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Friday, October 30, 2015

In the Studio Today


Well, this is how the studio looked just before we vacated it at the end of August.....And it's still how I feel a little.  I expected to put away the artmaking habit for a while until things got settled here in South Florida - Hollywood Fl. to be exact.   I figured I'd devote my excess time to writing, and I've maintained that effort fairly consistently until just recently when I started getting some jobs in the area. 

I've done just a little tinkering, my attention focused on objectness potential of the hollowed out coconut shells I've harvested from the tree in our back yard. 

I haven't yet mustered the focus or energy to get much useful activity rolling, be it written or visual but that hankering is starting to scratch at the door.  I'm just mustering up the gumption to get up and answer.

The studio I currently have rests largely in my head, but I have a corner or two I can commandeer when I need. 

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Massive one day art sale Aug 8, right here in Beacon, NY


The time is nigh.  After some 13 years, we will soon be leaving Beacon.  As such I will be holding an unbelievable, not to be repeated (in the foreseeable future) colossal, massive studio sale.  I'll be offering up virtually all the artworks currently in my studio for an almost criminal price.  One must see this to believe it.  And you can, for one day only. 

That day is August 8th. 

Yes, in just three weeks I'll be unleashing an amazing opportunity for folks who adore my work, and are looking walk away with a wall-worthy piece of art to covet and hold dear at less than a dear price.

More details to come.  Stay tuned.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Father's Day: The 3 stages toward manhood

sketchbook, 6.17.2012

I've only managed to reach the level of stage 2 manliness.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Inside Out

no title, 2015 oil on canvas, 60"x 90"

Saturday, May 23, 2015

In the studio today


Somethymes We Rhymes



OK, it's not truly a rhyme, but it is a little moment of extremities I enjoy seeing.  This photo of Angelika's and this drawing of mine are hanging in our bedroom at the moment. I had put these passages together in my mind long before I physically placed the pieces next to one another.



Thursday, January 22, 2015

New Dead Hare Radio Episode! - Harvey Tulcensky



Well, it's been a long long while, but I finally released a new podcast episode of the Dead Hare Radio Hour.  This one, episode # 44, features a conversation with Harvey Tulcensky recorded when I visited Harvey's studio in Manhattan last Spring.


Harvey's artwork for the past 10 years plus has consisted of a growing body of small moleskin sketchbooks, numbering well into the hundreds,  that he fills up with ballpoint pen drawings as if it were a metabolic process.  Within this corpus of sketchbooks are countless opportunities for creating discrete statements by corralling a selection of books into a composition .  Harvey hangs stacked arrangements of sketchbooks, streching their accordion pages out horizontally to create large, expressive wall reliefs.
A selection of books filled with ink applied with rubber stamps.

In our talk, Harvey tells of growing up in Detroit, making his way to NYC, via Vermont, living large as a ranch hand in Idaho, and how he arrived at the work he does today.


A stack of painted plywood diamond shapes from an early body of work.
One of two pieces exhibited in 2010 at the Center for Book Arts in NY.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Rob Swainston (and his students) at Garrison Art Center, opening Jan 24



Over a couple of Saturdays in December I attended a printmaking master class at the Garrison Art Center, led by Rob Swainston.  Rob is a Brooklyn based artist and printmaker who creates large scale, print-based installations - or "printstallations".  In addition to creating his own work, Rob runs a collaborative print studio called Prints of Darkness.

The class Rob presented focused on creating multicolored woodblock prints using Photoshop to manage the color separation then transferring those separations to multiple blocks for printing. 

GAC is hosting an exhibit of Rob's work, which is opening this Saturday, January 24.  Rob's show, Carry On, will be in the Center's main gallery and in the adjacent gallery, prints created by class attendees will be on exhibit. 
My fellow classmates; Barbara Smith Gioia, Michael Piotrowski, Hildreth Potts, Adolfo Silva-Sadder, William Stafford and Natalia Woodward, and I will show a sample of the prints we made in the class.

Both shows run through February 15th.

Below are a couple the prints I created:

Keel variation
Keel variation


Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Oh Christmas Thing 2014

Christmas Thing 2014, twigs, plastic ornaments

This year's Christmas Thing is small, measuring just over 12" tall, yet it carries a rugged elegance on those delicate legs.