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 | 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 | 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...
by admin | Feb 19, 2011 | Digital art, Landscape Art
Moment by moment, glimpse after glimpse… we are constantly being given opportunities to see the world as it is, in all its depth and simplicity. These photographs capture those times when the grandness of the world is punctuated by moments of stillness and...
by admin | May 19, 2010 | Digital art, Landscape Art
Any landscape is a metaphor for the human mind and condition. It is full of textures, colors, hills and uncertain depth that are a map of how our minds are. The reality we see is just that, only something seen as perception but not anything that can be characterized...
by admin | Apr 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
This ‘marker’ represents both the psychological/emotional break I took for several years and the lapse in any serious effort with my work. From the years 1998 through to 2003, I took a long break from producing any serious artwork. THough I continued to...
