Everything (not so) old is NEW again – PXOP at Jersey City
After something of a dry spell, things are picking up. I have work, along with the other New Art Group members, at the Jersey City Studio Tour 2013. I'm showing works from 2011 from the "Sticks and Stones" exhibit. It's an exciting event that is city wide in Jersey...
GREEN – Bound/Brook
In a prophetic moment, the New Art Group pulled together an exhibit for the Hamilton Street Gallery called, "Bound/Brook". The works in the exhibit highlighted the various viewpoints one can take living with being trapped by naturally caused catastrophic weather or by...
PXOP artwork in Somerville exhibit – 5/17 thru 5/20, 2012
Come see some of the landscape pieces from my Truth/Lies series at the Arts on Division St. regional artist event, 59 Main St., Somerville NJ, this weekend - May 17, 18, 19 and 20. The event includes live performances, musical events and several gallery shows. The...
OMG! at Watchung Arts Center, 3/4 to 3/28, Reception 3/4, 1-4pm
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 in these tumultuous...
Estrangement
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 further away...
What the world needs now is…
...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 it's encumbant realities to...
The almost-Great Depression is a reality.
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 blind?) As an artist,...
TEXT ME: Word and Image in Visual Art
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...
New Art Group Exhibit 3/3 to 3/30
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 our careers...
Truth/Lies
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 process...