Year End Show for my High School Abstract Art Class
I love these kids, and am very glad for the opportunity to be a part of their lives. I’ll miss those graduating!
Abstract Art
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.
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.
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…
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…
Spring is Coming (New Abstract Conceptualist Painting in Pastel)
Things are beginning to sprout, the air is milder, the light more diffused, the birds with their feathers and song are returning, and soon there will be peepers. How to capture all this joy and hope and relief and refreshment and rebirth?
A Few Spaces Left in My Pastel Adventures in Abstraction Workshop
I’m teaching a two day workshop for the Connecticut Pastel Society titled Adventures in Abstraction in Southington, Connecticut on April 13th and 14th.
Conundrum (New Abstract Conceptualist Painting in Pastel)
We’ve all experienced this. We are buzzing along just fine, and then just before a fork in the road, we get all confused and flummoxed about which way to go, and nothing seems clear, and we’ve got to decide, but there so much conflicting stuff going on, and… That’s what I painted in this new abstract conceptualist piece called Conundrum.
I’m in this “Blue” Show in the Guilford Library
My painting July, shown above, is in a show “Blue,” put on by the Guilford Arts League, at the Guilford library, on the Guilford green in Connecticut.
Overcoming White Supremacy (New Abstract Painting in Pastel)
Since “people of color” is a preferred reference, I opted for a range of color, from muted to more intense, to represent diversity instead of choosing to merely depict a range of skin tone.
Collage Elements (Mark Making #4)
Continuing in the mark making series, I will now explore collage as elements of mark making.
Making Found Object Brushes (Mark Making #3)
For my third in this mark making series I am going to try to create unique marks with handmade brushes.
Field of Dreams (New Abstract Landscape in Pastel)
On a really frigid day last week I felt compelled to paint spring. This is the resulting abstract landscape, which I aptly titled Field of Dreams.
Sinew (New Abstract Painting in Pastel)
This painting is another in my newer series of unseen bodily mysteries objectified.
Testosterone (New Abstract Painting in Pastel)
The idea here is that I needed an example of more provocative abstract work in my powerpoint on abstraction.