Wow! I did not realize that this blog was still even in existence! Ha ha! Yes! I'm still here, making art...two-sided art even! I apologize for not keeping this blog updated, but you can always catch up at my website or instagram. Here is a photo of two stretchers that I just completed (actually I still need to tweak them a bit)
They will be a pert of a show that I am curating for summer of 2019 at Waterfall Arts in Belfast, titled "Gallery Closed". My piece will consist of two free standing walls, one in front of the other, in which these two stretchers will hang as completed paintings. You will be able to open each painting like a door and pass through each wall. On the floor after passing through both walls will be a segmented figure representing the dismembered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This will not be the first time that I have represented a slain journalist in my art. in 2009 I created a series of drawings titled "Letter From the Grave" and you can read about that and see images here. Though I do not know how I will represent Khashoggi I would like to take inspiration from the work of Antony Gormley, who I am coming around to really admire in terms of the haunting feel that his geometric figures create for me. So I think that is all I will say for now, so please stay tuned and I will try my best to post a bit more often!
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So, since about November or December of 2020, I've gotten back in to ink again. It kind of started out more as an exploration of paper, that paper being rice paper, which traditionally is painted or drawn on with ink. But I had originally started using ink back in the 90s, not necessarily on rice paper, and eventually drifted away from that to get heavy in to gouache. I used 100% cotton watercolor paper back then and also used watercolor paint. At some point I had bought a roll and pad of rice paper, thinking that I should see what that was like to work with that, since I was so big into Sumi ink. I dabled a bit, but never really took to it. At the time I preferred the smooth sturdy surface of hot press watercolor sheets.

Wow! I did not realize that this blog was still even in existence! Ha ha! Yes! I'm still here, making art...two-sided art even! I apologize for not keeping this blog updated, but you can always catch up at my website or instagram. Here is a photo of two stretchers that I just completed (actually I still need to tweak them a bit)

They will be a pert of a show that I am curating for summer of 2019 at Waterfall Arts in Belfast, titled "Gallery Closed".

Wow! It's been three years since I've blogged! Anyway, I'm still here making art...here's a picture of one of my recent window installations "Call Me"....actually, my first window installation! I was originally hoping to create this installation for a window at Port City Music Hall or SPACE Gallery, but chanced across The Engine's new digs in Biddeford, Maine and as they were so accommodating and available, I decided to just go for it! The red and white clothing was first exhibited as a part of
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