Celebrating Unlearning
My first real face-to-face interaction with the work of Cy Twombly was in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Not Here/There
The works in this latest series bring focus to one of the key aspects of being human that I find compelling - the idea that we, as people, spend a lifetime working on our identity and yet it, like our bodies, is completely false. It is impermanent at its root,...
Green outsider alternative art – one possibility.
In pondering the burgeoning consequences of man-made combustion on the climate, it's become increasingly apparent to me that we do really need to start taking into account everything we do and how it influences our air, land and water quality. The naysayers may want...
What the world needs now is…
...no more bullshit. That's the simple truth. And whether it's in architecture, politics or art, it's about time that everyone start calling a spade, a spade. There's a great blog article I was reading that brought this concept and it's encumbant realities to...
1990’s expressionism
My full-fledged work with Neo-expressionism began and ended in the 1990's. My imagery moved away from landscape as the primary subject and it became more of a ground for images of people, emotions, ideas and reactions. I was completely enthralled by the idea of...
Depression sets in (Less is More)
What does it mean to be an artist? and then what does it mean to be an artist in the 21st century in the US? I've written here before how Duchamp determined what an artist was through a leap of complete conviction and belief and that concept continues to operate for...