by admin | Feb 21, 2011 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Digital art, Identity-based art, News and Events
A very recent digital photographic diptych, “Queer, Fag, Idiot (Self-portrait)’ went on view in the 3rd Annual International Juried Exhibition, “Inner & Outer Landscape: Contemporary Self-Portraiture & Representation’ at the A.D....
by admin | Feb 19, 2011 | Digital art, Installation Art, News and Events
In “Picnic in the Rain”, you are the vitality of the work. Your presence activates the work just as the work gives you whatever feelings or perceptions you take away from it. ZEN On it’s most basic level, Picnic in the Rain is an environment for contemplation...
by admin | Feb 19, 2011 | Digital art, Landscape Art
Moment by moment, glimpse after glimpse… we are constantly being given opportunities to see the world as it is, in all its depth and simplicity. These photographs capture those times when the grandness of the world is punctuated by moments of stillness and...
by admin | May 19, 2010 | Digital art, Landscape Art
Any landscape is a metaphor for the human mind and condition. It is full of textures, colors, hills and uncertain depth that are a map of how our minds are. The reality we see is just that, only something seen as perception but not anything that can be characterized...
by admin | Apr 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
This ‘marker’ represents both the psychological/emotional break I took for several years and the lapse in any serious effort with my work. From the years 1998 through to 2003, I took a long break from producing any serious artwork. THough I continued to...
by admin | Feb 24, 2010 | Assemblage, Collage, Neo-Expressionism, Painting, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
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...
by admin | Jan 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
About the time I was really understanding the technical requirements of photorealism, I was drawn more and more to what was new and exciting in New York. The friends and acquaintances I had at the time, some of whom are still my big supporters and friends, were living...
by admin | Dec 31, 2009 | Thinking about Art - Out Loud
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...
by admin | Dec 13, 2009 | Painting, Uncategorized
The works assembled here represent many of the floral pieces that I did over the years, both on paper and on canvas. Flowers were, and are, one of the loves of my life. They are inspirational in their ability to fight out into the open under the most awful of...