Friday, January 29, 2010

Zone

I spent an hour painting in my new studio tonight.  It felt like five minutes.  Just sayin'

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Lucky for Me, Snow Puts the Kibosh on My Plans

So - included in my year of making art is also the intent to consume as much art as possible.  Museums.  Galleries.  Websites.  Sculpture gardens.  Public art.  Books.  I intend to eat it all up wherever I can find it. 

Today was going to be a museum day... a leisurely train ride in to Manhattan and then to museum hopping, on a planned day off from work (although it feels like I'm playing hooky when I take a day off).  But, oh yeah... its Winter!  And this art lover doesn't travel when it snows - that's just how I roll.  So the three inches of white stuff on the ground this morning with more falling on top of it really squelched my plans.  But alas - my studio needs configuring, so I've been gifted from the snow gods the perfect opportunity to get my act in gear and make my studio workable. 

For those of you who've been in my home, you'll fondly recall "The Annex" - the catch-all room off the kitchen - a sort of "never never land" for everything in the house we didn't know what else to do with.  It was a closet, a storage area, a staging area and a trash bin all rolled up in to one.  Well, when today's magic is over.  it shall be my studio.  Wish me luck!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Dia:Beacon Shuffle

I had plans yesterday - two sets of them.  They were both canceled because of forces greater than myself.  "What to do on an impromptu day to myself?", I asked.  I know - go visit my beloved Richard Serra sculptures over in Beacon... a sure thing to lift the spirits and get the creative juices flowing.   I was the first visitor through the doors and for a while, felt like I had the enormous renovated warehouse all to myself, which, as it turned out, was exactly what I needed to enable me to really "see" the art.


Imi Knoebel, 24 Colors - for Blinky, 1977. Photo: Bill Jacobson.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Pink Oval Head on Black Cat Body

Carol had this thing for cats.  It was un-natural.  It was bad luck to count.  I think she'd wished she was a cat.


6"x6" Gesso and Oil Bar on Canvas Paper

Friday, January 15, 2010

You Can't Imagine What It Was Like

On July 15, 2008, my sister died. As with the passing of anyone who is loved by someone else, there were a lot of circumstances and arrangements and emotions to think about and to feel and to carry out. Cleaning out her apartment was no easy chore.

This is the beginning of a series related to the themes of her life, especially concerning the numbers 1, 111 and 1,111 and how I, as her "little sister" perceived them.


















9"x12" Oil Stick and Graphite on Gessoed Paper