Undead

I love the Met.

2011-09-06T15:37:00.001-07:00

Zabriskie Point

2011-07-28T17:38:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsW6ta4X8o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This final scene says so much about the state of painting over the last ten years. Painting has been obsessed with blowing stuff up, wonderfully so.

New Painting

2011-06-26T15:03:00.000-07:00

Finished a new painting this Friday. Here are some quick pics from my phone. Finished this painting and immediately had to pack up and move out of my studio.

Pleasant Surprise

2011-06-04T15:17:00.000-07:00

Today I visited a local craft fair in Louisville, Kentucky and wandered around more interested in people watching than seeing any interesting art. At the very end of the long line of booths was this tent filled with paintings by this guy named David Walinski. I hadn't expected to see anything very interesting but was pleasantly surprised. Maybe it's because I just watched the film SubUrbia last night but I found this guys work to have a lot more character than the usual local painter.

www.davidwalinski.com

Color Studies

2011-05-25T22:34:00.001-07:00

I've been doing these color studies to get some ideas for color combinations. I've found the best way is to put all the colors together on one piece and see what pops. Here is an example of one (above). These paintings are kind of all over the palce but I'd like to do some more involving a narrower range of colors. For example, red and purple or green and yellow and concentrate on specific combinations of tone/color.

Recycling

2011-05-23T17:28:00.001-07:00

So I have all these abandoned canvases and stretcher bars from years ago and I decided I had better make use of them. Above is an old painting I was working on 2 years ago that was going to be of all these geometric shapes intertwined with mutant cats and an icecream cone looking pile of poop in the middle. Admittedly a little ridiculous but would have looked great. It never quite worked out for various reasons. One of which was that I was living and working in a basement that always flooded and it was so damp that the masking tape never adhered. It seriously felt like a swamp or jungle down there. I lived under a shiny tentlike army parachute, slept on a cot and had a little drawing desk. At night with the chirping crickets and my single light on in my dark camp I almost believed I was in the jungle. It was a strange way to live and work. I'm digressing. Anyway, this canvas is getting sanded down tonight to hide the old painting, and flipped n gessoes on the fresh side of canvas. The stretcher bars on the right were from ages ago. I just recut them to 5ft. I am very excited about the painting these are being used for.

Armory Show Notes

2011-04-02T21:33:00.000-07:00

These are some of the artists that struck me at the 2011 Armory Show.

AES+F ( videos! )

Trimalchio

Part One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAwt-sw3Qeg&feature=related

Part Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg61Zfv-yp0&feature=related

Sebastian Bremer

Luis Gisbert

Lori Nix

Charlie Roberts

Alain Bublex

Chad Gerth

Massimo Vitali

Yuki Onodera

Lu Yao

Ben Johnson (tape painting!)

Olaf Otto Becker

Richard Misrach

Michael Wolf (highly detailed large photographs)

James Casebere (miniatures photographed)

Denise Grunstein

Sue Williams

Patrick Jacobs (perfectly convincing miniaturized world you look at through a lens)

Armen Eloyan (these make me smile so much)

Ulrika Warmling

Gilles Barbler

Martin Liebscher ( yes every person in the audience is Martin Liebscher)

Julia Steiner

Sandra Cinto

Jan Fabre (yes those are beetle wings)

Katrín Sigurðardóttir

Richard Mosse

Renie Spoelstra

Petros Chrisostomu

Portraits Are Ghosts

2010-12-11T18:04:00.000-08:00

They linger within their artifacts.

This "Young Lady of the LeBlond Family" by Rosalba Carriera is still alive.

Hans Memling has animated this Florentine visitor forever.

Tomaselli and Florentine Art

2010-12-11T17:16:00.000-08:00

I found this florentine table piece by artists Poccetti and Lingozzi in one of my italian books and saw an interesting connection to artist Fred Tomaselli. (Btw. the Poccetti/Lingozzi table took 16 years to make!)

An octagonal drawing table by artists Poccetti and Lingozzi

"Dead Eyed Bird Blast" by Fred Tomaselli (above)

"Geode" Fred Tomaselli

(side note: upon looking around online I saw this weird puzzle website containting the florentine tabe?! http://home.comcast.net/~mike_helland/pzl8000-series.html )

Also, due to the inherent formal composition of most italian dome art, I found it interesting to compare Tomaselli with this example by Iacopo da Torrita in the San Giovanni Battista.

San Giovanni cupola mosaic by Iacopo do Torrita

You Have Not Looked Enough At Tintoretto

2010-12-10T17:39:00.000-08:00

"St. Mark Freeing the Slave" Jacopo Tintoretto

Goodbye Maskingtape

2010-12-03T21:58:00.000-08:00

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Old news

2010-11-23T21:01:00.000-08:00

Part of the building where I work collapsed a few months ago. Considering all the decaying buildings I've painted it's fitting that I work in one.

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Minarelli Getting A Rebuild

2010-11-19T00:32:00.001-08:00

Sold all my extra bikes and I am now down to just my one Italian darlin. This winter she is getting some fresh paint, new 75 polini top end, bottom end rebuild, fork upgrades, new homoet 6p pipe. Classic and fast.

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Scrapped Idea.

2010-10-29T21:46:00.000-07:00

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Fresh Start: New Studio, New Work

2010-08-01T16:22:00.000-07:00

Just got a new studio in butchertown, louisville, KY. Beginning some new paintings in some new processes. More to come.

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Paintings- Part Two

2010-03-14T00:39:00.000-08:00

Paintings Part One

2009-03-14T00:35:00.001-07:00

Other Paintings

2009-03-14T00:31:00.000-07:00