Once again, I came across a painter from the past of which I knew absolutely nothing. That is nothing new but when I first saw these paintings I was shocked he was unknown to not only me but to most other people as well. Actually, his biography is pretty thin in content but the sheer [...]
Archive for January, 2012
The First Modernist?
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Neat Stuff, tagged Grant Wood, Thomas Chambers, Thomas Cole, Thomas Hart Benton, William Matthew Prior on January 31, 2012 | 6 Comments »
A Visit to the Heartland
Posted in Favorite Things, Neat Stuff, tagged Fatima Ronquillo, Watts Fine Art, Wendy Chidester on January 30, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I came home from my roadtrip last week and decided to take a few days off from the blog. It was a pretty good trip, even with some iffy weather for travelling, that crossed some of the flat, open farmlands of the midwest. Heartland. On this trip, I was especially encouraged by my visit to Watts Fine [...]
Travel Days
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, tagged Indianapolis, Watts Fine Art on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on the road for the next couple of days so check back later for the next post here. I’m heading out to the Indianapolis area where I’m delivering a new group of work to Watts Fine Art, a gallery located in Zionsville, a suburb of Indy. I’m excited to visit this gallery and to [...]
The Unfortunate Rake
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History, Video, tagged St. James Infirmary Blues, The Unfortunate Rake, Van Morrison on January 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This painting took a long time to emerge. I started with just a large block of color, originally feeling that there was a distant, stark landscape in it. But it never felt completely right and I let it sit for many months, occasionally picking it up and trying to decipher what it might hold. But [...]
The Coney Island Coaster of David Levine
Posted in Biographical, Favorite Things, Influences, tagged Coney Island, David Levine on January 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I’ve written here before about the work of David Levine, the late artist best known for his wonderful caricatures of public figures and politicos that graced many magazines for several decades, writing once about a caricature of composer Richard Wagner and another time about a painting of a pig’s head . Despite his fame as a pen-and-ink caricaturist, Levine [...]
Gulp
Posted in Video, Neat Stuff, tagged Aardman Animations, Gulp, Gumby, Sumo Science, Wallace and Gromit on January 22, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I thought I’d show something a bit different this Sunday. I came across an interesting little video called Gulp which bills itself as the world’s largest stop-motion animation. Plus it’s shot entirely on a Nokia N8 cellphone. It’s a short film depicting a fisherman and a difefrent sort of day on the ocean. It was [...]
Weegee: Murder is My Business
Posted in Favorite Things, Video, tagged International Center for Photography, Ouija board, Weegee on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A friend pointed out to me that that a new exhibition of work opened yesterday at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan featuring the work of the fabled NY freelance crime photographer, Weegee. Most have seen his work in some form, perhaps in his graphic shots of murder scenes or the less lurid but still compelling shots of [...]
Rooted in Harmony
Posted in Music, Recent Paintings, Video, tagged New Paintings, Simon and Garfunkel on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been working on a group of new work that will be going to a gallery in the Indianapolis area that is new to me. I’ve been working on pieces that I feel are very representative of my voice, knowing that it will be a first view of my work for most of the people [...]
The First?
Posted in Influences, Neat Stuff, Technique/History, tagged Asher Durand, Carolyn Bennett, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Catskills, Greene County, Levi L. Hill, Luminous Lint on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was rummaging around in one of my favorite sites, Luminous Lint, looking for something that would somehow sum up the world of Kodak and Kodachrome film on this day when they file for bankruptcy, the end of an era. As I flipped through the photos this image caught my eye. There was a blaze of green that lit [...]
A Strange & Special Air
Posted in Painting, Quote, Recent Paintings, tagged Leonard Bernstein, New Paintings on January 18, 2012 | 4 Comments »
“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” —Leonard Bernstein ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I came across this quote [...]
