These are the two paintings that were in the Diner, Dives and Drive-Ins exhibition at Buckham Gallery in 2024.
acrylic, gouache & colored pencil on canvas, 36”x36”, price includes shipping
Buckham Gallery’s annual fundraiser, Build Your Own Collection, is right around the corner. Only eight days away! There will be a lot of great affordable original artwork. Head to Buckham Gallery’s website, here, and get your tickets today. Join us on Friday, March 28th, and start building, or add to, your personal art collection. It’s a great way to support an amazing gallery that has been programming cutting edge, contemporary artwork in Downtown Flint for over forty years. I’ll be featuring the paintings posted below.
What If Our Minds the Worm
Mother & Son, 2024
No Escape (Intrusive Thoughts), 2024
Your Silent Face and Phil’s Siren Song are different books couched in the same setting with overlapping characters, however the narrators are focused on different issues. In the first clip, narrator of YSF, Stuart Page, relates a violent incident he witnessed before school when he was young. In the second clip, taken from PSS, narrator Phil McCormick captures a slice of the East Side, where he and Stuart grew up. Their stories mesh together but their situations are born out of different circumstances.
My second novel, the follow up to your Silent Face. Price includes shipping.
“A meandering but vigorous story about wayward youth and the necessity of art.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
“The reader will likely be reminded of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity or possibly Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused; Lane’s tale is similarly episodic and digressive and more dedicated to re-creating the feeling of a time and place than telling a cohesive story. Even so, the sharp prose and inviting energy help it to succeed where similar novels fail. Readers will enjoy following Stuart’s thought processes, wherever they lead.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
What lies ahead that doesn’t suck? Summer break forces Stuart Page to return home and wrestle with his fraying ties to the East Side of Flint, his memory an archive of cassettes he would like to erase. His freshman year of college was lame. More early Cure than Spandau Ballet, he might be overheard saying. More Gary Numan than Falco.
Flustered by visits from a stoic viking, fueled by an endless supply of beer, Stu picks apart an obsession with the lead singer of Joy Division and chugs the sour dregs of insecurity as he drunkenly veers through Flint’s blue collar fight culture, summer hook ups, the aftereffects of Old School Catholicism and Reaganomics in Your Silent Face.
Key words; fiction, coming of age, 80s music, New Wave, Gen X, Rust Belt, Native American, graffiti, urban poetry
This little dude (3”x3”) has been hanging out on my table for a long time. I haven’t painted since December, but last night I sat down where I paint in the kitchen and revived this dull painting with my pastel pencils. The smallest painting of a black hole ever made? Hmmm. My phone camera really captures the grain of the canvas.
Black Hole, 3”x3”
Last year at Buckham Gallery’s 40th anniversary celebration, flyers from previous exhibitions were displayed on a partition. The display included a flyer from the summer of 2004 for an exhibition titled Dancing to a Different Drummer, a four or five-person show that included my work. I remember being thrilled to show at Buckham’s old space—a place of which I had fond memories. For the life of me, though, I could not recall what paintings I had shown. My notebooks were usually good for retrieving the details of such events, but I didn’t seem to have any documentation to fall back on. I knew there had to be photos somewhere, but I couldn’t locate any of those, either. Until now. This morning, I stumbled upon a folder that contained pics from the opening. I present them below in fuzzy brilliance as I prepare to show a few paintings in Buckham’s upcoming fundraiser event in March, 2025. The kids were young scenesters, dragged to my art openings, but they usually managed to have fun. The pieces were paintings from 2003-2004. These series can be found in my galleries: scroll to the end for links.
A pic from last year’s anniversary opening.
This painting was 5’x4’ and had recently won Best of Show in the Saginaw County Art Contest.
Scenesters.
Seven is my favorite number. Here are seven pieces from the shop at different price points.
acrylic, oil pastel pencil & colored pencil on canvas, 24”x24”, price includes shipping
acrylic, oil paintstick, pigment stick, oil pastel, crayon & ink on canvas, 20”x16”, price includes shipping
acrylic, gouache, crayon & colored pencil on paper, 24”x18”, price includes shipping
acrylic on canvas, 36”x36”, price includes shipping
This poem seems relevant. I posted it on my blog after I wrote it quite a while ago. The blog page is one of the most visited pages on my website.
January has been a great month for sales and I am very grateful.
You can read reviews of the novels here.
