I continue to paint from nature exploring the agon between representation and abstraction that I find as the substance of 20th century art, and so compelling.
Favorite media: Oil Paint; charcoal, pastel, ink, pencil
love art that challenges expectations and can make a confident statement. At one time or other drawn to many post 19th century painters; always come back to Picasso, Goya, Hudson River School, Abstract Expressionists; Avery, Dove, Ryder; Impressonists; Post Impressionists.
Recent conversation with Chuck Close illuminated for me a deep connection between abstract principals and representation; especially perception.
BA: SUNY Stony Brook, 1985// Method Acting with William Hickey @ HB Studio, Greenwich Village, '82-'88// NYU Films, off-off-B'way plays//Museum of Modern Art; books and posters; 1987//Graduate painting, art history SUNY New Paltz, '90-'92//self-taught finger-picking blues guitar afficionato//carpenter// set design-construction: Circle Rep Lab, 1994; Residency @ Vermont Studio Center, 1996; worked with Paul Rotterdam/Wolf Kahn// exhibited many group shows in Soho, solo upstate NY; commercial and non-profit spaces, including recent Sullivan Co. Museum and Safe Harbors Project, Newburgh.
Recently exhibited in Chelsea, where I serve assisting the director of the gallery; free-lance art-handling in Chelsea and mid-town. Upcoming solo exhibit: Kingston, NY; Sept. 2003
Thu 25 Mar, 2004 07:18 pm - Haven't been up there yet; but today I surveyed 57th Street. What is anxiously driving me to the Whitney is what I read in the review. Kimmelman writes (NYTimes, March 12): "... But... (view)
Mon 22 Mar, 2004 09:51 pm - I like this one from Max Protech, the famed NY art dealer "...Most businesses research a market and work toward supplying an existing demand. It's just the opposite in dealing art.... (view)
Mon 22 Mar, 2004 09:28 pm - copying another work of art is a valuable learning device and helps the artist absorb lessons that cannot be realized any other way; just about every great artist "re-created" from... (view)
Mon 22 Mar, 2004 08:55 pm - Hi Osso, thanks; it's sooo nice to check back in here again and read up on all you guys. Very glad you've all been at it during my "off-line" period.
That's a cute... (view)
Mon 22 Mar, 2004 08:44 pm - Hi JL; it is great to have a peek and see that you are here and that there are still some vibrant artistic discussions going on. (I recognized that black cat w/green eyes right away!) (view)
Mon 22 Mar, 2004 08:38 pm - This is a sticky multi-leveled concept. I studied with a guy who believed that the positon as artist in itself is political. I see it this way in this day and age in America.
As far as the... (view)
Mon 22 Mar, 2004 08:12 pm - Hey Joanne; yes I have been computerless for a long time, and quite busy, still in the business although not working for any galleries now, but I exhibited in a few this past year and am an active... (view)
Sun 21 Mar, 2004 10:27 pm - art is the use of one's creative intelligence, some heartfelt emotive experience, and the work involved in transmuting some media beyond its original state into a new form so that a complete... (view)
Sun 21 Mar, 2004 10:09 pm - "Art is a constructive act...The artist is the person who puts the world together after everyone else has let it go to pieces.."
"..civilization lives by speech/// expressive arts... (view)
