PAUL’S WORK WITH PAINTERS, PHOTOGRAPHERs & Dancers
Brush & Dance & Bow Improvisations
Sandra Hansen & Yali Rivlin & Paul Erhard
Coming soon: videos from September 19, 2021 performance at Mission Point Theater, Mackinac Island, MI.
James Jordan & Paul Erhard
Brush and Bow Improvisations
Visit Jim at “Bass & James Jordan” page
SEE MORE OF JIM’S PAINTINGS IN GALLERY
Leslie Laskey & Paul Erhard
Pastel and Double Bass Improvisations
Visit Leslie at “Bass & Leslie Laskey” page
Leslie Laskey “Marks” for Paul
Yali Rivlin & Paul Erhard
Dance & double Bass Improvisations
Visit Yali at “Bass & Yali Rivlin” page
Pattti Sevensma/Paul Erhard “Hidden Treasures”
Patti Sevensma writes: Paul contacted The International Society of Experimental Artists and Pushing Boundaries 2020 Symposium looking for an artist to collaborate with. I am president of ISEA so I received this call. ISEA put the call out to our membership and I also answered his call myself and said I would love to work together and see what we could come up with. I am a multi medium artist whose work usually starts with my photography. I have concentrated on photography for more than 40 years.
We talked via phone and decided that photography would be the easiest way to start this collaboration since Paul lives in Colorado and I am in Michigan. After discussions about our common love for the Lake Michigan shoreline I chose about 50 photographs all relating to water. I put these into a video for us to view together. We worked to narrow down the images…
eliminating some and giving others more time by introducing cropped segments of several. It was also decided that the end result should be not longer than five minutes. The size of the video, according to the rules for entry into the ISEA annual exhibition, could not be larger than 100MB. Once the images were selected I made them into smaller versions so we would be within the 100 MB goal.
Then it was Paul’s turn to create the music, perform it on his double bass, and make our video collaboration come to life. Paul’s friend David Levine put our production together into the end result. Our video “Hidden Treasures” is alive and I am humbly proud and pleased to be part of this artistic collaboration, a first for me.
Jamey Barnard
Improvisation #3 with Paul May 15, 2020
Paul and Michigan artist Jamey Barnard (also a drummer in the Benzie Playboys Zydaco band) began jamming together as a drum/bass duo about 5 years ago in Jamey’s art studio. Things clicked immediately as Jamey and Paul found it so easy and natural to settle into rhythmic grooves with each other…. so much fun. Three years ago, Jamey, blues pianist John Lawson and Paul began playing together, leading to the formation of Two Lake Trio. Long an admirer of Jamey’s paintings, Paul played his bass while enjoying looking …
at the strong colors, shapes and characters of Jamey’s unique paintings hanging on the walls of Jamey’s studio as the trio rehearsed. Jamey’s paintings added a new dimension to Paul’s bass playing. The seeds for TIME ART SPACE ART were planted as the idea of doing some kind of music/painting collaboration was pondered. Finally, on May 15,2020, Jamey and Paul put their creative simpatico together for three live improvisations with Jamey and Paul interacting and responding to each other in real time via internet video conferencing.
Jenni Bateman
Improvisation #1 with Paul Erhard
Jenni Bateman and Paul’s first collaboration improvising with paint and music was over zoom on June 2, 2020. The experience was inspiring for both artists. They had looked forward to more in-person creating during the summer of 2020, but with covid, that was not possible. Jenni & Paul had also planned on giving a concert & workshop on their paint/music improvising at the 2020 International Society of Experimental Artists ISEA “Pushing the Boundaries” conference in Canada. That event was postponed. Jenni and Paul now plan to perform/teach at the 2021 ISEA conference on Mackinac Island MI.
Robert deJonge “Dragon Skill Hill”
Bob is a native Michigander who has been working as a designer and artist for over forty years. He has embraced the world of digital imaging to create art that pushes the boundaries of what is typically considered photography. His work has gained recognition and resulted in ……..
… the publishing of a book that features the landscapes of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. In the last ten years he has been awarded five artist-in-residence positions at national parks and often provides workshops on creativity and digital imaging. Bob looks for opportunities to collaborate with other artists — especially in disciplines other than his own — a firm believer that when artists challenge and support each other — exciting things happen.
Paul Erhard Collaboration
Fall 2019: Was excited to be contacted by Paul who had discovered my book at the Crooked Tree Art Center in Traverse City, Michigan. After several emails and a couple phone calls we agreed to spend a day together, touring Northwest Lower Michigan — especially the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The shared love of the lakes, dunes, forests, wetlands, and old homesteads helped form a bond that resulted in an evening collaboration back at the Erhard summer residence. Paul opened my book to an image that he found exciting and proceded to weave a magical piece of music that filled my soul.
Philip Joseph “Almost Still Life”
Philip Joseph has been an active painter and maker most of his life. His beginnings on a farm in the northern Great Lakes started his life- long interest in the landscape, and he always experimented with a wide range of approaches to Art-making. While painting is his primary focus, he has worked extensively with wood, and has done large architectural sculpture in bronze.
Joseph studied Art at Manchester University and received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Michigan State, where he studied under Angelo Ippolito….
Joseph joined the faculty of Miami University, Ohio, and taught painting and drawing there for thirty years. He has exhibited extensively, and has work in over one hundred public and corporate collections from New Jersey to California. He has done numerous commissions for corporate and private clients and has worked with galleries in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, and Georgia.
After leaving teaching Joseph returned to northern Michigan where he built a home and studio near the lake. He is busy and active in the studio, and when not painting pursues his interest in building wooden boats and sailing on the Great Lakes. His paintings of recent years continue to alternate between traditional landscape and highly intuitive abstract paintings. The non- objective works usually start with some elemental color ideas, some intuitive gestural drawing, and then a free-flowing dialog between elements begins.
Joseph has an in-house critic with great insight, sensitivity, and objective strength in the person of his wife Susan, who is an accomplished painter. Their very different aesthetic styles provide lively and useful counterpoint and debate.