I’m looking forward to a time when cafe life can resume. When it comes to writing, the atmosphere of a cafe combined with noise canceling headphones really helps me level up.
I am having a hard time reading, and watching films. The concentration isn’t there; the ability to detach from reality and enjoy the narrative.
Here is another Spotify playlist!
Enjoy.
These works of art found new homes in 2020!
Day of the Lords, 2020
Year One, 2020
Beyond Yet, 2020
Back to Front, 2019
BLM, 2016
Joy & Shit, 2012
Unfriended, 2011
Joy Shit, 2010, 1 of 2
Joy Shit, 2010, 2 of 2
Joy Shit, 2010
It Takes Balls, 2009, 1 of 3
It Takes Balls, 2009, 2 of 3
It Takes Balls, 2009, 3 of 3
I sold these two paintings a long time ago, back in 2006. But for some reason, I didn’t take a photo of the black, brown and red one. Didn’t matter, though, because the pair was hanging in the home of a good friend, and we met regularly for coffee and bull sessions. Then the pieces were moved to my friend’s Chicago pad. And then my friend moved to Illinois. For some reason, I thought the pieces were handed off to his daughter who lives on the East Coast. In short, I thought they were long gone. Thank you, Bill, for the photos!
These smaller pieces are part of the Lamb Series. I think that series has meant different things for different people, but for me that series captured the frame of mind I was in after we invaded Iraq in 2003.
Been a while since I posted a playlist. So here goes…
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This playlist is a companion to my 80s coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face. Stuart Page is a protagonist obsessed with 80s New Wave and Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Divison. All of the tunes and bands in the playlist get a mention in the novel. The novel is available on Amazon.
Another painting for The Sublime series! My mind is still preoccupied with future worlds, future travel, future physics, future technology. I am pleased with this new painting. It’s on Stonehenge paper (30”x22”).
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Finding Away, 2020
acrylic, spray, gouahce & colored pencil on Stonehenge paper
30”x22”
This is the final installment of this series of blog posts. More weirdness from the early days. All of this work was created before or around 2003.
This was made on the back of a tablet of paper. Roughly 7”x5” or "9”x6” as I recall. And it sold, at a show at Mr. Henry’s, a restaurant in the Eastern Market locale of Washington, D.C. Still love that place!
This early piece was acrylic and oil paintstick on a framed bulletin board (functional art!). This one also sold at a show in D.C. (at the old Eastern Market exhibition space), but I never did find out who purchased it. I hope it is still out there somewhere in the world!
This two-panel piece measured 80”x30”. It was part of a two-person show, with Jayme Theis, at Otherwise Art Gallery, curated by Alison Alfredson, in Old Town Lansing in 2003. It was my first show of paintings.
This painting was on masonite, 36”x48”. It was also part of that early Otherwise show. I think the painting was called Popular Disposition. Copy & Paste was just too obvious, haha. I was very fond of this painting.
In my mind, this is perhaps one of the strangest paintings I have ever made. It was in a show at Spiderhouse Gallery in Old Town Lansing in 2003, I think. There is no doubt in my mind that I painted over this one, haha.
I really do wish I had kept one of these. I showed a series of similar works at the Grand Blast Art Show in 2001. This show was a big group show in a white-washed warehouse space in Downtown Lansing, which Cassie Brogan and her husband organized. It had everything, including a big city feel.
These works feel very fresh to me, even though they no longer exist. What was I thinking? And why?
There were about five of them, including a blond-haired Washington.
