Vivian Liddell

King Nebuchadnezzar with Skull, 2025. Ink and charcoal on paper, 10x13”
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Lisa Yuskavage’s White Hot Women Often considered provocative, her nude women embody a patriarchal status quo of feminine desirability, and the privileges that come with it.

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Finally someone puts into words the discomfort I feel with Yuskavage. I admire her as a painter, but the subject has never sat squarely with me as a feminist.

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Abstract ink and charcoal drawing. Black and tan. Two figures that are hard to make out in the forest with snakes.

Maenad finds Nebuchadnezzar in the Woods, 2025. Ink and charcoal on paper, 10 x 13"

Death of Sardanapalus, After Delacroix (With Climbing hempvine and Metalmark), 36 x 24 in, Egg tempera on panel

I’m staring at this thing with proud mama love! Just finished. Largest egg tempera I’ve ever made—been working on it since March 👀 I’ll post a process video soon; it’s made up of an insane amount of transparent glazes.

My first bronze cast. I made the original clay piece a while back as a prop for an animation using my dog Hank as a model. Hank passed away recently and I thought making a bronze of it would be a lovely tribute 🐕 ❤️

Large ink drawings on the floor today.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Save Historic Legion Pool !

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Atlanta Art Fair Shines a Spotlight on the Southeast The second edition of the show embraced unexpected artworks, price transparency, and a spirit of community among galleries from the region.

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When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging” If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.

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I’m deep into four large scale egg temperas (2 shown here). 18 layers deep on the left one! 2nd pic: an update of the deer detail I posted earlier. 3rd pic: a work in progress pic of the painting on the left.

There is no bigger fan of my egg tempera paintings. I give him my mess ups and discarded whites. 🥰

If you’re looking for a zen master I recommend Rick Rubin. Summer reading this with my 14 yr-old & it’s sparked some great convos 👩‍🎨

Two people in a dark party setting wearing paper mache masks on their heads

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Our current artist Paul Leroy @paulleroyart.bsky.social has made the final update to his “Tree of Life” installation outside the Hotel Indigo. Some of the pieces in his installation can also be found in this music video he recently worked on (that’s Paul in the green mask!).

Detail image from a painting showing loblolly pine bark on a section of tree with a hazy light blue grey background and part of a fluorescent pink Nike baseball cap visible in lower left.

Lost in tree bark today! Detail from a large egg tempera painting in progress.

Professor Liddell, summer session. Painting a mural outside in June in the South; we do what we gotta do to make it happen☀️💦

The Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens GA is hiring a part-time Art Prep Program Leader. Applications will be accepted until Thursday, July 3rd at 11:59pm. Link to job information here: Job Bulletin www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/newprin...

Peter Doig when Martin Gayford asked him why painting “remained current”: “I don’t think that’s really for painters. When people have decided to paint, they enter that world. Once you’ve made that decision, the question isn’t really relevant. It’s a question for outsiders.”

Studio visit today; painted the walls and swept the floors! Egg temperas on the walls are all still in progress— except the finished little one on the far left.

Egg temperas in progress-Only the little one on far left is finished…

Detail pattern of tiny flowers, leaves and birds on a red and pink ground inside a blue arch.

Not sure why I thought it was a good idea to paint this pattern in the background?! Egg tempera is transparent— so I’ve had to go over it TWICE after it faded under several layers. An exercise in patience.

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Andre 3000 performs for Grady babies as part of pop-up concert series OutKast’s Andre 3000 has been performing a series of pop-up concerts in and around Atlanta recently, and one took place in a special venue.

Andre 3000 performs for Grady babies as part of pop-up concert series

Seated clay figures with weird hats “cheersing” each other with a mini can and mini bottle of beers made of clay, in front of a blurred animation set/artist studio

Thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a grant from The Puffin Foundation @puffinfoundation.bsky.social for my next animation project! 🎉 Time to get to work!

Pink pottery face jug with horns

She Devil Face Jug Heather Elyse Head & Dal Burtchaell 2024 This piece won Best in Show at the 2024 Folk Pottery & Arts Festival. Best in Show is selected by the Folk Pottery Museum Trustees each year and is displayed in the museum for one year. Dal Burtchaell turned the piece and Heather Elyse Head sculpted the face andgg horns. Heather and Dal, both from Gillsville, GA, often work in collaboration. From the Collection of the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia A Gift from the Artists

Visited the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia on my way to go tubing in Helen on a whim today. Highly recommend.

I feel like I have a teacher in Delacroix from across centuries 🪄

Thinking about Eugene Delacroix’s journal as I work on this egg tempera: “Rembrandt would have only shown the head, the hands and clothes he would scarcely have indicated…I feel it would be clumsy if I attempted such effects.” Maybe I’m gonna go “Rembrandt” on these flailing feet!

Inspired by the 6?! new shows that opened at the Lyndon House last night! Up until Aug 30. Pics 1&2: “Freak Flag II” by @vicduggerstudio.bsky.social Pics 2&3: “Three moons, Two irises, Guiding me and you” by Yanira Vissepó

You don’t love flying? 😅 Given your art I KNOW you’ve met a wolf-dog…