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A late add, but an exciting opportunity– a show of drawings and paintings for the month of September at Dish. The opening is Friday, September 3rd and will feature drink and appetizer specials for all the art lovers. Should be a fun way to start a Friday. Preview images soon…
The opening was great– thanks to Mary Florence, Trés Chouette, and DJ Brad for making it a grand night. The show will be up until June. Make sure to go by 2121 Shamrock to check it out!
Here’s a teaser of some new work to be featured in the May one-man at Trés Chouette, a show called “Order of Solitaries”. The show opens May 7th at 6 pm. (Trés Chouette is located at 2119 Shamrock Dr. in Charlotte, right next to Foskoskie’s… these openings are a lot of fun.)
The work here is mainly “one on one”, solitary subject portrait and figurative work, hence the “solitaries”. The show title is a reference to a phrase used by Thomas Aquinas, so its a bit out of context. I felt, though, that what I’m showing is a team of individuals that, in end, are meant to express a range of emotions and psychologies to the viewer.
There will be about a dozen new paintings and about twenty new drawings. Good prices on original art. Thanks to everyone who made the first show in July of ‘09 a big hit. Here’s to the newness!
Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the show, the opening, etc.
The web is a beautiful thing. Bits and pieces of one’s creative past, for good or for ill, can resurface out of the ether and provide amusement and a sense of perspective.
As it turns out, over 80 years worth of student newspapers from Davidson College, my alma matter, have been saved in an online pdf archive, located here. So, unknowingly, a bit of my youth has been preserved here– strange little comics, from my Junior year, called Agitprop. The name is a perverse nod to the art of propaganda from the Communist era, and the pieces ran for several months in a stretch in late 1989.
Agitprop is a window into my-then mindframe. Quirky, a bit angsty, and fascinated by possibilities.
December 4th through the end of the year, Tres Chouette will be hosting an assortment of artists’ work just in time for the holidays. Take home some original art!
Still of few pieces of mine hanging there, but (happy to report) the fall show made a big dent in inventory. Thanks to all who made the end of the year strong!
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Recently my friend and colleague Chuck Lampe was cleaning a family antique mirror and discovered a sizable piece of history within the backing — several pages of the March 25, 1963 edition of the Peoria (Illinois) Journal Star. In addition to being a great “slice of life” document (from a day when nothing too earth shattering was going on, despite the volatile nature of that era,) the newspaper featured an uncredited report on the dangers of rock n’ roll music on the already susceptible misanthropic youth. (more…)
September 4th Gallery Crawl Event - http://eepurl.com/djAY
Nothing like a clean studio to freshen the perspective. Also on the personal agenda: cleaning the palette, refreshing the paints.
Happy to return to the Thursday schedule of morning life drawing after a few weeks absence. Amazing what a bit of time– both good and ill– can do to the seeing process.
Also taking the opportunity to work in new mediums– straight conté in shades of sanguine, which I think will open doors of value judgements both in painting and draftsmanship.
Surprises were many during last week’s trip to the coast of New Jersey. The central theme of this expedition, as it turns out, was “reality vs. expectation”; I went to New Jersey anticipating the clichés, (dirty cities, dirty oceans, decay, rude people) and found almost the reverse to be true. Asbury Park is a town in a visible, albeit gradual, state of recovery from its troubling post-1970 decline. (more…)
