It's been way too long since I've posted! My excuse is that I'm lame. This is a recent sand painting I did for a gift. It's 12"x12" enamel and sand on board.
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This was a commission from a guy who was interested in a winter scene
for his home upstate. It is sand and enamel on canvas 24"x 36."
This collage is actual size.
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This is inspired by landscapes in advertising. 24"x36" Oil on Canvas.
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I've been doing some one inch square grid collages lately. It helps me to be more precise in making art. Gotta love it!
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This photo is from a series of firework photographs. I took all the pictures close to the ground as the shells burst out of the mortar tubes, or like this one, as they're shooting skyward.
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This is a portrait of my wife, Suzannah.
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I shot this in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
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This was taken in Harlem.
Comments (0) - Link to this post | TrackBacks (0)This video is a prequel to "Bighead," which you can watch here on Invisibleman. This was the original sketch, filmed in a day, and then packed away in a crate. I thought it would be fun to make this early version into a trailer. It was filmed in Pennsylvania around 1998 using a super 8 camera. Staring Stephen Antonson, Paul Clark, Marci Levine, Pauly the cat and myself.
Comments (0) - Link to this post | TrackBacks (0)This painting was lost for a few years. Not any more. It's 12"x17" Oil on board.
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This painting was loosely based on a faded found photograph. Its 48"x 60". Oil on canvas.
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Convenience stores have always been a place of influence for me. The quick and easy, they show our transient lives. Our shortened appetites for relief.
Comments (0) - Link to this post | TrackBacks (0)This was a wintertime project, playing with my camcorder.
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This painting is acrylic on board, 18"x24".
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This is another oil on rug painting, about 16"x16".
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In an ongoing search for recycled materials, I "ran" across some red carpet. In a Mark Rothkoesque fashion, my intention was simply to create a landscape feel with one horizon line. It's glued on painted board, 17"x22".
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This painting was inspired by small mountain lakes in the Tongass National Forest, near Ketchikan, Alaska. Oil on Canvas, 40"x30"
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On Long Island, as in much of the country, birds once called common are engaged in an unsettling baffling vanishing act. Recently the National Audubon Society released a list, compiled from 40 years of data, of the top 20 common birds declining nationally. These 15 are no longer common on Long Island. Like the honey bees this past year, no one knows exactly why bird populations are declining. This is 18"x24" black sand on canvas
There's been a growing number of creepy incidents at Walt Disney World. People have been smuggling in their loved ones' remains and sprinkling the ashes on their favorite rides. It's actually become a big problem. I've been enjoying taking more pics with my cell phone. This one is from a television ad for the theme park.
I started this collage with a belly full of food that these guys probably just laugh at.
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For the music I used mainly the fragments themselves-bubble wrap, plastic bags, etc,- plus some traditional instruments.
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Found this polaroid on the branch of a tree in Harlem. Cheered me right up.
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This is a photo of an advertisement, something I've always enjoyed doing. A must-see show is "Richard Prince: Spiritual America." He did a Marlboro cowboy Ad series, (and many others). This highly anticipated survey features a wealth of Prince's photos, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the last thirty years. A fun filled show for all ages. It's at the Guggenheim till January 9.
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This a long exposure of the summer sky looking northeast. The Summer Constellations are the 17 constellations that fall between June and August. Some of the more famous ones are part of this group, including Sagittarius, Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquarius. This was taken from Long Island.
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The baiji, a freshwater dolphin known as the "goddess of the Yangtze" is extinct, scientists said this week. The latest search of the river produced no sightings of the species, which lived in the Yangtze for 20 million years. The demise is blamed on overfishing, and the construction of the Three Rivers Dam, the largest hydroelectric river dam in the world, and 5 times the size of the Hoover.
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I would hope that Mattise would love this effort. maybe not.
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I'm no illusionist, but as you other photographers know, there are some shots that are hard to resist. This is one of those.
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Some of the new cruise ships have boxing rings, state of the art movie theaters, 9 hole mini golf courses, full sized basketball courts, inline skating and rock climbing walls. This short features "the disco."
Comments (0) - Link to this post | TrackBacks (0)This is the first of 2 shorts aboard a cruise ship.
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These bears seem to be the poster animals for a warming climate. These big critters can swim 200 miles in a day if they've strayed too far from the mainland. Graceful and resilient, they are the biggest of what scientists call a determinate species, that is, other life forms that could determine our future. Generally frogs, birds and plants are in this catagory.
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This is a photo from a "Walk Around The Block" series. The idea is to simply walk around your block and find images that inspire you. Once is enough.
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The painter Kerry suggested I post the entire animal series for your viewing pleasure.
The leading cause of vertebrate declines is human destruction of old growth forests, wetlands, chaparral, and other rich habitats. Worldwide, over two-thirds of the earth's habitable land surface has been significantly disturbed by human activities. Nearly half of the world's 233 primate species are threatened, largely because of their dependence on large expanses of tropical forest, a habitat under siege around the globe. In hotspots of forest loss, such as Madagascar, the Atlantic rainforest of eastern Brazil, and Southeast Asia, roughly 70 percent of primate species face extinction.
many of these bears will be gone in our lifetime. With the threat of oil and warming the planet holds fewer places for big mammals. Most Americans don't realize that we're in a period of mass extinction.
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I recently finished a series of northern animal paintings, all for Christmas presents.
Each are about 12"x16" oil on board. People always say that it's hard to make homemade gifts, and it is, I struggle alot with painting myself. But with persistance and a simple idea they are extraordinary and often more memorable.
This is an autumn creek in Pennsylvania.
This old coot is always talking about the terror in men-the terror to live, the terror to die. I asked him where all his evil comes from and he simply said "Deep in the earth."
Happy Halloween and sorry about the nightmares.
Nuclear power seems to be spreading. This painting was hard to complete. I'll probably destroy it for my own well being.
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Cats have been involuntarily involved in my art as long as I can remember.
Mysterious and loyal, they move complete but unsatisfied.
a photo from a $.99 store. I've always thought that these places were worth something pictorially.
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This is a painting from an ongoing suburbia series. This is an earlier one. Lately I've been interested in entertainment, like trampolines, playgrounds or swimming pools.
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This painting is from a suburbia series. They're bushes with snow on a "front yard" next to the driveway of a house in Pittsburgh. The house is up there, but not in the picture. To me, these manicured shrubs are a wonderful example of how each person has their own way of bringing a little nature into their lives.
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There's a feeling of comfort and contempt in this image. Mainly because instead of thinking, most people are just rearranging their prejudices.
This is an oil painting inspired from an advertisement. I was inspired by the complexity of chrome reflections and the humor in the sounds of those horns.
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Cheerios has a bee, Frosted Flakes and Exxon, a tiger. Hostess has a vulture and racoon, Mastercard, a zebra, Geico, a gecko, and you gotta love that Chucky Cheese rat. But it's the stallion that seems to speak to young men specifically, seducing them to work hard and drive fast with a smoke dangling.
These pictures were taken in Greece, inspired by the artist Richard Prince.
With the help of Photoshop, I've been transforming some photos and doing paintings of them. This one is 24"x 36".
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These pictures are competitions, visual contests between man and nature. I've been seeking these "fights" lately. They're everywhere.
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I've been looking for abstract images to paint or draw and lately I've focused on explosions. As awful as they are, explosions are as common as haircuts. I've been trying to capture the physiology of an explosion and embrace it as a fact of this living.
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I've been looking at images of my parents lately, trying to figure out a possible film or photo project.
I think it's imperative that artists explore the subject of family no matter how corny or banal it may seem.
The first of our teachers, our folks are the complex beginning. For many of us it's a place far away or a terrrible trudge to even think about.
This picture really had my attention for some time. I guess it was the blue man made shape against the green bush. But truly it's all about getting a burger or two at a fair price.
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Fast food joints are a major excitement for me when I go to shoot. This picture is a simple landscape bush surrounding an Arbys in eastern Pennsylvania.
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This pic is from a summer of commercial salmon fishing in Alaska. The dogs were the most dramatic.
These pictures are from a Mexico excursion, a story for the NY Daily News. And what a marvelous country. These pics are unrelated to the story. I bought a new camera for this odyssey and had lots of fun trying it out.
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I was inspired by Kerry's New Suffolk Road post, (grand little paintings), and wanted to post a special place of my own. I've spent a few summers in Alaska and this glacier is very accesible near the town of Juneau. And if the light is good you can get some nice shots of these traveling bergs.
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Been fascinated with flies for some time now. Such low lifes. But in their minds, death and decay is so irresistible.
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This is a found photograph I picked up on a curb in Long Island City. Good condition too.
We get a free glimpse of lost progeny. Or at least a lost photograph. I was drawn to this one because the girl looks so undecided.
I've been strolling Brooklyn for street shots. Some days are good, but often you just stroll and nothing inspires. This is from one of those days.
this one is for a brighter war.
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An image as familiar as hamburgers. Many childhoods hovered around guns and fake killing friends.
Mine did. This was drawn from a decal for your car.
I would put one of these on my lawn.
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pa took this one, right before Bighead gave him an awful haircut. BOO!
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These drawings were inspired by necessary items we never think about. Like wine glasses and knives. Familiar and banal, they can be fun things to draw. Also, it's hard not to be shaken by our energy crisis. Maybe in the future we'll all have a personal gas can/energy account to look after.
Images of dead sharks always shake me.
It's as if someone cut off one of my legs.
To prevent voluminous grinding-great for married people. Took the image from an ad you've probably seen. Mouths are just as alive as the eyes.
Click on the snowy image above to watch this scary short about man vs. nature. As the cooler weather approaches, watch what you put on your head.
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Farmers use these to prevent creekbank erosion. In a short time, a high volume of cattle can sog up a landscape, creating giant unwanted puddles and even choke waterways as they drink and cool off. They are made of coconut hair and jute.
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