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Conquering the Google*
I just made a momentous purchase. I bought the web domain barbaracarter.com. Wait, I hear you say, don’t I already have my own domain? I have a website, and it shows up (right at the top, in fact) if...
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Art Show in Thousand Oaks, California June 2-3, 2012
My next art show is coming up! Conejo Valley Art Museum Artwalk 2012 is an outdoor fine art and craft show held the first weekend of June every year. I haven’t shown at this event in a few years, so I...
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New painting: “Hills”
Between Los Angeles and San Francisco lie hundreds of miles of California landscape. Somewhere out there I snapped a photo out the car window. A few years later a painting emerged. This one’s a bit...
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Kings Mountain Art Fair
If you want to see my latest paintings, you need to come to my next show: the Kings Mountain Art Fair, Labor Day Weekend, September 1-3, 2012. People who come to the show get first crack at the new...
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Highlights from Art Platform L.A. 2012
The two-year-old international art fair Art Platform was held September 28-30, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. That also happened to be the weekend when the biggest freeway of Los Angeles was...
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Silver Lake Art Collective annual exhibit 2012
Fall is in the air, and the annual Silver Lake Art Collective annual exhibit is on! Following careful preparation… the show is finally ready for prime time. My work is there… (If you’re not sure which...
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Silverlake Open Studios Nov. 10-11, 2012
An annual tradition, I’m showing my work at the Silverlake Open Studio tour this weekend, November 10-11, 2012. That’s the Silverlake neighborhood in Los Angeles. Now, my studio isn’t in Silverlake. I...
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Hiking in the New Year
I’m not “ringing” in the New Year, I’m “hiking” it in! Getting out and tramping around is how I get inspired to paint. After abundant winter rains, southern California greened up. This is as green as...
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The 2013 Los Angeles Art Show
I scaled back this year. I opted to attend only one big January art fair, the LA Art Show (under new management). I decided to skip Art LA Contemporary, held in Santa Monica the same weekend. The third...
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2013 Scottsdale Arts Festival March 8-10
I’m going for the best. It’s my very first out-of-state art show, all the way in Scottsdale, Arizona. There are a lot of art shows in Arizona (no, really, a LOT) but by all accounts the Scottsdale Arts...
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Scottsdale: When you gamble, sometimes you lose
I was so excited to do the big art show in Scottsdale, Arizona. (The Scottsdale Arts Festival, March 2013) Some sad, soggy art. It was a gamble. I knew that. Coming from out of state meant my travel...
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Beverly Hills Art Show – May 18-19, 2013
I’m showing my art in the beautiful Beverly Hills Art Show this year. Held in a lovely park in the heart of Beverly Hills, this is easily the best Los Angeles outdoor art show. It’s well worth visiting...
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La Jolla Festival of the Arts – June 22-23, 2013
I and my booth full of paintings are traveling next to the La Jolla Festival of the Arts. I did this annual show only once before, several years ago. It’s about time I went back, don’t you agree?...
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Some good press
Fellow Los Angeles artist and friend Sarah Hage wrote about my art in her blog. I didn’t know until after she published it. “Hope you don’t mind I blogged about you” she wrote me. No, I don’t mind. I’m...
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Kings Mountain Art Fair turns 50
I love showing my art at the Kings Mountain Art Fair. It’s held once a year, on Labor Day weekend (end of August/early September). This year marks the show’s 50th anniversary! Woo! Congratulations...
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Postcards!
A couple times a year I mail postcards to announce an upcoming art show or group of shows I’m doing. (I say a “couple” because it’s been exactly two per year for several years now. But maybe some year...
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The 2014 Los Angeles Art Show
Every January for the past 19 years, art galleries from all over the world have schlepped selected works of art to Los Angeles for the LA Art Show. Other large art fairs here seem to come and go, but...
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The 2014 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
For a few days I escaped from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. I visited several art galleries, saw a very fine Richard Diebenkorn exhibit at the Palm Springs Art Museum, and attended the Palm Springs Fine...
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