"The State" from my "Fresh Kills" series. This piece was inspired by "Gargantua," (below)
drawn by the great French cartoonist Honore' Daumier in 1831.
"The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements." Robert Hughes
Concept for a Bas Relief- The Portal
In my original sketch I envisioned a working electric buzzer or bell. This would be a permanent installation, approx. 10' high, embedded into the wall. The piece will be constructed with wood and painted pure white.
Charles Trenet - Boum
Watch for the little kicker near the end. Trenet's most famous song is probably La Mer. Bobby Darin recorded a hit version called "Beyond the Sea."
Concept for ArtsPaper Print Edition
"It looks too much like the New York Observer," - Palm Beach ArtsPaper Publisher/Editor, Greg Stepanich. He is correct, of course but I couldn't resist the salmon-colored paper that sets off art and photography so well. I also took a good look at The New York Sun. I like the old-timey look of the mastheads.
Best yet is this picture of Actress Noel Neill as Lois Lane, holding a copy of the Daily Planet- a massive broadsheet that would fold into a neat tabloid size. It has a classic masthead as well. And who wouldn't snatch up a newspaper with headlines that large? GRAPHIC ART GENIUS TRIUMPHS! NEWSPAPERS SAVED!
Theatre Invite
The initial sketch (featuring Hamlet) that I sent to the client.
They requested a couple of changes. Can you see them?
Cutie And The Boxer Official Trailer (2013)
My favorite scene in this excellent documentary about the Japanese-born, Brooklyn-bred painters Ushio Shinohara (The Boxer) and his wife Noriko (Cutie) occurs late in the film as the two are preparing for a joint show in a New York Gallery.
Life for the couple, who have been married 40 years, has often bordered on desperation. Ushio's career peaked thirty years earlier and they have been living from painting to painting in the same cramped Brooklyn apartment, ever since. They NEED this show to succeed.
Fresh Roasted Sculptors
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| Leslie Ortiz, Luis Montoya and Pat Crowley minutes after conducting a bronze pour on a blistering hot morning at the Montoya Sculpture Studio in West Palm Beach, Fl. 9/3/2013. |
Tom Wolfe
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Tom Wolfe- my favorite writer. Wolfe and Pat Oliphant were my greatest influences when I was a budding political cartoonist. 18" x 24 acrylic on canvas (unfinished.) |
Keep Calm and Sing Along
Actor Barrie Ingham wrote and is performing a one man show featuring the words and music that cheered and encouraged the British people during the darkest days of World War Two. The show is structured like a radio broadcast; hence the radio tower in place of the cross on the crown at the top.
This is the first concept of a poster for the show which will be performed by Mr. Ingham this summer in New England. It'll need a bit of tweaking. Winston Churchill will be replacing the chap on the right. Several people asked me about the object that has the word "starring: on it. It's a barrage balloon; a common sight in England during the war. The wing-shearing cables attached to the balloons served to thwart low-level attacks from German airplanes.
I'll probably add another balloon in the distance and color the whole thing for clarity.
Open Studio
A 20 minute sketch executed in charcoal
at the Saturday morning Open Studio session
conducted at the Lighthouse School of Art in
Tequesta. We're there from 9-noon.
Join us!
Invisible Man on First
It's been warmer than usual making it nearly impossible to work in my garage studio (I have several set-ups for painting and drawing inside the Hunt Club.) As the weather cools I hope to finish a series of three large pieces done on dropcloths. This one is called "Invisible Man on First" and measures aprox. 4' x 6' and will feature trompe l'oeil brushes, tubes of paint and unfinish drawings scattered about.
I'll finish it off with a deep blue frame.
The companion pieces will be entitled "Invisible Man on Second" and "Invisible Man on Third."
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