August 21, 2017
CITE-SEEING
A preview of the IOI OOI New Primitives exhibition installation at BoxHeart opening this week! Also showing are William DeBernardi and Dale Huffman on the main floor. DeBernardi’s oil paintings capture unsuspecting people in everyday situations: texting, paying a parking meter, visiting a museum and more. In their examination of what’s in front of them (snapped with cell phone pics!), DeBernardi’s subjects ...
August 13, 2017
PRIMITIVES PREFIGURE LIBERTY
My new show, IOI OOI New Primitives, prefigures liberty–Liberty Avenue that is–at BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh PA from August 22 to September 22, 2017! The Exhibition is a collection of hand -painted and -folded, gampi-paper modern artifacts inspired by the early expressions of primitive man and subsequent invention of art. For me, personally, this is the work that has developed my understanding of form and ...
January 24, 2017
DORA’S EXPLORER
Anyone familiar with Pablo Picasso knows that the artist had many liaisons, with many women, which inspired his many, artistic periods. One muse, Dora Maar–whom Picasso first spied at the celebrated Parisian café Les Deux Magots playing the knife game in gloved hands–was to be the most thought-provoking to, yet badly treated by, the well-known lover. For Picasso, Marr was fecund in intellect and ideas. It was Marr who ...
January 12, 2017
MAKING A SPLASH
Chrissy Angliker makes a splash with a splatter and a slop, a stroke and a smear, using spoonfuls of confectionery-coloured acrylics on completed canvases that look more like Wayne Thiebaud’s palette tray than his paintings. For her 2015 body of work, Angliker has moved from the previous “goopy” portraits and “rain-washed” scenes toward exploiting the impasto mark-making in depicting mobs at the beach–sunning, ...
November 29, 2016
THE VIEW WITHIN
Meta-Chroma is about the evolution of primitive man identifying as author, as artist, when expression–by way of pattern, shape, and colour–is attributed to communication. The body of work, my first in “technique colour,” debuts at L.A. Pai Gallery this week; officially launching, December 8, 2016. A very big thank-you to L.A. Pai in making way for presentation (!) within ...
