Author: v2j9ueT436
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Installment Five: Draping Abstract Space
Texture, color, light, shadow, depth, food for thought: Mix all these ingredients into the stew and maybe the outcome is an overcooked mash. Or maybe there are enough options from which anyone can choose, to which one might relate. Maybe still, a synergistic union is created, transporting the viewer somewhere other. Using the color combination…
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Approaching The Center – Installment 4
My masters thesis exhibit was called Approaching The Center. Each large canvas was entitled Center Space Variation and numbered. The average size was 5’ X 6’ On my committee were two abstract painters and a philosopher specializing in Aesthetics. The written part discussed how an intricate piece of music is able to send a listener…
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Kitsch or Quiche? (third installment)
The atmosphere of UMASS’ MFA program took some getting used to. In a school of 25,000 students there were only five painting candidates admitted per year. At 21 I was the youngest, and one of two awarded a full ride in the form of a teaching associateship. My ego soared as I taught drawing and…
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Still The Beginning (second installment)
At Rice my interests outside of art were developing. Among them were classical music and philosophy. I also had wonderful art history classes, and during these lectures I became fascinated with the thick, gloppy paint areas of the impressionists, the precise color theory, layering and order of the pointillists, the boundless imaginings of the surrealists,…
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The Beginning
It’s the 40th anniversary of my MFA in painting from UMASS, and while living and working very much in the present I think it is also time for a look back. Those who have followed the work as it progressed through time might want to review the timeline at this point, and those who have…
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Reiki Healing Art at D’Arrigo Gallery and Wayne Art Center
Not easy to write a blog post in the midst of recent and ongoing devastation in Houston, Mexico, Haiti, the Caribbean and Florida. And if the waters were calm and floods receded it would still be difficult to maintain stasis in our bizarre political climate. But this is an art site and a healing arts…
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Community Art Show at D’Arrigo Gallery
Follow this link to see some of the new Community Expressions show at the D’Arrigo Gallery of Salus University. Read about the show, the exhibitors and intent. http://www.salus.edu/News/News-Stories/Community-Expressions-Gallery-Exhibit-Open.aspx#sthash.C6CPy7OF.dpuf
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Welcome, Springtime in January Exhibit
Welcome to my new site! I’ll be giving updates regularly, posting on my blog. For today, all I want to say is cruise around and enjoy looking. Any questions? I’d love to further a discussion about art and/or Reiki. If you live in the Philadelphia area, get out to see “Springtime in January” a show…