More beautiful geometric things for you today - this time courtesy of Teresa Robinson's newest venture, Stone & Honey. Teresa combines crisp geometric design with the rough-hewn beauty of natural Brazilian agate to produce bold yet delicate ethereal pieces. Want!
Thank you to everyone who braved the rain and came out to my show on Saturday! My apologies for the venue. Beyond that, I was happy with my showing, and extra appreciative of the people who came out to see it. Thanks again.
If you're in the NYC metro area and haven't had enough of me already, a few of my smaller drawings are on display at LITM's Little Wonders group show which runs through January 3, 2010.
These will probably be the last shows I do for a while, as I try to refocus and work on some new drawings. Thanks for your continued support and readership. Happy New Year!
Lucian Freud Girl With a Kitten 1947 Oil on canvas 15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (39.5 x 29.5 cm)
"At the outset there is always a mystery. We cannot know what a painter brought to painting or what drew him to it. Yet everything he paints throughout his life adds to our understanding of one or both these things. When his last picture is painted in that predestined way in which, one cannot help believing, an artist's work, and therefore art, unfolds when the last predestined picture is finished and the trajectory of his meaning completes its curve then we know all there is to be known about these first riddles and understand what can't be known, what remains unknowable about the sources and the resources of a painter..." (more at artarchive.com)
Here's a preview of the album artwork I recently completed for Like Trains & Taxis. There's a live person trying to breathe in there! Tales From A Revolving Door is due out early 2010.
Band t-shirts seemingly went out of style in high school, after we all got over our punk/hardcore/emo/whatever phases. My collection is long gone (somewhat regrettably), and I think it's time to bring some new and relevant band t-shirts back into the mix. Here is my wish list:
I am featured in an interview today on Christina Alessi's blog as part of her Artist Feature Friday series! You can read the interview here. Don't forget to check out her cool fiber arts, illustration, photography and music sections while you're there. Thanks Christina!
Nov 9, 2009
Here are the two pieces that I showed in a group show at Paul Vincent Gallery this past weekend:
I finally get to share the artwork I recently completed for the Like Trains & Taxis Charlie EP. I particularly enjoyed doing the hand-lettering. The EP is out now and available for purchase here!
And here are the corresponding poster and drop cards with track listing:
I just completed the artwork for their album, and am currently working on some things that will go with it. I'll post about it when it's done!
I'm working on some new things that I'm excited to share more fully with you soon. I just wish I had a better camera, gah. Here are some "sneak peek" photos for now. I'm working on larger paper than usual (18 x 24) which is both exciting and scary!
I was pretty into First Friday in Philly two weeks ago. My favorite show was Ben Volta and Hadieh Shafie at Pentimenti on 2nd Street. Impressive online but more awe-inspiring in person, I was completely sucked in by their presence.
I also fell in love with a lamp made by one very talented 12th grader. It reminded me of those scary spore things that you see Photoshopped on fingernails and nipples and such... I tried to Google it to no avail. Who knows what I'm talking about??
Ahh, hibernation is finally over. There go the last few days of summer. Sorry for disappearing for a while, I've been caught up in it all. I'm excited for my favorite season - fall always makes me feel crazy. I'm working on a few design and art projects too, excited to share them soon.
"More a work in experimental Dadaism than a film, Le Retour à la Raison was the first film to be made by the celebrated surrealist artist, Man Ray...The film is very short (three minutes in length) but includes some astonishing and evocative images. The early segments of the film iillustrates a technique which Man Ray pioneered in static photography, the rayograph (or photogramme). Here, an object is placed between a light source and photo-sensitive film, in contrast to traditional photography where photographic film captures light reflected off an object. For Le Retour à la Raison, Man Ray sought to extend the rayograph technique to a moving image. He sprinkled salt and pepper on one piece of film, pins on another, illuminated the film for a few seconds, then developed the film." - filmsdefrance.com
"Man Ray (August 27, 1890–November 18, 1976) was an American Dada and Surrealist artist. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Man Ray showed evidence of being artistically and mechanically inclined from childhood. After graduating from Boys' High School in 1908, he was offered a scholarship to study architecture but chose to pursue a career as an artist instead. In 1911, the Radnitzky family changed their surname to Ray, a name selected by Man Ray's younger brother Sam, in reaction to the ethnic discrimination and anti-semitism prevalent at that time. Emmanuel, who was called "Manny" as a nickname, thereafter used the single name Man Ray." - wikipedia.org