Nice party on January 21st, 2010. Dartington College in Devon, England. We had roughly 50-60 people over the course of the evening.
Exhibition Opening Night
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Category Archives: Art
Grad School?
I want to go. I am researching schools and programs for the next few months. If you have any suggestions that you think I should know about, please leave me a comment!
Superficially, I am interested in applying to Tyler School of Art, Yale, and Upenn.
I’d like to find a program that is receptive to painting w/ an ecological focus. I am not interested in going somewhere that will say “You need to take painting out of the square man! The wall hegemony is fascism!” Already experienced a pedagogy that advocates tearing down conventions, and I found it to attack the very core question of meaning itself. I would be a post-modern self referencing ironic artist if it didn’t make me so apathetic!
I want to be in an environment that nurtures and challenges my painting without being close-minded to the more radical ideas I learned at 3 Rivers 2nd Nature.
It wouldn’t hurt if they paid me to go too. (Takes Yale out of the running for sure)
Update to the Artworks section of the site
Just a quick note to point out that I’ve update the artworks section with long overdue navigation improvement. You can now view my artwork in 4 separate galleries; paintings, drawings, works on paper, and
collages. And I put little arrows above each work that advances the image gallery.
No more web mazes to navigate just to see some of my work! Feedback is always appreciated.
Do I Like Diebenkorn anymore?
When you believe something so vehemently for years, it’s good to come back around to it and try and question what made you come to that belief in the first place.
Woman on Stool…
I still like him. Samantha asked me the otherday what it was, and I said the light. But I think it is really the loneliness of them that provokes me. A kind of hopper-esque world for the suburbs, fractured and grittier. I hadn’t thought of how similar they are before.
Working on a New Self Portrait
Okay. Here is what it looks like right about now.
It’s a running joke that I paint so many self portraits that I am my best subject. This is the first self portrait since this one. Just for the record, I have been painting other things.
I’ve become aware of how these portraits work as personal reflection / confrontation. To that end this current work is very much a search for a new sense of identity in a new city, Philadelphia.
The painting is perhaps %75 done. And it has come a long way. At first it was very muddy (corresponding to the feeling of sorting out Philadelphia), and then I took a razor and actually cut the form out of the mud.
I’ve been painting in the mornings, and the sky has been switching between blue and grey. I’ve been trying to keep up.
Parts that need work, the values inside the room. The outside values are extremely bright, so I am constantly reminding myself to darken the inside values.
I also have to fix up the mouth. It’s not sitting on the jaw properly.