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"This is all about communicating a different way for me , eliminating color,
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a cross narrative 24" x 18" 2010
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Place: Studio
The turning point in life is one that changes everything, black and white or maybe color....
cross narrative - "Process Study II" 41" x 29" 2010 • Place: Studio
Yesterday, at 4:30 pm I became 59yrs of age ... kind of feels the way I felt when I turned 50 ... the weight of the world was lifted off my solders . We had a wonderful get together in Tribeca for five dollar Art Matinis at Edwards. In preparing myself for the celebration I decided to be a little nestalgic and walked through my past. Starting at 23rd street and 5th Avenue (NY, NY). In 1970 I took the same walk first to explore the Flat Iron district then it was still a combination factories and photography studios. I was heading to see my first studio at 100 5th Avenue. My walk unfortunatly not in order brought me to 20th between 5th and 6th, then 18th and Broadway, then 18th between 6th and 7th. and finally back to 100 5th ave at 15th and 5th. A little zigzag through my life. Still having many more blocks to go, I continued to search out where I lived and worked over the past 40 yrs that lay in the path of my long walk to Tribecca ...
63" x 44" 2010
Place: Studio When faced with a blank surface waiting for that idea, there is always a first flash of a concept, something the canvas is asking for , but many times ignored. This past week, I kept on thinking about splashes. So I took the another path, more analytical idea, a geometric dialog. In the last moments of studying the finished work while drying, Holding a container of paint in my hand, I stood up an dropped its total contents on the canvas...
cross narrative - "back" 50" x 41.5" •
Place: Studio
Once a month we experience the adventure of hundreds of art lovers visiting our studio within a few short hours... Somewhere mingling in the new faces I found a young couple standing in front of one of my latest works, quietly gazing at it. Engaging them, we discussed the core of my work. Having not mentioned the intent of the painting they started to tell me why they were so absorbed by the work. ... they had found virtual worlds on a my canvas... discussing the references to Action painting, Minimalism and Bauhaus ideology... I realized that my current way of implementing these concepts represented a major leap in dialog... from 1930's - 50's references to 2010. These Ideas are now in the moment: three dimensionally, Virtually and Historically.
By the end of the night we had interacted with the most incredible people on so many levels...
cross narrative - "spiral" 64" x 45" (18)
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Place: Studio
i am empowered by the idea that someone is watching me live. I am an exhibitionists of sorts. The idea that one may be following every move of construction of my work, that I am letting them in on my private life, the making of art... ......
Live from the West Chelsea Art District in New York City
From time to time we will have the Camera on so u may
Place: standing in the studio
Asked the familiar question of what my work references; I answered. "When i was a computer jock i would pontificate on the nature of computing and compare it the spontaneous organic nature of wet paint. So one of my listeners of years ago said prove it. Thus the silent core of my work... Working out the flow with objects in a virtual world of the canvas.
Turning to my visitor of yesterday ... I re-defined my work to them as object oriented painting... in the sense of Nicholas Negroponte
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Place: Studio
After some three months of working on an entangled idea, a work that had at least six lives. thus, the finished work, “Trois Mois”
cross narrative - "trois mois" Detail of a 64" x 43 " •
Place: Studio A surface sometimes calls to be caressed over and over again, t' ill it becomes a complete thought. When I first faced this canvas I saw an open free image, where the gesture was predominately, the geometric forms flying from one level to the next... The canvas doesn't wish to have this though.... The Canvas is in control now... but not for much longer...
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Place: Some where between MurryHill and Chelsea As I was peddling today to the studio, my thoughts wondered, thinking about the things people play with. As I left MurryHill crossing 37th Street and adventured into an antique fair, was confronted by objects and rode on. Making a left to the convention center I found the Automobile show, it truly looked like a circus. Heading to the river there was a rather large cruise ship insight, a couple of city blocks long. Now on the bike path heading to studio to finish work... I wondered what influence these visual interludes will have on my work... • Place: Studio We decided about a week ago to have a open studio six days a week, from 10:30 to 5:30. Everyday we meet wonderful people. Today a gentlemen was wondering the building and I invited him in. I watched him for almost a half an hour sit and focus on one of my works. It was incredible to see the state he was in when he left the studio.
crossed narratives - "revisited - naked" 2010 acrylic, graphite and sumi ink on canvas •
Place: Studio - Sunday Morning
Stockholm and New Zealand. The conversations varied from, being interviewed spontaneously for an article in a New Zealand art letter to discussing he relationship of letter forms and abstract mark making. What fascinated me the most is the discussions around certain work. There are 3 works that continually attract people. FLY(2008), Homage to Picasso (2008) and Naked revisited (2010). What they have in common is at they are they key works that inspired four years of my work. Today I have latent images of our works being viewed by these so many different curious eyes. What a wonderful thing to be able to share this with our visitors.
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Place: Studio - Saturday Morning
For five years I have been making entry's in this diary. The purpose is to avail the viewers of my work and another point of view of my life... a non-academic one. My personal history, art related or not. As one reads these words it is my hope that they can place themselves in my shoes and enjoy the life I have been so fortunate to have.
crossed narrative - "figuration fly IV" 44"x12"
Place: Studio - Friday night Last night our neighbors had no place to do there make-up for a beauty shoot, so I let them use my partners work table. As a photographer in the 70's I loved watching the wonderful transition of the canvas of a models face, as the make- up artist placed layers of paint down, again and again. In this case this fare skin young German girl, she was re-modeled like a Vermeer painting. Feet away from them I was making gestures and droppings on my work ....
crossing narratives - "first quarter I" (left) 48"x24"
Place: MOMA GARDEN For some 50yrs I have been visiting the garden, always first looking for Picasso's goat, a friend of shorts. I remember once during a concert in the garden I shared a cigarette with it, leaving a live cigarette burning in its mouth (1967). I look around the garden today and find it like a time capsule... The Picasso's goat and Tim Burton's Reindeer.
crossing falls - 54" x 54" - acrylic and sumi ink on canvas - 2010
Place: Studio Do you remember the first time as a child looking into a puddle of water. The swirling of the elements in the water, the bubbles and your reflection. ...
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Place: Home This is a place I always find the easiest to think. The word "Naked" as it is the title of my To be completed later....
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Place: Chelsea Studio Love rainy days, they just clean up everything. Yesterday was sunny, the light was full in the studio. Our guests enjoyed a wondering conversation relating to our art. Like rainy days, it was a time to order and clean-up our thoughts ... The pigeons were on the ledge looking in...
crossed narrative - "figuration fly I" 12"x16" (150) (13)
Place: Chelsea Studio As a child at my first classical concert, I was greatly impressed by the Timpani, the kettle drums Recently, I was reminded of this when viewing film and digital media that have been made of me If the action of making the mark creates a sound, isn't that mark in a sense a score of that sound, In fact, it has also been the subject of an approach that I have been experimenting with in collaboration This work begins another level under the umbrella of my continuing "Cross Narrative Series," named for
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Place: Chelsea Studio Somewhere in my early 20's my heart stopped prior to surgery... from there my imagination developed. I don't have much memory of the illness, but at the moment of crisis my mind flourished with incredible imagery. (we have heard to many stories about this type of accuracy so I am not sure of the reality of these memories.) Everyday I feel that state as a awake, I see ...
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Place: Chelsea Studio Saturday early, I set out on my annual New Year walk, wondering around NYC and reflecting upon my work and my life of the past year. As I walked, I realized my accomplishments of the past year and what foundations I set for the future in 2009.
cross narrative - "Black Nigh" 2 12"" x 15.5 " (12) c
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Place: Chelsea Studio This is about thank you... for our new comrades on 21st street. For this we look forward to the new year with our new friends.
crossed narrative - "figuration III" 8.5" x 11 " (13)
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Place: Chelsea Studio Today we left the studios for awhile and went to see A Philip Guston works true intent. My good friend explained this to me today... I have been searching for has opened that door....
crossed narrative - steam acrylic and sumi ink on arches paper (23)
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Place: Chelsea Studio My father feared death at my age 58, a great man who lived to 82. From him in his last days I learned the idea of the joy of making and giving, and the value of every day. Everyday is the day I open my mind and exhale what I see.
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