THE TIDE OF CREATIVITY

by | Feb 6, 2014 | 12 comments

I was just visiting my father, who is an artist, in Ashland, Oregon. He mentioned that because of some health reasons he had stopped painting. It had been a few months. I asked him if he missed it and he said he did but, at the same time, he reasoned that because you...

COLOR

by | Jan 30, 2014 | 4 comments

This week I have been working on several paintings that are mostly black and white. Interestingly what I have learned or rather relearned has to do with color. In the beginning of making a painting I am not thinking too much about color. I tend to think more in black...

CROWD SOURCING ART

by | Jan 23, 2014 | 5 comments

One of the biggest annual Art Fairs in America is Art Basel, held in Miami, Florida. It is massive and goes for almost a week. I have never seen so much art in one place. I wasn’t sure why I went except for the fact that there is pretty much more Art here, this one...

GETTING THERE FROM HERE

by | Jan 16, 2014 | 7 comments

I have a solo show in about 5 months. It is going to be at Caldwell Snyder Gallery,in San Francisco, opening June 4th, 2014. What will I make? Will it be more interesting than what I’ve made before? There is a certain amount of worry beginning to pile up, of course,...

THE ORANGE TREE

by | Jan 9, 2014 | 2 comments

I had dinner with my friend, artist and designer Tom Stanley the other night. We both attended Art Center College of Design together umpteen years ago. The conversation meandered around to our artistic paths, our careers and what was hard in the beginning that was not...

A NEW BEGINNING

by | Jan 1, 2014 | 0 comments

I absolutely love the opportunity to start over, reinvent and begin fresh again. What makes a new beginning anyway? The ending of an arbitrary weird 12-month calendar? The blow out festivities of the Holidays? The coming of the cold and rain? I am not entirely sure...