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Painting Through the Pandemic
I am pleased to announce The Rhode Island Watercolor Society selected my painting, “Holland Tunnel Entrance” for their virtual exhibit called Painting Through the Pandemic.
FYI the RIWS, located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and founded in 1896 is one of the oldest water media art organizations in America.
This show will be available for viewing online only until April 9, 2021:
GREENPOINT GALLERY: Another Virtual Exhibition
Established in 2004 by artist and musician Shawn James, The Greenpoint Gallery is a non-profit arts organization in Brooklyn, New York. Since the pandemic started the gallery has been producing monthly online exhibits to help compensate for missing the normal live ones.
This exhibit features five of my latest landscape works including two from New York City, two from my hometown, Clearwater, Florida and one from an excursion to the mountains and farmlands of northern Georgia.
Although we are now in the month of March, the February exhibit will remain online for viewing:
GREENPOINT GALLERY EXHIBIT.
Enjoy the view!
OBJECTS: Ordinary to Extraordinary
Since the very early days of my artistic career as a young teenager, I saw things through a looking glass of color, shape, line and composition. That is the way I looked at things then and the way I look at things now. One day I saw my mother’s reading glasses sitting on the coffee table in the living room, the light reflecting on the lenses with a shadow cast on the magazine they were sitting on. I ran and got my box of oil pastels and sketchbook and started drawing. This began an entire series and style of artwork…….taking a relatively mundane object or scene and bringing it to life with vibrant color. I am creating in that light today, almost five decades later.
A 60 piece virtual exhibit is now available for you to view and enjoy online from now until March 6, 2021.
Click the link: OBJECTS: Ordinary to Extraordinary And lose yourself in the colorful re-creations of kitchen gadgets, shoes, glasses, tools and other familiar things.
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments as Subject Matter
Over the course of my life and painting career, I’ve been inspired by the musicians I’ve met and the beautiful instruments they play. These instruments are works of art in themselves and I cherish the intricate details of carved scrolls, knobs, strings, buttons and all the other details.
Each work is a daring but playful experiment in color, a challenge making the colors dance on the canvas. I’m so excited by it all that I get an adrenalin rush painting when the colors react a certain way.
I’ve had the time of my life painting the first 10 of the Musical Instrument Collection. Stay tuned for the next 10 or so.
Places
Places
The idea of painting places I’ve been all started a couple of years ago when I was standing on the 12th floor in the Clearwater Tower building in downtown Clearwater, Florida. It was a beautiful scene with the bridge going from mainland Clearwater to the causeway leading to the beach.
I did my usual playful experimentation with color and painted the scene with vibrant shades of blue, red, pink, orange, and green. This continues with a series of 6 or 7 other bridge paintings and then expanded to street scenes, cars, intersections, tunnels, and other places that intrigued me with the space, perspective, and patterns.
Jumping back and forth between subjects and sizes of canvas keeps me fresh and on my toes. I never get bored or stale this way. Each painting must pose its own new challenge to keep me excited and anxious about how to create a certain effect. And so, it goes…. trying new color combinations and compositions for each new work.
