Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Unfinished Paintings
I found these unfinished images on an old disc...
Merry Legs at Britwick (unfinished), 2004, oil on canvas, 48x60 in.
Robin and Joe Sleeping (detail), 1999, oil on panel, 11x14in.
Merry Legs at Britwick (unfinished), 2004, oil on canvas, 48x60 in.
Robin and Joe Sleeping (detail), 1999, oil on panel, 11x14in.Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Robin in France
Last week Robin took a business trip to Versailles and Paris.
Here are a couple of pictures...
Friday, May 16, 2008
Milton Resnick Quotes
Quotes from the book, Out of the Picture: Milton Resnick and the New York School, by Geoffrey Dorfman.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
New Painting
Untitled, 2008, latex and acrylic on canvas, 42x42 in.
Seeming Self, 2008, latex and acrylic on canvas, 42x42 in.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Nozkowski Talk @ The Fisher Landau Center for Art
Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (4-41), 1983
Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (P-33), 2008Last Sunday Robin and I made the one and a half hour drive to Long Island to hear a talk by Thomas Nozkowski at the Fisher Landau Center for Art.
The talk was in conjunction with the artist's mini-retrospective there that includes aprox. 32 paintings from the late '70's to the very recent.
Nozkowski is a very interesting painter. He bucked the system back in the '80's, when artists like Schnabbel and Salle were doing large scale works incorporating things like broken crockery, by painting small (22x30 in, 16x20in) paintings on canvas board.
Nozkowski only spoke for about 15 mins. before turning the floor over to questions. This was a little disappointing as I'd hoped he'd speak longer.
The audience of about 30? was typified by women in black with too short pants , funky shoes and square glasses and men with their heads shaved, accents, and square glasses. Also a smattering of students. Typically most of the questions included the phrases "the other" and "fetishizing studio practice."
The painter spoke smoothly about his working methods, how he arrived at his images and current trends in the art world. It was well worth the nerve wracking drive to see more of Nozkowski's work first hand and to hear him speak in person about his work and life as an artist. So, thanks to Robin for driving! Not counting the hair raising U-ie on Madison Ave.
Nozkowski has a show of aprox. forty recent paintings currently on view at Pace Wildenstein in Chelsea through May, 3rd. And he's traded in the canvas board for belgian linen now so he must be doing allright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOVfjWJUgdwWednesday, April 09, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
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Old Figurative Work
Robin's Knees, 1997, oil on board, 5x7 in.
Priscilla Eating Snow, 1997, oil on board, 5x7 in.
Robin Waking Up, 1997, oil on board, 5x7 in.
Bre, 1997, oil on board, 5x7 in.
Self, 1997, oil on board, 5x7 in.Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Ravenna Taylor's Work Online @ Galerie Cerulean
By Other Means, 2005, 70x77 inches, mixed media collage- ©Ravenna TaylorPlease take a second to view my friend Ravenna's incredible collages at the online space: Galerie Cerulean.
Ravenna is doing some very elegant and complex work that deserves a look!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Get Ready For Some Smooth Sounds!
I just traded in my bass guitar for an Alto Sax!
"Can you play the sax?" you may well ask.
No, but I'm confident I'll master it soon.
Besides it's much cooler for an artist to play the saxaphone---Think Larry Rivers!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Freud's Etchings @ MOMA, Juan Usle @ Cheim & Read, and Missing Cai Guo-Qiang @ the Guggenheim
Lucian Freud, Ill in Paris, 1948
Lucian Freud, Girl with Leaves, 1948
Lucian Freud, Double Portrait, 1985-86
Juan Usle, Cada Vez Mas Cerca, 2006-07
Juan Usle, Sin Desenlace, 2007
Juan Usle, Books and Dreams, 2007Yesterday Robin took the day off and we went into Manhattan to see some art.
First we took a long cab ride from Penn Station to the Guggenheim only to find out that it is closed on Thursdays! This was disappointing because I really wanted to see the Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe* exhibition. I'm going to have to go back this coming week while Robin is in Phoenix.
Next we shared a $10 sandwich at the Guggenheim cafe (which was open) before heading over to MOMA to see the Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings show.
This was an incredible show! I'm not sure that an image printed in a book has ever done the original work as much a disservice as is done to Freud's work.
The images were so subtle and strong that it's sometimes hard to believe they were done by human hand. There were a good number of paintings represented as well to illustrate the relationship between the two mediums. And a few of the actual plates were exhibited alongside the final prints. Some of the work that stood out to me were Ill in Paris, 1948 (I was also able to see this one at the I.M.M.A), Benefits Supervisor Resting, 1994, the triptych of etchings: Head, Torso, and Thighs, 2001, Pluto Aged Twelve, 2000, and Double Portrait, 1985-86.
Freud is a hard act to follow but I really wanted to see The Juan Usle show Brezales at Cheim and Read so we hopped in a cab and went to Chelsea.
Usle is a painter from Spain who has lived in New York since the late 1980's. He is often grouped with artists like Raoul de Keyser, Thomas Nozkowski, and Bill Jensen because of his refusal to settle into a confining style and because their is influenced by their life and surroundings as well as their openness to subjectivity.
Usle's show consisted of mostly small easel size paintings---beautifully layered and colorful patterns with small, deft and unexpected, intensely hued touches.
I've wanted to see some of his paintings in person since I missed a big show of large work at the I.M.M.A in Dublin by one day!
Standouts here were, Cada Vez Mas Cerca, 2006-07, Sin Desenlace, 2007, Rebanadas de Cielo, 2007, and La Camara Oculta, 2007.
After this all we could do was go to a diner and have some great rice pudding before heading back to a bar near Penn Station ---had a couple of beers-and Robin had her Jameson neat---and waited for rush hour to end before taking the train back home.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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