I’ve recently decided to pick up painting again, after spending about a year and a half away from it. Right now I’m just working on developing a new body of work that has an abstract expressionism feel to it. I just picked up some fresh canvases and some new acrylics, so hopefully there will be… [Read more…]
August 24, 2010
While browsing over some contemporary painter’s magazines in Borders yesterday, I looked into an interview with Josh Keyes. After exploring his bio a little further, I found out he received his BFA from my school, SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and his MFA from Yale. Hell yeah, represent! Keyes’ surreal paintings are… [Read more…]
August 16, 2010
I’ve recently been exploring Ellsworth Kelly in my search for pure minimalism simple abstract works. Kelly is a painter that comes from the time period of abstract expressionism, and his hard edged paintings were a large influence on the minimalist movement past the 1950s. Picasso was Kelly’s initial influence, and he often studied the figure… [Read more…]
June 28, 2010
After finally settling in back at home (glorious Franklin, Tennessee), I’ve had time to organize all of my work and finally get things into shape. Recently, I sold a large amount of my work at SAIC’s Spring Art Sale and of course, there’s tons left over. I’ve taken some (rather janky) pictures of the work… [Read more…]
May 4, 2010
It’s rare that I feature painters, as most of my posts come from a design oriented background, but this was something I couldn’t pass up. Vince Contarino is a Brooklyn Based abstractionist that constantly employs the simple gesture of a brushstroke as the main identity in his paintings. With a nice balance between organic irregularities… [Read more…]
April 7, 2010
Tyson Roberts is an artist that I came across through a blog of some sort as usual- but his interview led me to his site and so forth and so on; I’m really impressed. Tyson is a painter that works with abstract landscapes that have a sort of Siggi Eggertsson meets Monet feel. Beautiful organic… [Read more…]
March 31, 2010
Here’s a preview of one of the smaller multiple items I’ll be selling at SAIC’s Spring Art Sale on April 9th-10th, or 8th through 9th?? But these are just a small series of watercolors that I’ll be selling as sort of “postcards.” Each painting will be a different texture/ different skin from a different “monster,”… [Read more…]
August 27, 2010
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