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The Dark Work

My work had a dramatic change for a while in the months after 9/11.  Like everyone, my worldview shifted that day and this was reflected in my work.   It became darker in appearance and tone,  a bit...

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Stranger In a Strange Land

Well, it’s the day after Christmas and today I’m starting a five day stint, filling in for owner Linda Gardner at the West End Gallery.  It’s something I haven’t done for well over a decade and as the...

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Continuing Upward

This is a piece from 2002 called Continuing Upward.  It’s a 10″ by 16″ image on paper and is from has been called my dark work, which was painted over a dark base.  Despite the name given to this work,...

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The Dark Rise

This was a case of a painting dictating what is was to be, against my efforts to make it otherwise.   This new 24″ by 24″ canvas grew slowly and once I was painting  in the sky I kept telling myself...

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Presentation

This is a painting of mine from a number of  years back, a 16″ by 20″ canvas titled With All Possibility.  For the past several years it has hung in a back room of my studio but has remained a favorite...

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Soft Dream of Night

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. –Henry David Thoreau...

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Dark Work

I am pretty excited to include a small group of older paintings in my upcoming show, Alchemy, which opens November 16th at the Kada Gallery.  The group consists of four paintings from 2002, all painted...

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Filling In the Gaps

Peaceful Tidings- GC Myers My show, Layers, at the West End Gallery hangs for another two weeks, until August 29th.  It has been a very good show thus far with many of the paintings having found new...

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“Home+Land” + Gallery Talk + Prize

This coming Saturday, August 1, I will be giving a Gallery Talk at the West End Gallery in support of my current show, Home+Land, that is hanging there.  It starts at 1 PM and, as many of you who...

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October Sky

This is a new painting that I have been working on recently.  It’s a 24″ by 24″ canvas that has a working title of October Sky.  It has nothing to do with the movie of that title — the one about how...

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The Dark Work/Redux

I wasn’t planning on featuring another older blog post.   But in recent days I have realized that some of the struggles I am going through in the studio are very similar to those I experienced in the...

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Stranger in a Strange Land, Again

 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. –Exodus 2:22 **************** I have been writing recently about some of the orphans,...

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Night Blossom

I was recently going through some old work and came across some paintings from 2002 that had slipped my mind. There were several done in the same style as the piece shown here, Night Blossom, with...

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Sleepwalk

******************************* My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‘light’ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist,...

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Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

******************** Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving Ah, but then you know it’s time for them to go But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving I do not count the time...

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Gershom

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. –Exodus 2:22 I was looking at the piece above early this morning. It’s been with me for a...

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