Insights Video Description
Please read below for text and image information that appear in the Insights video, accompanying an audio interview with artist Charles Blackwell. Recorded by Robynn Takayama* at Insights 2008 Artist Day, Blackwell talks about his process as a visually impaired artist and the Insights Art Exhibition.
This video also features images of artwork by other blind or visually impaired Insights artists, and viewers interacting with their art.
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* Robynn Takayama's interview with Charles Blackwell was part of the
Deep Roots podcast produced by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Text:
Insights Art Exhibition
Works by artists who are blind or visually impaired
Presented by the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery at City Hall
Visit the 20th Insights Art Exhibition at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery at City Hall
On view October 5 through December 11, 2009
Public Reception October 15, 2009
For more information visit www.lighthouse-sf.org.
Image list:
- Carmelo Gannello, linocut, “Achiever”, 1992
- Artist Charles Blackwell in front of one of his paintings at Insights 2008
- Charles Blackwell, ink drawing “Mellow Jazz Connecting Yellow Drum”, 2008
- Michael Jameson, solar etching, “Bob Dylan”, 2007
- Kurt Weston, color photograph, Night Flight, 2008,
- Tamar Solomon, “Penguin in the Park”, acrylic on canvas, 2006
- Insights viewer touching sculpture at Insights 2008
- Charles Blackwell, acrylic painting, “Big Drum Swing On and On”, 2007
- Charles Blackwell, ink drawing, “Abstract Bassist”, 2009
- Charles Blackwell, ink drawing, “Zoom Into Inspiration Drum”, 2009
- Passle Helminski, hanging fiber sculpture, “Beta Blue”, 2007
- Bobbie Gray, watercolor collage, “Birds of a Feather”, 2009
- Bobbie Gray, watercolor, “Wildflowers”, 2004
- Tamar Solomon, “The Great Fall”, 2006
- Charlie Grover, color photograph, “UFO’s”, 2007
- Insights viewer reading braille signage while listening to audio tour
- Amy Monthei, painting with raised braille, “Beloved - grade 2 braille”, 2006
- Lois Ann Barnett, color pencil drawing, “Colorado”, 2004
- John Ednoff, mixed media painting, “Blue Nile Queen”, 2002
- Dmitry Yanushkevich, digital media, “Reconciliation”, 2000
- Bruce Hall, color photograph, “Frenetic”, 2009
- Bruce Hall, color photograph, “Kelp Symmetry”, 2006
- Genesse McGaugh, clay sculpture, “Jewel Eboné”, 2007
- Ida Berkowitz, acrylic painting, “Vineyards of Tuscany”, 2005
- Susan Joy Gustafson, watercolor, “Archangel of Arches”, 2007
- Laura Landry, color photograph, “Around Town”, 2006
- Insights viewers with white canes viewing artwork at San Francisco City Hall
- Insights viewer touching Virginia Knepper Doyle’s hanging canvases, “Family Stories”, 2008
- Viewer with white cane listening to audio tour on cell phone
- John Theiss, bronze sculpture, “Peer Support” 2007
- Artist Dominique Moody talking next to her pieces “Eye Speak” and “My-Opic Vision”, 2005
- Dominique Moody describing her sculpture to a viewer
- Viewer looking through magnifiers in Dominique Moody’s “My-Opic Vision”
- Dominique Moody “My-Opic Vision”, 2005
- Viewer with white cane touching tactile sculpture (“Balanced”, by Richard Mickley) while listening to audio tour, 2008
- Artist Mari Cardenas speaking next to her painting, “Leaving”
- “Leaving” oil painting by Mari Cardenas, 2006
- Artist Charles Blackwell teaches painting to LightHouse art class
- Artist Sujit Bhattacharjee tearing paper by hand to make his animal shapes
- Artist Sujit Bhattacharjee hand torn paper figure “Elephants two by two”, 2006
- Artist Sujit Bhattacharjee in front of his hand torn paper figure “Grizzly Fight”, 2006
- Velma Stiers, acrylic painting, “The Road With No End”, 2005
- Michael Richard, black and white photograph, “Strata Various”, 2004
- Felicia Griffin, monoprint, “Untitled”, 2008
- Viewer looking at Felicia Griffin’s “Untitled”
- Pete Eckert, black and white photograph, “Cathedral”, 2003
- Kurt Weston, black and white photograph, “Cataract View”, 2007
- Viewers touching Virginia Knepper Doyle’s tactile paintings “Family Stories”, 2008
- Voters in San Francisco City Hall lined up in exhibition halls, 2008
- LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired building on Van Ness Avenue
