Oil sketch of just slaughtered deer carcass. (approximately 40” x 24”) I recently read a business blog on the elevator pitch. Don’t give it, it basically said. Instead, get people to ask you for it. It gave an example. The author was ch…

Installation view of Social FACEworking This is the east coast show going on simultaneous to the west coast show, in NY. Press release below along with pictures of how the painting looks installed, up, in the show. Well....sort of. I shipped it rolled, n…

I dropped off my work yesterday and the show looks fabulous! The work overall is cohesive and strong. I have five accident paintings in the show.     Works by Kate Vrijmoet, Severn Eaton, Susan Arthur, Susan Gladstone, L. Kelly Lyles, Lit…

Wassily Kandinsky, Pleasures, 1151 x 1062 cm The confluence of three things: My own ruminations. The shared opinions of a friend. And recent readings. Consider ways the artist serves the community at large, what purpose an artist has and gives, merely by…

This is the poem from which the title comes. Below the original is my english translation. I'm a little embarrassed. Huidobro is so rhythmic on the ear. Gorgeous. And he uses a repeat, which in my translation, I chose to change each time. I took liberti…

People who are highly creative often have odd thoughts and behaviors—and vice versa. Both creativity and eccentricity may be the result of genetic variations that increase cognitive disinhibition—the brain’s failure to filter out extraneous informati…

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe This is regarding certain outtakes from Patti Smith’s National Book Award Winning memoir, Just Kids, her account of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. But also, an account of being and becoming–an a…

Photographer Ken Wagner at today’s photoshoot in his studio. this gives you a sense of scale of this painting. It looks to me like Ken’s about to get splashed-I’m happy to report. Of course the painting orients the other way, but we h…

Cecily Brown Deleuze wrote about the difference between figuration and figurative in this way: “Painting has to extract the Figure from the figurative [...] modern painting has a different relation to figuration or illustration than the painting…

Ebb and flow. My hard drive is back. Not that I ever really lost my personal hard driving self, but the one with all the digital files is back with all the files in tact and yes, it did cost all that moohoohoohoolalalala to recover the data. But what a …