“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 …
Omnibus
The sky, it is blue, and other Aha! Moments, ie: The Momentary Manifesto
Recently I was describing the complete and utter revolution I’ve experienced in my artistic practice, only to have the listener remark “but that sounds like what all artists do in the studioâ€. At that moment it became clear to me that perhaps I needed to develop my language skills… a bit. But I must say that on some level she is correct. Yes, I am doing what all artists do in the studio. But now I am doing it DIFFERENTLY then I was before.
The Mark on the Wall
“Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present year that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall.”
Darkness Visible
How many darks are there? Low ceilinged dark, watch your head dark, near to the wall dark, bump your shin dark, inside dark, outside dark? How deep is dark? Something perhaps more considered when black and white is your medium.
Not thinking of princesses
“I envy – but I’m not sure that I envy – those for whom a biography could be written, or who could write their own. In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them …
Show at Aljira opens this week!!
The summer has passed, but we are pretending still, and so ungloved we chafe our hands together to rub off morning’s chill. Now the time begins when lukewarm coffee keeps its steam, and garments discarded on entering give off a tangible, but fading warmth. Into this season of decay the hothouse sends its springtime offerings.
Aljira
“Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place” T.S. Eliot An exhibition of new work: The Hothouse Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art 591 Broad Street Newark, NJ 07102-4403 Tel: 973-622-1600 October 28, 2010-January 8, 2011 Reception: Thursday, November 18, 9pm
The Hothouse
New paintings – the flowers are online!
Any of you who know my work well will be a bit surprised, but probably not more than I am. Click on the image above to check out the work!
Also… New Exhibition…
The Hothouse of blooms will be on display at the end of October at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark NJ. (Oct 28th, 2010 – January 8th, 2011).
I will keep you posted on the details!
Matisse
Matisse condenses the air – the light is form, the dark is form. What one would pass through is solid while concrete things are but interrupted flickerings; chains of lines flattened onto fields of bright color.
Meditations on Landscape & The Infinite
“…at times the spirit…desires a view which is in certain ways restricted and confined… The reason is …the desire for the infinite, because in those circumstances the imagination goes to work instead of the eyesight, and fantasy takes the place of what is real.”