Golden Quiver, 12" by 9", 2011
Butterflies are highly affected by the sun. On a cloudy day, they will sit in their cage with their wings closed and practically hibernate...
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Patterns in Flight: Artist Talk
This Friday I will give a presentation about my Patterns in Flight series that is currently on display at Asbury University...
Patterns in Flight show at Asbury University
My alma mater, Asbury University (formerly Asbury College) has asked me to show my butterfly series, Patterns in Flight. The show will be on view from January 15 until March 25...
Patterns in Flight encore reception
If you were unable to make it in August, you have another chance to view the Patterns in Flight butterfly paintings art show. This Friday the butterfly series, Patterns in Flight, wil
Butterfly paintings to be public art at Indianapolis Arts Council new offices
This May, the Arts Council of Indianapolis is moving offices from the Guaranty Building at 20 N.
Preview: Approaches to Abstraction
The title of the show, Approaches to Abstraction, describes the variety of the pieces in Dave Voelpel’s show. The media of the pieces range from acrylics, oil, watercolor, collage, and
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...
May shows: Eye Music, Spring, and Yarn Burners
First Friday for May is quickly approaching and there are several places around town that my art work can be found. I have one piece each in three group shows.
Wug Laku is hosting his retrospective show Eye Music in hi
Authenticity or Accuracy
There is a thread of thought that scoffs images, stories, and other communications which tell a story in a historically inaccurate way. Those who follow this thought pattern would tear apart Pieter Brueghel II’s Census at Bethlehem completed in 1605...
Variations on a Theme Part 2
While walking through the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the painting, Jerusalem (Golgatha, Consummatum Est, Crucifixion) by Jean-Léon Gérôme caught my eye. It did not catch my eye because of the style, but due to the treatment of the subject. This is an interesting painting because it is the classical crucifixion theme redone in a way that I have not seen before. The cro