Just Paint, It Ain't: Demystifying the Complex Marriage of Artists and Their Viewers

Gallerists and Curators who troll the land of the Art Elite, would like us to believe that the Art World is too deep for mere mortals to comprehend, especially when they hear, "That painting looks like an MRI of my hip "

Using the portfolio of her 40-year career, artist/author/teacher Kim Howes Zabbia simplifies the mysterious and funny art business to teach this awkward pair, Artists and their Viewers, to "talk art" like the pros.

Author: Kim Howes Zabbia
Publisher: Maas Press
Published: 04/01/2019
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780578473291

About the Author
Zabbia, Kim Howes: - Kim Howes Zabbia, a lifelong resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, is an author, artist and teacher. With a B.A. in English and Journalism from Southeastern Louisiana University and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Louisiana State University, Zabbia retired in 2007 from Ponchatoula High School to open The Art Station, an art school for adults, in downtown. Since its opening, The Art Station has taken in over 4,000 registrations for classes and received the Innovator of the Year Award from N.O. City Business magazine. Zabbia has had 24 solo exhibitions since 1990. Currently represented by Ariodante Gallery on Julia Street in New Orleans and the New Orleans Art Center, Zabbia was honored with a 24-year Retrospective exhibit at the Pensacola Museum of Art in 2014. Author of Painted Diaries: a Mother and Daughter's Experience through Alzheimer's (Fairview Press, 1996), Zabbia delivered forty lectures around the country, including the Byron D. Griffith Memorial Lecture at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, and served on the Louisiana Governor's Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease. Kim is married to Bob Zabbia, Ponchatoula's Mayor since 2004, and they have one daughter and son-in-law, Kate and JD Stuart, and three grands, Maggie, Alice-Anne and Sam.