I’m in the New Pond Farm Invitational Art Show
If you are local go see this show this week! New Pond Farm is a great cause.
Art
Our Daughter’s Ceramic Capstone Show at the Museum
Yesterday we got to see our youngest daughter’s senior capstone ceramics in the college’s museum.
Paint the Bird (Book Review)
It is not a fun read, and is R-rated in places, but the metaphors ring poetic on the rebound. The main characters are a disillusioned aging African American minister who who picks up an artist at a bar whose HIV positive gay son has just died.
Don’t Block Your Unique Expression (Martha Graham quote)
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is…
Tony Alain (Featured Artist)
I thought I’d introduce you to Tony Alain’s work, since I’ll be taking his workshop at the International Pastel Convention this June. He is one of several instructors I have signed up for there in Albuquerque
Featured Artist: Mavis Pusey
Not only do I love her geometric shapes, but so much of her abstraction is inspired by the construction scenes in New York City, which I also spent so many years among, that I resonate with her subject matter, and feel a special affinity for her work.
Two New Pottery Pieces Out of the Kiln
The spherical yellow rosette piece above is the perfect height for a centerpiece, and I found it interesting that the same rosette pattern showed up on…
Nexus (New Large Mixed Media Painting)
The new highly textural painting of mine is quite large (28″x40″) and is done in mixed media: pastel, acrylic, and ink.
My Painting was in the Roux & Cyr Gallery in Portland
My painting Field of Dreams was honored to be in Portland’s commercial gallery for the month of April.
Aggregate (New Large Abstract Conceptualist Painting in Pastel)
An abstract conceptualist work, “aggregate” means a gathering, a collection, a whole formed of disparate elements, a loosely compacted mass of fragments, unity among separate units, to form or group into a cluster, a sum total, an overall composite…
Two New Sgraffito Pottery Plates out of the Kiln
Check out my new plates, and know it is not too early to put your commissions in for getting my unique pottery for Christmas presents…
Adventures in Abstraction Two Day Workshop I Taught for CPS
Check out these photos from my exercise intensive workshop that I gave last weekend for the Connecticut Pastel Society on the Adventures of Abstraction. It was a privilege to be with these students!
Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925 (Book Review)
This coffee table book is the best on the subject that I have seen. The charts and the color photos are great…
Featured Artist: Janet Schwartz
In this post you can see some of her work, as well as a few photos from the demo she did for us last Saturday.
I’m in this Zahn Gallery Show at the Middlesex Hospital
The Zahn Gallery at the Middlesex Hospital here in Connecticut has mounted a beautiful pastel show and I am proud that my painting Starlit Lagoon is included in it.