Spring 2015

Posted on Apr 27, 03:37 pm

Will be updating work and prices soon.

Summer 2010

Posted on Jul 28, 09:02 am

Hello and here I am, back again after too long! I have been very busy at the jewelry studio, learning everything I can about metals. This hot weather is not the time you want to be soldering metal with a torch, but there is no time like the present, right? The exiting part is that i will be posting my photos since I finally have some finished pieces!

Bahamas colors

Posted on Dec 2, 11:18 am

Just back from a trip to the Bahamas, and the colors are sticking in my mind-soon to be new paintings! Bright lemony yellow, aqua blues, hot pink, can’t wait to paint!

from The Carpet Wars by Christopher Kremmer

Posted on Jun 8, 05:27 pm

He who wars against the arts,
wars not against nations,
but against all mankind

-Arthur Urbane Dilley

Alexander Ovechkin Portrait

Posted on May 4, 10:58 pm

I recently went to Game one of the NHL Stanley Cup Semi-Finals, and brought this painting I did of Alexander Ovechkin! I am having some trouble adding it to my gallery, so i will put it here for now!

Adolf Gottlieb Apaquogue

Posted on Apr 17, 11:07 am

This painting was completed in 1961, and we see Gottlieb has come into a type of abstract landscape. These paintings are referred to as the “burst” paintings. I have recently realized that my paintings are landscapes. I have found that after returning from a trip, the experiences of seeing a new or different landscape, new or different colors, come out subconsciously in my paintings.

How does Apaquogue compare to Water, Air, Fire? (the green painting below)…

There is a softness in Water, Air, Fire, that repeats in Apaquogue. He applies the paint in almost a wash in both paintings. In the areas of contrasting color in the previous painting, the edges are soft, he has applied the paint with a thin and soft touch, and has “rubbed it in”. We see the same application in Apaquogue. The three “suns” have fading edges, soft and “rubbed” just like the application of paint in Water, Air, Fire. The black paint below is thin, a wash, yes, thicker on top, but still a rubbed wash in the background.

This style of application conveys to me a tenderness, and emotional fraility, a sweetness
and feeling of tranquility.

As far as the composition, he has simplified it in the later painting. However, it is still arranged in a block format that we can see far back in his very early work, with the “block” arrangement of the table legs in the still life.

To me, the content of this painting has so much meaning. It represents stormy seas, black trouble, war, whatever you can imagine from the strong, black, choppy brushstrokes. Yet up above the fray, we see the glowing soft light of tranquility. The “suns” feel as though they will float there melting softness over harshness forever. To me this represents the idea that no matter what turmoil we are experiencing in life, there is a steady flow of positive energy floating over us. That everything is in perfect order and happening as it should. Each hardship has a higher purpose behind it, and the boat will always return to a calm harbour no matter how rough the seas become. For me the story I feel Gottlieb is telling is a very comforting one.

Water, Air, Fire

Posted on Apr 15, 04:34 pm

Twenty years later, Gottlieb has gone abstract.
Look at the legs of the table in Gate Leg Table.
They create a rectangular “grid” which is echoed in Water, Air, Fire.

The strong lines are there, and the division of space is very similar in the two paintings.

Gate Leg Table 1925

Posted on Apr 14, 05:27 pm

Here is Gate Leg Table done by Adolf Gottlieb in 1925. This is an example of his early work, and I wanted to show how at that point, like many artists, he is working figuratively.

My early work is all figurative, and I will post it to this site at some point.

Gottlieb’s very nice line quality, and his use of organized geometric form are evident here…

Adolf Gottlieb

Posted on Apr 14, 05:04 pm

Just wanted to show some examples of another favorite artist: Adolf Gottlieb.
From the book: Adolf Gottlieb A Retrospective, by Lawrence Alloway and Mary Davis MacNaughton:

In sum, Gottlieb’s art was the conscious expression of his unconscious feelings.
“The act of painting must be rational…and disciplined,” he believed. This is evident from his methodical development of his artistic ideas beginning with his Arizona still lifes and continuing in his Pictographs, Unstill lifes, Imaginary Landscapes, Labryinths, Bursts, and later works. Gottlieb pursued variations on his pictorial concepts until he felt he had exhausted them. But balancing his will toward structure was his need for emotional expression, which nourished all of his art. “The idea that painting is merely an arrangement of lines, colors, and forms is boring”, Gottlieb said in 1955. Later, he summarized his esthetic goal: “Subjective imagery is the area which I have been exploring…I reject the outer world-the appearance of the natural world….The subconscious has been my guiding factor in all my work. I deal with inner feeling.”

I deal with inner feeling in my paintings as well! Thank you, Adolf, for your wonderful work!

Invite to Meadows Gallery

Posted on Apr 3, 03:48 pm

Backside of invite…