The Healing Power of Art - A Conversation with Artist/Retired Judge Jerry Alonzo & Artist/Attorney Gina McKlveen
Description
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 artist & attorney Gina McKlveen
1:05 artist & retired judge Jerry Alonzo - the impact of depression
3:00 documentary American Symphony
3:50 Suleika Jaouad - release she experienced by painting about cancer
6:00 Alonzo’s “Out of Balance”
6:40 “Civic Sacrement"
8:20 woodwork during Alonzo’s time as a judge
10:45 “The Judgment”
11:45 “Justice is God’s Plumb Line”
12:30 Environmental works like “Monstronse”
16:25 asylum work inspired “Matthew 25”
20:30 importance of leaning into the pain
21:35 Emily Gould’s comments
23:30 American Symphony - leaning into anxiety through art
26:25 McKlveen’s response to Alonzo’s work
26:45 “Upturned House” by Phyllida Barlow
27:20 “Inflated Balloons”
28:40 McKlveen’s work leaning into grief and loss
29:35 “Fisherman on the Roof”
42:00 McKlveen’s grandparents
44:50 portraiture versus still life works
47:00 other artists who created still life paintings as portraits, e.g., Van Gogh
48:30 Alonzo’s response to McKlveen
49:05 Gould’s response to McKlveen
49:45 Oluwatobi Aluko’s response
51:00 McKlveen’s planned portrait of grandmother with post box like Mona Lisa
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Music by Toulme.
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