Art at work
Acquiescence & Mystery; Jonah
Grapple & Sanctify, Jacob
Parable and Absolute, Job;
Balaam; Submission and Revelation
Warrior with Memory
Veritas Vos LIberabit
Sticks
She Remembers
Several Good Ideas
Saltimbanque
Release with Bees
Redemption Cycle
Oh Jonah
Oh Jonah
Jack
Stream (detail)
Stream
Jack
King Charles
Bounty
Best of Show
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Samuel May in Pate de Verre
Samuel Joseph May was a Unitarian abolitionist minister in the 1800’s. Over the years I’ve been collecting stories of friendship throughout history and was very moved by May’s friendship with the revolutionary abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison; a friendship marked with … Continue reading
Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Work of Art?”
The Bravo channel has decided to put out there a television show of competing artists in the spirit of many so called “reality” TV shows. “Let’s have selected artists compete and the winner gets $100,000 and a solo show at … Continue reading
Manhattan vs. Manhattan
So over the past months I’ve had the opportunity to be in two different “Manhattans” in our fair country. I found myself asking several questions like, “What is a sense of place to an artist?” and “What is the artists … Continue reading
This Time It’s Personal
I look at things as analogies: landscapes, objects, and stories I read as symbols of the human experience and who we are as people. I was recently struck at the landscape found on my families farm in Kansas and what … Continue reading
Kienholz’s Wear and Tear
While in New York I was pleasantly surprised to run into an artist, Ed Kienholz that had a profound affect on me in undergraduate, and even more so in graduate school at Washington State University. I had an instructor Bob … Continue reading
Posted in Artists of Interest
Tagged assemblage, Ed Kienholz, found object art, life as art, Roxy's, wear and tear
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New York Observed
On my recent trip to New York I took time in a diner off of Madison avenue on the upper west side to jot down some observations I had made while roaming around the city’s streets. Here they are for … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting....
Tagged facts about New York, New York art, Observations in New York
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Bad Things Happen to Good Art
Well, just picked up my art that was out at the Newport Visual Arts Center for the month of June. On the day in late May that I went to deliver the work the rain was coming sideways off the … Continue reading
? – Well, I liked it…
At the exhibition “Both, And” that I had in the month of June at the Newport Visual Art Center there was a small visitor registry. You could write the date, your name, the city you were from and a comment. … Continue reading →