emszuplat
@emszuplat.bsky.social
artist, resident at Arches Studios—
Cape Codder living in the UK
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· Nov 17
If you want to know what the mood is post-US election overseas, so far here in the UK it’s been friends and strangers asking if you’re ok and offering hugs. So—simultaneously heart-warming and heart-breaking.
A little late night doodle as it gets chilly here in Hampshire, England. The maritime climate provides a mild temperature range year-round, but the landscape is idyllic when the temperature dips low to 0’C and the winter light lands on the heavy morning frost.
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
A little late night doodle as it gets chilly here in Hampshire, England. The maritime climate provides a mild temperature range year-round, but the landscape is idyllic when the temperature dips low to 0’C and the winter light lands on the heavy morning frost.
The role of art in society is to remain open. —Professor Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University, discussing slow looking at art on BBC Front Row podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The role of art in society is to remain open. —Professor Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University, discussing slow looking at art on BBC Front Row podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
I’m delighted to have been invited to contribute to The August Drift & Dribble Literary Society!
@driftanddribble.bsky.social is reader's compendium of wit, observation and literary amusements.
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@driftanddribble.bsky.social is reader's compendium of wit, observation and literary amusements.
www.augustdriftanddribble.com/szuplatsketc...
Notes From Abroad – Erica M. Szuplat
Notes From Abroad: I struck gold with this Royal Talens sketchbook I picked up in Gothenburg, Sweden. The cadmium red hardbound cover caught my eye and the creamy pages were a hefty weight (similar to...
www.augustdriftanddribble.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I’m delighted to have been invited to contribute to The August Drift & Dribble Literary Society!
@driftanddribble.bsky.social is reader's compendium of wit, observation and literary amusements.
www.augustdriftanddribble.com/szuplatsketc...
@driftanddribble.bsky.social is reader's compendium of wit, observation and literary amusements.
www.augustdriftanddribble.com/szuplatsketc...
Words from Charles Hawthorne provide some comfort as I happily dive back into figure/life drawing this week after several weeks away. “Clumsiness indicates a struggle to put things down right, an honest effort to grasp the truth.”
October 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Words from Charles Hawthorne provide some comfort as I happily dive back into figure/life drawing this week after several weeks away. “Clumsiness indicates a struggle to put things down right, an honest effort to grasp the truth.”
Shared a coffee break at the fabulous Vintage Paper Co. in Stromness last week with the wisdom of Charles Hawthorne and a local companion. #CapeCodSchoolofArt #HawthorneonPainting
September 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Shared a coffee break at the fabulous Vintage Paper Co. in Stromness last week with the wisdom of Charles Hawthorne and a local companion. #CapeCodSchoolofArt #HawthorneonPainting
For those who still enjoy a thoughtful read where family (Boston/Cape Cod you’re my home), cameras (Leica, Olympus, & Nikon), photography, & the moments in life that add up to our existence all intertwine- I offer this essay in words and photos by @benshotme.bsky.social benshotme.com/selected-alb...
Glimmers of a Leica
I don’t remember when exactly I became aware of Leica cameras. I do remember the feeling of depressing a Leica shutter for the first time. Mechanical bliss. Time frozen forever. Y…
benshotme.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
For those who still enjoy a thoughtful read where family (Boston/Cape Cod you’re my home), cameras (Leica, Olympus, & Nikon), photography, & the moments in life that add up to our existence all intertwine- I offer this essay in words and photos by @benshotme.bsky.social benshotme.com/selected-alb...
“Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color— after you have covered acres of canvas you will know.” Charles Hawthorne, Cape Cod School of Art, Hawthorne on Painting
September 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color— after you have covered acres of canvas you will know.” Charles Hawthorne, Cape Cod School of Art, Hawthorne on Painting
Time away from some cares of the world, reprioritising time with family, friends, and myself, and a change of scenery is worthwhile in itself but also reminds me how these things are crucial for feeding our inspiration.
Stromness morning, Caran d’ache Neocolor II wax pastels, Montmartre sketchbook
Stromness morning, Caran d’ache Neocolor II wax pastels, Montmartre sketchbook
September 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Time away from some cares of the world, reprioritising time with family, friends, and myself, and a change of scenery is worthwhile in itself but also reminds me how these things are crucial for feeding our inspiration.
Stromness morning, Caran d’ache Neocolor II wax pastels, Montmartre sketchbook
Stromness morning, Caran d’ache Neocolor II wax pastels, Montmartre sketchbook
“To erase from museums, this nation’s public memory, what happened to Emmett would be another white supremacist atrocity done to his brutally abbreviated life.”
Seventy years later, America has yet to reckon with Emmett Till's murder. An excerpt from my latest OUTTAKES newsletter www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/28/o...
Seventy years later, America has yet to reckon with Emmett Till’s murder - The Boston Globe
History isn’t that many yesterdays ago.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“To erase from museums, this nation’s public memory, what happened to Emmett would be another white supremacist atrocity done to his brutally abbreviated life.”
“As Dow advised… select the best of your compositions and correct them. Architects use tracing paper… Japanese artists trace again and again until satisfied.” from Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
August 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“As Dow advised… select the best of your compositions and correct them. Architects use tracing paper… Japanese artists trace again and again until satisfied.” from Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
I’ve been working on this self-portrait for about 3 yrs. and this week am refinding direction. Today, I’m seeing, my aunt, my cousin, and my grandmother staring back at me. 🇺🇦 #workinprogress
~118 cm x 133 cm, oil on Arches oil paper & Blackwing Palomino pencil on tracing paper
~118 cm x 133 cm, oil on Arches oil paper & Blackwing Palomino pencil on tracing paper
July 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I’ve been working on this self-portrait for about 3 yrs. and this week am refinding direction. Today, I’m seeing, my aunt, my cousin, and my grandmother staring back at me. 🇺🇦 #workinprogress
~118 cm x 133 cm, oil on Arches oil paper & Blackwing Palomino pencil on tracing paper
~118 cm x 133 cm, oil on Arches oil paper & Blackwing Palomino pencil on tracing paper
When I’ve gone too far in the wrong direction, I’ll make some breakout sketches on the side to remedy and simplify proportions, line, or volume of the head, limbs, or extremeties.
Sunday with Winchester Life Drawing Club at the Arc.
Sunday with Winchester Life Drawing Club at the Arc.
July 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
When I’ve gone too far in the wrong direction, I’ll make some breakout sketches on the side to remedy and simplify proportions, line, or volume of the head, limbs, or extremeties.
Sunday with Winchester Life Drawing Club at the Arc.
Sunday with Winchester Life Drawing Club at the Arc.
Lovely life session last night at God’s House Tower. Thanks to Lucie Smith & ZING for organising, Stewart Beckett, AROI for timekeeping, and Julien Frost for modelling!
July 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Lovely life session last night at God’s House Tower. Thanks to Lucie Smith & ZING for organising, Stewart Beckett, AROI for timekeeping, and Julien Frost for modelling!
The balconies of the council flats in my neighbourhood appear to me like miniature stages or dioramas. I made these small oil studies last year from pencil sketches made on location, which I hope imbues them with a bit of atmospheric presence and reduces the imagery to the most crucial elements.
July 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The balconies of the council flats in my neighbourhood appear to me like miniature stages or dioramas. I made these small oil studies last year from pencil sketches made on location, which I hope imbues them with a bit of atmospheric presence and reduces the imagery to the most crucial elements.
Friends, I’m making a personal appeal for the first time on Bluesky. If you are in a position to, will you help my dear cousin Brianna fight brain cancer? www.gofundme.com/f/help-brian...
July 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Friends, I’m making a personal appeal for the first time on Bluesky. If you are in a position to, will you help my dear cousin Brianna fight brain cancer? www.gofundme.com/f/help-brian...
Great to be back after a few weeks away from life drawing! Thanks to Winchester Life Drawing Club at the Arc.
A couple of sketches from the short poses—5, 5, and 2 minutes
oil pastel on paper
A couple of sketches from the short poses—5, 5, and 2 minutes
oil pastel on paper
July 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Great to be back after a few weeks away from life drawing! Thanks to Winchester Life Drawing Club at the Arc.
A couple of sketches from the short poses—5, 5, and 2 minutes
oil pastel on paper
A couple of sketches from the short poses—5, 5, and 2 minutes
oil pastel on paper
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The exhibition derives its title ("On Nonconformity") from Shahn's own writing, & this passage at the beginning of the show should be required reading today: "The degree of nonconformity present—and tolerated—in a society might be looked upon as a symptom of its state of health."
June 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The exhibition derives its title ("On Nonconformity") from Shahn's own writing, & this passage at the beginning of the show should be required reading today: "The degree of nonconformity present—and tolerated—in a society might be looked upon as a symptom of its state of health."
We want to set up an environment where the decision making occurs free of the misguiding force of persuasion. -Rick Rubin
July 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We want to set up an environment where the decision making occurs free of the misguiding force of persuasion. -Rick Rubin
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The reports coming out of ICE field offices are deeply concerning. So is the fact that ICE is trying to keep those horrific conditions hidden from the American people.
We’re sounding the alarm.
ICE’s abuse of power has to end.
We’re sounding the alarm.
ICE’s abuse of power has to end.
June 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The reports coming out of ICE field offices are deeply concerning. So is the fact that ICE is trying to keep those horrific conditions hidden from the American people.
We’re sounding the alarm.
ICE’s abuse of power has to end.
We’re sounding the alarm.
ICE’s abuse of power has to end.
Events for Inside the Artist’s Studio: 20 Years of the Arches are being announced! Learn to paint landscapes on the rooftop of the GHT Tower with Stewart Beckett AROI (Associate of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters), Saturday, July 12 · 1:30 - 4pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-r...
Workshop: Roof Top ‘En Plein Air’ Workshop with Stewart Beckett AROI
Learn to paint landscapes outside on the rooftop of God's House Tower.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Events for Inside the Artist’s Studio: 20 Years of the Arches are being announced! Learn to paint landscapes on the rooftop of the GHT Tower with Stewart Beckett AROI (Associate of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters), Saturday, July 12 · 1:30 - 4pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-r...
Excited to be part of this exhibition— a glimpse into the artist’s studio and a celebration of 20 years of Arches Studios! godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/insi...
June 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Excited to be part of this exhibition— a glimpse into the artist’s studio and a celebration of 20 years of Arches Studios! godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/insi...
I take back my premature congrats as those in power at the museum have joined those shamefully capitulating to the President’s ignorant abuse of power and efforts to spread his white supremacist ideology. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
June 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I take back my premature congrats as those in power at the museum have joined those shamefully capitulating to the President’s ignorant abuse of power and efforts to spread his white supremacist ideology. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
It’s popular (& not inaccurate) rn to compare current attitudes & actions in the US to that of the Nazis but you don’t have to go abroad for idealogical parallels. The US has its own racist, eugenic history- thanks Michael Lobel for illuminating these connections in the US art world.
In an essay I wrote for Artforum a few years ago, to be included in upcoming MOCA Monuments exhibition catalogue, I traced the connections between Confederate monuments and Nazi rhetoric of degenerate art www.artforum.com/columns/mich...
American Degeneracy
Michael Lobel on Confederate memorials and the history of “degenerate art"
www.artforum.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
It’s popular (& not inaccurate) rn to compare current attitudes & actions in the US to that of the Nazis but you don’t have to go abroad for idealogical parallels. The US has its own racist, eugenic history- thanks Michael Lobel for illuminating these connections in the US art world.
Reposted by emszuplat
Four downtown LA art spaces — the Japanese American National Museum, the Chinese American Museum, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, and Grand Performances — issued a joint statement calling the federal government’s response to the city’s anti-ICE protests a “manufactured crisis.”
LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters
While small groups issue condemnations of state violence and share helpful resources for communities under attack, the big museums largely remain silent.
hyperallergic.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Four downtown LA art spaces — the Japanese American National Museum, the Chinese American Museum, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, and Grand Performances — issued a joint statement calling the federal government’s response to the city’s anti-ICE protests a “manufactured crisis.”
Morning musing: sketchbooks are a record of what the artist is looking at over time, a way of notekeeping. Even a single page may be filled with imagery that arises over the course of several days, weeks, or sometimes, years.
Palomino Blackwing pencil in A5 Blue Acorn Journal
Palomino Blackwing pencil in A5 Blue Acorn Journal
June 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Morning musing: sketchbooks are a record of what the artist is looking at over time, a way of notekeeping. Even a single page may be filled with imagery that arises over the course of several days, weeks, or sometimes, years.
Palomino Blackwing pencil in A5 Blue Acorn Journal
Palomino Blackwing pencil in A5 Blue Acorn Journal