by admin | Mar 1, 2012 | News and Events
Opening this weekend, Sunday March 4, from 1 – 4 pm, at the Watchung Arts Center, is an exhibition that you’ll want to see. It is the New Art Group’s latest show and it focuses on how each of us, as artists, react to things inside and outside of us...
by admin | Feb 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
The latest work involves an exploration of the underpinnings of Marx’s idea of Entfremdung, typically translated as alienation but really is closer to estangement. These works reconsider this idea and how it’s roots are what drive humanity further and...
by admin | Dec 22, 2011 | Thinking about Art - Out Loud
In pondering the burgeoning consequences of man-made combustion on the climate, it’s become increasingly apparent to me that we do really need to start taking into account everything we do and how it influences our air, land and water quality. The naysayers may...
by admin | Aug 16, 2011 | Thinking about Art - Out Loud
…no more bullshit. That’s the simple truth. And whether it’s in architecture, politics or art, it’s about time that everyone start calling a spade, a spade. There’s a great blog article I was reading that brought this concept and...
by admin | Jul 12, 2011 | Thinking about Art - Out Loud
How many of you have noticed, as I have, how incredibly bad off a lot of people are right now? I mean, it’s easy to ignore if you want, and god knows lots of people do, but WOW!, it’s really getting ugly out there. (If you don’t see it, are you...
by admin | Jun 2, 2011 | News and Events
This coming Sunday, June 5, from 1 to 4 pm, Philip F. Clark and I are having a reception for the artists for our most recent curatorial effort. The show, TEXT ME!, provides a dialog between artworks by artists whose work includes text and words in some form. The...
by admin | Mar 26, 2011 | Digital art, Identity-based art, News and Events
My latest works, inspired by the ideas of Greek heroes, god and demigods will be on view in the 20th anniversary exhibit of the New Art Group at the Watchung Arts Center. The show entitled, “Is there a Pulse?” focuses on how artwork developed earlier in...
by admin | Mar 21, 2011 | Landscape Art
You lie. I lie. And yet I consider myself a truthful person. In fact, I take pride in characterizing myself that way, an honest person. That we live in a time when, more than ever before it’s impossible to tell truth from lies is an understatement. Our entire...
by admin | Mar 17, 2011 | Conceptual Art, Dialogical Aesthetics, Digital art, Relational art, Thinking about Art - Out Loud
I have spent a great deal of my life trying to figure out how my work ‘fits in’ to the contemporary art world. To be clear, I’ve struggled with what ‘ism’ or trend or group might my work belong to so that I might explain my peculiar...
by admin | Feb 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
This group of portraits, inspired by the old adage, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me,” is an illustration of how that saying needs to be revisited. Given all that has been discovered about bullying, especially verbal...
by admin | Feb 21, 2011 | Dialogical Aesthetics, Digital art, Identity-based art, News and Events
A very recent digital photographic diptych, “Queer, Fag, Idiot (Self-portrait)’ went on view in the 3rd Annual International Juried Exhibition, “Inner & Outer Landscape: Contemporary Self-Portraiture & Representation’ at the A.D....
by admin | Feb 19, 2011 | Digital art, Installation Art, News and Events
In “Picnic in the Rain”, you are the vitality of the work. Your presence activates the work just as the work gives you whatever feelings or perceptions you take away from it. ZEN On it’s most basic level, Picnic in the Rain is an environment for contemplation...
