I've just ordered this!
This review is from: Green Guide for Artists: Nontoxic Recipes, Green Art Ideas, & Resources for the Eco-Conscious Artist (Paperback)
Karen Michel's Green Guide for Artists is an absolute must-have on every artist's shelf. It's an engaging, in-depth compendium of information, safety tips and guidelines, and recipes for creating less hazardous and toxic paints and mediums than are widely available commercially. And what's super cool about that is it harks back to times when artists created and concocted their own paints and mediums as a matter of course, artists like Rembrandt and Michelangelo.
The Resources and Recycling pages are phenomenal, there are five chapters on incorporating recycling and upcycling techniques into your everyday technique toolkits for bookmaking and more. The incredible "botanical alchemist" India Flint and the "collage graffiti" minimalist Cat Collier are just two of an illustrious group of dedicated and daring mixed-media pioneers who contributed to the gallery.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Artist Gregory Coats exhibiting in New York 5/1 - 5/16, "A Benefit Gathering of the Tribes"
Exhibition title: A Starter Kit for Collectors: Art Exhibition and Sale
A Benefit for A Gathering of the Tribes
Exhibition dates: Saturday, May 1st - Sunday through May 16th, 2010 Exhibition preview: Saturday May 1st, 2pm-6pm Artist reception: Saturday May 1st, 7pm-10pm Event location: Tribes Gallery 285 East 3rd Street,New York,N.Y.
Benefit organizer/curator: Thom Corn, 212.529.4667, 917.553.7639
Participating Visual Artists:
Torrick "TOXIC" Ablack, Charlie Ahearn, John Ahearn, Tomie Arai, Willie Birch, Carol Blank, Andrew Castrucci, Fay Chiang, Gregory Coates, Esperanza Cortes, Thom Corn, Clockwork Cros, Jody Culkin, Peggy Cyphers,Jane Dickson, Norman Douglas, John Drury, Harry Druzd, Stefan Eins, Dan Enger, Matthew Enger, Mark Enger, Brigitte Engler, John Farris, Gerald Feldman,Janina Fisher, Pam Goldman, "DOZE" Green, Gerald Jackson,Nikki Johnson, Steven Lack, Juanita Lanzo, Joe Lewis, Karin Luner, Johnny "CRASH" Matos, Jayson Mena, Renny Molenaar, Cyril Mazard, Greg Nanney, Joseph Nechvatal, Jondra Nolan, Tom Otterness, Calvin Reid, Huston Ripley, Rick Rodine, James Romberger, Randee Silv, Kiki Smith,John T. Spencer GaryTaxali, Robert Tanzie Thornton, Toyo Tsuchiya, Marguerite Van Cook, John Veit, Tom Warren, Christopher Wynter.
Gregory Coates work is available at http://www.artrentandlease.com/ - sustainable, eco-friendly works for sale, rent and lease.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Economic Stimulus Package extended for Furniture & Decor
Companies can depreciate furniture, fixtures and equipment at a substantially higher rate, and take valuable tax deductions if put into place in 2010.
While artwork cannot be depreciated, it can be expensed under a properly structured rental provided by Art Rent and Lease. Visit our webpage for more information: http://www.artrentandlease.com/ or contact us for details at (888) 440-9260. We rent art, lease art and sell art to facility and building managers, art for sets and photo shoots, staging, companies who need to fill empty walls and those looking to enhance their image!
Lisa Powell, x710
While artwork cannot be depreciated, it can be expensed under a properly structured rental provided by Art Rent and Lease. Visit our webpage for more information: http://www.artrentandlease.com/ or contact us for details at (888) 440-9260. We rent art, lease art and sell art to facility and building managers, art for sets and photo shoots, staging, companies who need to fill empty walls and those looking to enhance their image!
Lisa Powell, x710
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Tax-Deducitble Artwork for Business
Since 2000, Art Rent and Lease has structured tax-deducitble art rentals for corporate, healthcare and hospitality clients throughout the US. Our consultants work with building and facility managers, designers and architects to bring the beauty of fine art into the workspace, utilizing sustainable artwork from our gallery of emerging and established artists.
An art rental may be the only true method for a business to take a deduction on artwork, providing the rental is structured to meet IRS guidelines. Under a true rental, a business entity may expense the rental payment for artwork located at their place of business, just as they would when renting furniture, fixtures or equipment.
Artwork (and antique musical instruments) do not have a "determinable useful life" for depreciation purposes as defined by the IRS, and cannot be depreciated or expensed. It makes no difference if artwork is acquired by purchase or a lease: leases typically have a fixed purchase option of $1 or 10%, making the lease a conditional sales contract (or capital lease) in the eyes of the IRS, and therefore not a qualifying structure.
An excerpt taken from "The CPA Journal" regarding Federal Taxation:
Revenue Ruling 68-232 (1968-1 C.B. 79) states that a valuable and treasured art piece does not have a determinable useful life. The ruling also distinguishes between the condition of the artwork and its life. While the actual physical condition of the artwork may influence the market value placed on it, its condition will not ordinarily limit or determine the artifact's useful life. Accordingly, works of art may not be depreciated. While a precise definition of "works of art" does not exist in the code, such assets usually fall into a category of assets that have no determinable useful life and do not predictably decline in value.
If your company is considering artwork for a new location, a renovation or to replace outdated works, please contact us about structuring a rental that will allow you to not only enjoy the artwork, but also take advantage of tax advantages.
Visit us at: http://www.artrentandlease.com/ or call (888) 440-9260 x710 for more information.
Our attorney's advise us to inform you to consult with your tax professional prior to any fine art acquisition. This information is not meant to provide legal or tax advise and we cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions.
An art rental may be the only true method for a business to take a deduction on artwork, providing the rental is structured to meet IRS guidelines. Under a true rental, a business entity may expense the rental payment for artwork located at their place of business, just as they would when renting furniture, fixtures or equipment.
Artwork (and antique musical instruments) do not have a "determinable useful life" for depreciation purposes as defined by the IRS, and cannot be depreciated or expensed. It makes no difference if artwork is acquired by purchase or a lease: leases typically have a fixed purchase option of $1 or 10%, making the lease a conditional sales contract (or capital lease) in the eyes of the IRS, and therefore not a qualifying structure.
An excerpt taken from "The CPA Journal" regarding Federal Taxation:
Revenue Ruling 68-232 (1968-1 C.B. 79) states that a valuable and treasured art piece does not have a determinable useful life. The ruling also distinguishes between the condition of the artwork and its life. While the actual physical condition of the artwork may influence the market value placed on it, its condition will not ordinarily limit or determine the artifact's useful life. Accordingly, works of art may not be depreciated. While a precise definition of "works of art" does not exist in the code, such assets usually fall into a category of assets that have no determinable useful life and do not predictably decline in value.
If your company is considering artwork for a new location, a renovation or to replace outdated works, please contact us about structuring a rental that will allow you to not only enjoy the artwork, but also take advantage of tax advantages.
Visit us at: http://www.artrentandlease.com/ or call (888) 440-9260 x710 for more information.
Our attorney's advise us to inform you to consult with your tax professional prior to any fine art acquisition. This information is not meant to provide legal or tax advise and we cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Wealth Matters - Protect Your Art With More Than a Handshake - NYTimes.com
An excellent article from the New York Times!
When we place artwork at a client location on rent or lease, we file a UCC-1 financing statement to protect the artists work.
To learn more about UCC-1 financing statements, visit: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_UCC-1_agreement
When we place artwork at a client location on rent or lease, we file a UCC-1 financing statement to protect the artists work.
To learn more about UCC-1 financing statements, visit: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_UCC-1_agreement
Friday, March 26, 2010
Pamela Lawton’s Liquid City
From "The Statement," a monthly e-zine for the professional designer:
Great art shows us beauty that is often overlooked. It teaches us to see our everyday world with new eyes. Pamela Lawton has done just that, showing us a view of the city we may not have noticed; the endless reflections of one glass building onto another. “Liquid City”, a series of paintings that captures this phenomenon, is fluid, undulating, colorful and alive. The work is both emotional and musical, as the colors seem to waver with emotion. “Most tourists experience the city from the street level. They're interested in street events," says Lawton. "Instead, I'm looking high up at a beautiful skyscraper that's kind of timeless because it's capturing light, it's capturing rhythms and nature.”
In the late 1990s the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council had a program that allowed artists to use the unoccupied 10% of the World Trade Center as studio space. It was here that Lawton occupied different studios that looked out onto the adjacent buildings. She noticed that the reflections of the other towers in their glass facades appeared to move and change throughout the day. Lawton explains, "I noticed the architecture, kind of '70s architecture, tends to have distorted glass. I was also experiencing the kind of vertical vertigo that you get when you're in the World Trade Center You know, that kind of 'woosh' of the elevator and the swaying of the building. So I wanted to include that in my work as well."
So many artists and poets have spoken to the play of light and reflection on the surface of water that it seems remarkable that no one until Lawton had paid homage to this occurrence in glass. After all, the glass curtain wall is one of the most defining elements of the modern urban landscape. Liquid City is not only intriguing to look at, it is aptly named, as glass is a cooled liquid. Sand and lime are heated until they are molten, and when this fiery liquid cools it forms into glass. The Ancient Egyptian word for glass was iner en wedeh, which translates as “stone of the kind that flows.” On a molecular level, glass is amorphous like a liquid, and not crystalline like other solid materials.
Liquid City makes us love the concrete jungle in a whole new way.
You can view Pamela's work at http://www.artrentandlease.com/
Great art shows us beauty that is often overlooked. It teaches us to see our everyday world with new eyes. Pamela Lawton has done just that, showing us a view of the city we may not have noticed; the endless reflections of one glass building onto another. “Liquid City”, a series of paintings that captures this phenomenon, is fluid, undulating, colorful and alive. The work is both emotional and musical, as the colors seem to waver with emotion. “Most tourists experience the city from the street level. They're interested in street events," says Lawton. "Instead, I'm looking high up at a beautiful skyscraper that's kind of timeless because it's capturing light, it's capturing rhythms and nature.”
In the late 1990s the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council had a program that allowed artists to use the unoccupied 10% of the World Trade Center as studio space. It was here that Lawton occupied different studios that looked out onto the adjacent buildings. She noticed that the reflections of the other towers in their glass facades appeared to move and change throughout the day. Lawton explains, "I noticed the architecture, kind of '70s architecture, tends to have distorted glass. I was also experiencing the kind of vertical vertigo that you get when you're in the World Trade Center You know, that kind of 'woosh' of the elevator and the swaying of the building. So I wanted to include that in my work as well."
So many artists and poets have spoken to the play of light and reflection on the surface of water that it seems remarkable that no one until Lawton had paid homage to this occurrence in glass. After all, the glass curtain wall is one of the most defining elements of the modern urban landscape. Liquid City is not only intriguing to look at, it is aptly named, as glass is a cooled liquid. Sand and lime are heated until they are molten, and when this fiery liquid cools it forms into glass. The Ancient Egyptian word for glass was iner en wedeh, which translates as “stone of the kind that flows.” On a molecular level, glass is amorphous like a liquid, and not crystalline like other solid materials.
You can view Pamela's work at http://www.artrentandlease.com/
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Promoting Art and the Cabarrus Arts Council
The Cabarrus Arts Council was founded in 1980 in response to the North Carolina Arts Council's plan to establish a local arts council in every county. In 1982 the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners selected the arts council to serve as its Designated County Partner, receiving and distributing Grassroots funding from the state and the state arts council.
Today the arts council programs and operates the Davis Theatre and the Arts Council Galleries, conducts one of North Carolina's largest art-in-education programs for both the Cabarrus County and Kannapolis City school systems, supports arts organizations and artists through grants and workshops, and serves as a catalyst and consultant for public and corporate art.
By supporting the Cabarrus Arts Council and their artists, Art Rent and Lease will help to promote local artists to our clients while providing a rental or leasing alternative to help meet budgetary restrictions clients may have in these tough economic times.
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