i haven't posted much from my studio lately. i suppose one good excuse would be how tied up i've been recently with some proposal deadlines (a potential two-person show with my dude mike lewis and a public art RFP for the City of New York). and, of course, i continue to keep it classy with my squeegee pushing for griot:
but alas, my studio practice! yeah, it's starting to get good to me again. :)
after a brief and impromptu studio visit by my main man mike curato a week ago, it occurred to me that this painting needed.. uh.. more paint? but it wasn't his suggestion, we didn't even talk about the piece at all. just having another person in the room with it made it feel naked, just incomplete enough to make me bashful. or maybe i felt bashful because it's a really vulnerable piece. a precarious, disoriented, displaced depiction, created in the wake of a precarious, disoriented, displaced period of my personal life. maybe a strange departure in subject matter and pallet as well. eh, whatever. i gave it some more paint and now i don't feel so naked. oil, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas:
the next piece was perhaps even more of a burden - an overworked canvas i've schelped unresolved from one studio to the next, covered in experimental layers, hoping my multiple bad choices would eventually cancel each other out. well, last time i posted this piece it was still a busy and uncommitted mess, but as of today i think i finally resolved it, once and for all. it has both the beauty and the turbulence i was aiming for. one of many paintings of Reading's landscape i plan to execute. oil, oil stick, and metallic acrylic on canvas:
and, lastly, another abandoned experimental canvas i once deemed a failure, finally i reclaimed into something halfway respectable. based on the same drawing as the previous Reading landscape, with a cassette tape ghost floating in the background (go figure). acrylic ink, oil-based ink, and oil on canvas:
come see these works and others march 9th and 10th at the invisible dog artists' open studios and "work/space" group exhibition. details coming soon!
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