Cathleen toelke biography

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    Interview with Marc Burckhardt

    by Cathleen Toelke

    June 18,

    Historical art shows us where we came from. Contemporary art reflects where we are now. Marc Burckhardt, a widely published and recognized artist from Austin, Texas, combines the two.



    What led you to use an array of historical influences to create commentaries on the present?

    "American Thoroughbred", acrylic & oil on wood

    Wow—into the deep end of the pool! I grew up in a small town in Texas, but my folks were university professors and my father was from Europe, so we spent large portions of our summers overseas with his family. My mother was a painter as well, so inom grew up visiting art museums, and like most kids, inom drew all the time. That environment deeply influenced the imagery I created. I got my undergraduate degree in Art History as well as painting, and funnen the conceptual and symbolic language of historical work as influential as the technical aspects. Leo Steinberg's "Sexua

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    Cathleen Toelke is an artist based in Rhinebeck, NY, north of New York City. She began working as a full-time artist in , and has been creating designed paintings known for their distinctive, sculptural figures, for over 20 years. Since , her work has been awarded yearly in art annuals including the Communications Arts Illustration Annual, Graphis Design, Print’s Regional Design Annual, The Society of Illustrators, and American Illustration. Toelke was profiled in Print Magazine in , Communication Arts in , and American Artist’s Watercolor Magazine in

    Toelke is recognized for her editorial paintings &#;&#; bookcovers, especially many exotic, emotionally charged &#;&#;es for celebrated authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Oscar Hiluelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), and Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate). A favorite project is a mural-sized oil painting for the lobby of The Millennium Hotel/The Premier in Times Square. Toelke has lectu

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    Mistress of Spices

    novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    First edition

    AuthorChitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    Cover&#;artistCathleen Toelke
    LanguageEnglish
    GenreNovel
    PublisherDoubleday

    Publication date

    		6 February
    Publication placeUnited States
    Media&#;typePrint (hardback & paperback)
    Pages pp (first edition, hardback)
    ISBN (first edition, hardback)
    OCLC

    The Mistress of Spices, (), set in contemporary Oakland, California, is a novel by Indian American writer and University of Houston Creative Writing Program professor Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

    Plot

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    Tilo, the titular character, is a shopkeeper born in India and trained in magic, who helps customers satisfy their needs and desires with the mystical properties of spices. Her life changes when she falls for an American man named Raven, whom the book strongly implies is Native American. Unfortunately, she chooses to disregard the rules of her training in

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