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Review: A Working History of Things to Come
"Unwound", oil on Fiberboard
Works at Oranje: Contemporary art & music event
My three latest butterfly works, After Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis will be on display this Saturday, October 19th from 8pm to 2am at Oranje, a contemporary art & music event. Wug Laku of Wug Laku’s Studio and Garage is representing my work at booth 17.
Friedrich: Traveling Exhibit part II
More thoughts on works by Caspar David Friedrich from the Hermitage.
The Dreamer sits on a window ledge of a ruin. He is not inside the ruin nor is he outside the ruin. Inside the ruin are dead trees, while outside life thrives. The dreamer looks sideways, neither out of the ruin nor into the ruin. Is this not true of a dreamer, of someone who lives half in the metaphysical realm and half in the physical world. It is a delicate balance.
Morning in the Mountains, completed in 1821-1823, speaks of a misty, grand expanse.
Paintings at Indianapolis Visual Fringe 2009
The Goldfinch
The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands is designed with many protruding panels giving a room more wall space then it might otherwise have. While walking around the museum, I looked with anticipation around each protruding panel for the works of art that would be displayed in these alcoves. On one of the walls, I found The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius. This small, unassuming work would not usua...
Holiday Group Show: Brown Paper Packages
New Paintings of Shells
One thing that the flowers lack is the kind of texture that I enjoy bringing out in a painting. Therefore, I have been investigating other objects that have textures similar to bones. I thought about other objects that served to strengthen and protect like bones. I have posted two paintings of shells. Egg shell is a painting of a broken egg shell. The broken pieces are scattered in a way reminiscent of a stepping stone path way that leads the eye to the larger egg shell pieces. This is one of those paintings where the idea comes to you and is not forced. Seashells on Blue inco...
Foreshadowing: A study of Asian Lillies
As I leave behind the subject of bones, I am investigating several other venues of interest. One idea is not new, but a continuation of the flower series that I keep coming back to. I have posted two new works Foreshadowing and Three Stages. In Foreshadowing, instead of using the animation to capture the flowers in movement, I use the animation to capture the life stages of the flower. The flower is pictured clearly in the bud stage of life and becomes fainter toward the wilting phase. Three Stages has three different flowers that each represents a point in the flower’s development.<...
‘Perfected Communion’ is a perfect night
This was the premier of this painting series, and I was very excited about the event. I met Wug while I served on the planning committee for Elegant Funk, a group art show by members of Smaller Indiana in August. Last Friday (November 7th), as part of Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association (IDADA) First Friday gallery tour, wUG LAKU’S STUDIO & gARAGE hosted the opening of my exhibit, Action, Unification: A Perfected Communion.
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