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BEFORE AND AFTER
Painter, arts writer, and educator Becky Hendrick reveals the impact of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 on her art and her overall creative processes. She demonstrates various intentions of her lengthy art career and compares painting in order to pay attention to painting (as well as creating in other genres) to say, as if in prayer, "please, please, please..." She details the discovery of the image and the changes made to it --- and the changes the work made to her --- of the small medieval manuscript page titled "Apocalypse." Finally, she shares how she announced her "official retirement from the practice of Art" in a 2007 art piece, and the resulting amateur efforts in photography and poetry/lyrics as a serious yet amateur creative person.
PICTURES
In 2007, Becky Hendrick publicly --- in a multi-part art work, of course --- "retired from the practice of Art," capital A. Since then, she has continued to explore many creative arenas, and photography is one of them: where she used to MAKE pictures, she now TAKES pictures. Using a simple automatic camera set on the most basic setting, looking and locating compositions in her day-to-day world has become a major part of her art, lower case "a." She considers herself to be an amateur, but her pictures show that walking and looking --- undisturbed and solitary --- reveal that art-worthy imagery is everywhere. Unintentionally, her subjects tend to fall into a few categories: passages (doorways, windows, and stairs), primary colors, and simple asymmetrical compositions where "ugly" subject matter display a formal beauty. An online search of her name will lead you to websites and videos demonstrating her wide-ranging Art and art, writing, performance, and other creative endeavors.
Art, Seriously
From previously published essays and articles, artist, writer, and educator Becky Hendrick puts together several talks/writings about Art, capital A. These memoirs document essays given at College Art Association, lessons learned from 50 years of creative work, and specifics on her peripheral (and rarely shown/seen) portraits and self-portraits. It also reproduces a previously published catalogue designed by Jud Burgess (El Paso) about her unintended "series" of Holocaust paintings, as well as Chapter 13: "Mondrian and I," from her highly praised text "Getting It, A Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Art," published in 1999 by Houghton-Mifflin Company, now available from Lulu.com online. This is the first volume of a potential six-pack of small books --- some with words, some with images --- that will eventually sum up this holistic artist's creative work.
___________'s Book of Beliefs
Beliefs are powerful things. They shape our lives and influence public policy. Yet, while we talk about and around our beliefs, we rarely take the time to probe them deeply, question them, justify them, and share them, even with those closest to us. This journal is YOUR book for YOUR beliefs. It is an invitation to explore your beliefs on subjects ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime. Whether you choose to keep your beliefs to yourself or to share them with others, your Book of Beliefs is an opportunity to be open, honest, reflective, and inquisitive and to connect with your most authentic self.
Art Boom: Contemporary Art in El Paso
A collection of critical writings about the El Paso "art scene" of the late 1980s and 1990s, featuring contemporary art in museum, university, and gallery venues, by artist and arts writer Becky Hendrick. Articles appeared in the El Paso Herald-Post, The El Paso Times, Artweek, Artlies, Artspace, and numerous other regional and national arts publications.
Said and Done
Artist, writer, and educator Becky Hendrick uses this volume to conclude an eventual seven-part "memoir" about what making art and talking about it has taught her. Over the years she has written numerous essays on wide ranging topics --- mostly art-related, but as this collection reveals --- including responses to deaths and dying and the lessons learned from both art and life that make living more appreciated and dying more a meditation.
THE BOOK OF KAYIANÉ REBECCA
The Book of Kayiané Rebecca was an "art piece" that came out in book form back in the late 20th century. It presumes to depict the ideas and questions of an ancient character who interacts, quite significantly, with the historic Moses.
The Mississippi Story
The Mississippi Story invites readers to examine the connection between place and the visual arts of the state. Based on an exhibition from the permanent collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art, this book explores artwork produced within the state by artists who were native to or lived in Mississippi or by travelers who created work about the state. Patti Carr Black presents the overall theme of place in four sections: the influence of the land on the art, Mississippi's people as depicted in its art, life in Mississippi as observed by its artists, and the exporting of Mississippi culture through its artists. Numerous artists' biographies are included as well as more than one hundred full-color illustrations.
