the word arbor—is a holiday that celebrates the planting, upkeep and preservation of trees. For centuries, communities spanning the globe have found various ways to honor nature and the environment. However, the appreciation of trees and forests in modern times can be largely attributed to Arbor Day

Liquid Gold

Apr 08 2021 35 mins

During the last 16 years, artist Serge Attukwei Clottey has been collecting discarded yellow containers made out of plastic that were once used by people who had no running water. Women were tasked to walk miles to fill up the containers with potable water. Today, the containers are littering the country. Serge is using them as raw material for his plastic tapestries.In addition to

Posing Painters Paintings

Apr 02 2021 37 mins

The ‘Mods’ of late 1950s London loved Italian suits, tidy haircuts, espresso bars, Vespa scooters, and the latest American jazz.The artists of this counterculture also loved to pose in front of their work. Inserting themselves in their creations was a way to reaffirm their newfound identity.Art historian Thomas Crow writes about people posing in a new book titled The Hidden Mod

Still Life with Flowers

Mar 25 2021 39 mins

Spring. Flowers.Still life. Flowers.Mass shootings. Flowers.Last week we celebrated Spring. This week we're mourning the victims of the heinous crimes in Atlanta and Boulder.Makeshift memorials always pop up wherever people's lives are senselessly broken. Strangers lay flowers and gather in silence.Placing flowers by those who left us behind is regarded by anthropologists as one of

Swallows

Mar 19 2021 36 mins

As if by magic, every March 19, hundreds of swallows have been descending to San Juan de Capistrano Mission after traveling all the way from Argentina to nest and spend their summer there. Or at least they used to. Because of urbanization and remodeling in the mission in the 1990s, the colony has set stop somewhere nearby.We’re painting swallows this week because the day also coi

Portraito

Mar 12 2021 47 mins

We're thrilled to learn that the makers of the classic Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head toys will be dropping the binary prefixes and add a few more pieces in each box, so new generations of kids will be able to create more identities beyond the binary genders. Potato Head will now be a little more inclusive.Reading about the toy's history, we learned that the original Mr. Potato consisted