work in progress

Sorry about the picture quality but I am still trying to struggle through bad lighting and a camera designed for tourists on a cheap vacation. Please try and see the real thing in March and maybe by then I can sort out my documentation woes.

Special Request Honored

One of the regular readers of this blog has requested a couple shots of me working. So, here it is! The painting is one of the 'Natures Abstracts' for this years show... final touches being added. If you would like to be up to date with my posts please subscribe on the right hand side of the blog header. Many more posts to follow in the upcoming months as I am now in full swing for this season. Thanks for reading!

further abstract

Here is a smaller painting for this years 'abstracts of nature' series. Actually, this is really more of a prototype. I doubt this one will make the final selection but it has served its purpose well in opening the door for what will be a series of six 18x24 inch oil on linens. The six to be featured in the show will be very frenetic and somewhat chaotic in their foundations but they will also feature a placid almost serene pastel grey background to smooth out its naturaly shattered appearence. I am very excited about these upcoming paintings and I will post one for you soon. I have the first three going nicely now and once I have mounted the linen to artist panel then the next three will be up.






"Looking up at Trees"
Oil on Linen study 18x24
2009

views from the upper atmosphere 2

This painting ""View of the Northern Settletments in Winter as seen from the Upper Atmosphere." is now just about finished. I would like to show you a full scale shot of the painting but my lighting situation is absolutly abbhorant at the moment so another detail will have to suffice.
This one being essentialy done, I have started another abstract landscape as seen from above. More on that soon.




"View of the Northern Settletments in Winter as seen from the Upper Atmosphere."
Oil on canvas detail 2009

views from the upper atmosphere 1

Here is a sneak peek of an abstract I am working on for my upcoming show at the 2/20: New Abstracts. This painting is maybe three quarters done and this shot is just one little part of it. The photo does not do justice to the quality of the surface in this piece. Detail:




"View of the Northern Settletments in Winter as seen from the Upper Atmosphere."
Oil on canvas detail 2009

J train in Bushwick

"J Train on Bushwick Elevated"
07-09 pen on linen


We live right near a great workhorse and a symbol of American grit and ingenuity. Subways being much more challenging from the engineering perspective, an elevated train offers an awe inspiring view out in the open of what of is possible with enormous fast moving objects. It is at once loud, graceful, industrial and decaying and in higher demand for its services than ever. The J,M and rarely seen Z lines run right along Broadway in Bushwick.

Its been an unusually wet and rainy summer. I don't mind that at all of course because I prefer it to be raining when its really humid rather than just hot and sticky. So in this little drawing we have a view of the great lumbering train and the vertical assent of the rain clouds in the sky. This is only a detail of this drawing as the sky contiues off screen, the heavy clouds appering at odds with one another in a biomorphic display.

I am hammering out a couple of ideas for my upcoming show at the 2/20. At the moment "Atmospheres and Erosion's: new abstracts" is winning out. This will be a much leaner show than last year with a total of probably ten to twelve oil paintings.

our new hood

we are to have barbaques again under the canapy of trees soon just like back in go-let-a. Feeling brave? Come visit us in Bushwick Brooklyn.