Category: Work

Two Day A-Work

3/16/2024

"2024 No.3" (state 07), oil on canvas, 42¼x36 inches

"2024 No.01" (state 21), oil on canvas, 53x47⅛inches

Drawing 03·13·2024, pencil on paper, 20x16 inches

"2024 No.4" (state 01), oil on canvas, 52x41 inches

Abstract Visions

3/15/2023

"Anew" (2023 No.4, state 02), oil on canvas, 47¼x60½ inches

"Compunction" (2022 No.12, state 08), oil on canvas, 57¾x67⅛ inches

The painting "Anew" is changing fast. The painting "Compunction" is complete, shown here reworked for an upcoming exhibition, now on stretcher bars. It will be shown at Silvermine Galleries in New Canaan, Connecticut. I'll keep you informed on this upcoming exhibit, "Abstract Visions," which opens April 1st.

Snaking Along Toward Getting Right

11/30/2022

"Reclamation" (2022 No.11, state 05), oil on canvas. 51x56⅛ inches

This painting is going, going... I am optimistic this painting will represent me more than any painting I have done before. If anything, this is me true-working. I am throwing out every distraction, dispelling all things that do not make sense to it being right for me.

Truckin' On

11/15/2022

Drawing 11·15·2022 No.1, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

Drawing 11·15·2022 No.2, pencil on paper, 20x16 inches

Moving Somewhere True

9/23/2022

Drawing 09·22·2022, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

"Shape of Things to Come" (2022 No.8, state 3), oil on canvas, 53x55 inches

I feel good. I am going somewhere true. Will that place be one of total success? No way! I go a direction, but every direction has its imperfections. I do that which I must. Yesterday's work, show here (as always), speaks volumes. The volumes it speaks is not only in form and depth (Art Principle stuff), but it exhibits my work not as an ethic, but as a desire to be felicitously moving along.

Accepting Evolution

9/9/2022

"Evolution No.8" (2022 No.8, state 1), oil on canvas, 48x47 inches

"Camouflage" (2022 No.6, state 13), oil on canvas, 41¼x58½ inches

Evolution occurring in a new painting. There was also a small tweak to "Camouflage" (2022 No.6). That was yesterday. Also I began a new drawing (come back tomorrow to its completed state).

Tiresome Proofs?

9/3/2022

Drawing 09·01·2022, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

I think this drawing is a good one. Then I went back and made another drawing. Right now, that second drawing resides on my drawing board. It is not reproduced here. That newer drawing feels forced, tiresome, like I did it already. You will see it in my next Blog Post.

I continue to learn about myself. I beat good ideas till they are dead to me. They become tiresome. I need to prove I can do this thing, i.e., Art Making. Returning to revisit a good idea has a way of leading to tiresome drawings, ones that look too tired to prove anything.

Work Needed to Exit Fool's Errand

7/2/2022

"Crevice" (2022 No.7, state 6), oil on canvas, 41⅜x57½ inches

Not fooling myself has created a lot of present and future work. This is NOT going to be easy! "Crevice" has become a battleground.

The Brain as a Muscle

3/27/2022

"Silence, Exile, and Cunning" (2022 No.1, state 13), oil on canvas, 48x57 inches, {"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning." - James Joyce (1882-1941), "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916)}

Many years ago, my first mentor in drawing and painting, Seymour Leichman, said to me, "The Brain is a muscle. Work on your drawing, work on your painting, your work will make your brain stronger, more able to do the most difficult tasks you ask of it." It is happening. My brain has become more able to sustain the difficult work of making complete works of art. This is particularly obvious in my last two paintings, "Silence, Exile, and Cunning” and "Four Definitions”.