Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Over the past two decades, Carl Gopalkrishnan's artwork has garnered international recognition for his ability to forge meaningful connections between art & literature and the complex dynamics driving international law, intervention and global conflict. Carl transforms familiar cultural artefacts into new myths so legal and military minds can explore the creative, subconscious and emotional stories that shape their doctrines of war & peace. (Photograph copyright © Amanda Brown 1992)
Studio Notes: Drawings. I Can’t Breathe either.
This drawing is how I felt after watching George Floyd die on the internet and the BLM riots and the Covid 19 pandemic lockdown, I can only post this and hope we will get through this together. SInce then we’ve also had January 6th in the US….
Sharing my art with students of the classics reading ‘The Oresteia’, University of Florida.
I somehow got chatting with Prof Victoria Pagan, an expert in classic literature at the University of Florida in the US who was teaching an undergraduate class on The Oresteia. My painting A Many Splendored Thing (2020), and the Furies became a trigger for a class discussion.
Writings: My new article for The Queer Psychoanalysis Society’s journal The Qouch, April 2013, USA
Queer theory isn't for everyone I know, but if you know me, you know that I have different levels to my work. Thank you to The Qouch for inviting me to write about my series of paintings - The Assassination of Judy Garland
Featured Artist: I was interviewed for American progressive Jewish magazine Tikkun Daily in July 2011, USA. Great interview.
Tikkun Daily ( Tikkun Magazine's daily blog) interviewed me about my art and, as always with good interviews, made me think better about my painting and how (and why) I go about what I do.
Poetry Journal: My art for poets in LGBTIQ+ Phati'tuide Magazine Vol2 #2 New York City, USA
I have art in the LGBT Literature Issue of Phati'tude Magazine in New York City. These poets, they really inspire me.
Featured Interview: I really let loose for San Francisco poetry journal ‘Lady Jane's Miscellany’ as their Featured Artist, USA 2010
Lady Jane's Miscellany magazine features the work of critically acclaimed poets, dramatists, essayists, short story writers, artists and more! I'm really pleased to be the featured artist for their 2nd issue.