Kind Rousseau you who hear us now We greet you Delauney his wife Monsieur Queval and I Let our luggage pass freely through the customs-house of heaven And we’ll bring you brushes and colors and canvases So that you may devote your holy leisure in the true light To painting as you once did my …
Omnibus
Star Ledger review of The Words
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Can books be sexy again?
“Can books be sexy again?” Danny Brody reviews The Words for the Examiner: “Marcel Proust famously had his madeleines – little cookies that he would nibble on to jar his memory. They would help him to conjure up images and thoughts for his monumental literary works. Painter Jen Mazza uses books as touchstones for her …
Ready for September 5th
Installing The Words
Flowers for you…
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery presents: Group Show “Flowers For You” and Alex Spaulding’s Solo Exhibition “White Nights” From June 27, 2012 – August 12, 2012, Opening: Wednesday, June 27 6-8 “Flowers For You” The artists within this new exhibit dig deep and bundle up flowers that perplex and frighten, soothe and engage, invigorate and astonish. Stoyanov’s …
Postcard from Florence
For a tourist, Italy can seem as overexposed as a sunset; every view recognized in postcard after postcard. Writing seems as redundant as any visual document. Others have described these narrow streets, these views, the moods, the weather, as well or better. The Brownings lived here amongst others, but perhaps more familiar to me is …
Some new work…
Some new work in the Object Removed (click on image to see the ongoing series)
Mandelstam’s finches
Folks in the star-bks on Park Ave must have thought it strange when I stopped to pick up this sad little bird. It twitched once in my hand then expired. New work…Fur Elise a series of dedications and (mis)appropriations to see more click here
Divertimento
“Silence? Can you hear the forest? The sound, the murmuring all the time. It’s like the sea. Just like the sea. It’s the fossil sound of the universe. It’s the sound of the origins. The forest and the sea mixed together. That’s what painting is. Don’t you think? ” (1) One of Honore de Balzac’s most …