Sometimes artists have muses, I am no exception. Muses are often their source of inspiration. Muses give the artist a sense of passion about something. My muses are words – and the concepts they conjure up for me. Words never cease to inspire me which is why I call myself a conceptual artist and why I write a blog and about beautiful moments in the day.
Posted on February 21 2020
Recently I visited the Milwaukee Art Museum. Whenever I visit an art museum I head straight for the contemporary section to check out what is up, what is new, and to study what has been done in the past. I love the fact that the smaller museums have huge collections that they rotate periodically. During this ...
Posted on February 16 2020
Looking Seeing Infinite sea never Ends Bleeds into sky never Ends Sea rolls into Shore Breaks Dies in Rolls back To infinity People like the sea and sky Rolling breaking Returning Others build walls – land Break/end The fluid forever
Posted on February 12 2020
For my journey in Costa Rica this year I brought paper I have never used. Smooth very fine 300#. It’s a very tough paper to paint on. Extremely challenging. It’s very difficult to get something I can call “finished.” This piece, “Beach Sand,” has about twenty layers of paint on it. There’s a lot of ...
Posted on February 10 2020
This is not Wall Art What is the difference between Art and Wall Art? I should know, I used to sell Wall Art. It was a chapter in my artistic journey where I learned how to paint and how to become a full time professional artist. During that time, I sold Wall Art to large department stores like ...
Posted on January 09 2020
Freedom: “Noun. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.” – Oxford Dictionary As an individual, I have dreams. We all do. We have big dreams, little dreams, and impossible dreams. Dreams drive us, define us, and defy us. You can spend a lifetime striving, hoping, and building your ...
Posted on January 08 2020
As I watched the late evening stars fade into the morning sky, a morning dove approached the bird feeders that I had just filled. Cautious, watching other birds fly in, grab their morning seeds and fly away, the dove waited for her turn. Then, when all was clear, she approached slowly, cautiously, flying vertically to ...
Posted on December 30 2019
If you have visited Art Basel Miami and the satellite fairs, you may have experienced “Art Overload.” Aisle after aisle, row after row, tent after tent, and gallery after gallery, I found myself wondering, “All this art, all these galleries, all these artists, how does any one of them survive?” You know the routine, if you ...
Posted on December 23 2019
While walking through an Exhibition at Art Miami Week during Art Basel, I was drawn to a booth with a partially unrolled canvas hanging from the top of the booth wall. Upon closer investigation I discovered an artist had painted the entire roll of canvas and it was being sold by the foot, by ...
Posted on December 21 2019
“A banana is worth more than us’ : Maurizio Cattelan’s $120k fruit art has sparked an uprising among Miami’s overpaid janitors” – Art World Buyers of Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 Banana defend the work as ‘the unicorn of the art world,’ comparing it to Warhol’s soup cans” – Art World Art is about concepts and ideas. I ...
Posted on December 20 2019
Banana Part I Have you heard about the banana duct taped to the wall at Art Basel? Yes, a banana was duct taped to the wall. While at Basel, my daughter and I became one of the many in a crowd of folks who stood in line to have our picture taken with the banana. Yup, ...
Posted on December 03 2019
Art needs to reveal something alive. Art needs to fertilize the imagination. The imagination feeds the soul. The soul asks questions, discovers, and explores. Art, the process of creating, is life itself.
Posted on December 02 2019
America is about freedom. America is about independence. America is about individualism. America is about not allowing others to do for you what you can do for yourself. So how ever did the notion of freedom become linked with not figuring things out by yourself? The notion of being an artist is all about the freedom ...
Posted on December 01 2019
In looking for the next stand out movement to write about in the art history books, many art historians have latched on to the concept of a postmodern movement. And, they have defined that postmodern movement as different from modernism, mainly though collective designs and collaborations of an art work. They have taken the notion ...
Posted on November 30 2019
No wonder the value of art has changed. No wonder there have been art industries popping up all over. How can anyone be sure what they are buying is a “real work of art?” First, you need to ask the question, “What is a real work of art?” If you can’t answer that question, or if ...
Posted on November 29 2019
Has the history of art stalled? For as long as I can remember art history has moved the progress dial forward, challenging the historical assumptions linked to an art object, like method, media used, techniques, content, context and concept. It challenged the how, what and where. That has changed. When looking at the 1000’s upon 1000’s ...
Posted on November 28 2019
At first glimpse, you know immediately it’s a work of real art. And you are consumed with the desire to see more real art. It is original and unique. No more print shopping, no more trend shopping and no more color coordinating, those are no longer an option. Junk art, that is, trend shopping, print ...
Posted on November 27 2019
Standing in a crowd waiting for my vende vanilla latte from Starbucks to be made, I noticed there was another short person standing next to me. People watching is something I really enjoy when I am in a situation like this. There was a very cute short person (female) standing next to me. When she ...
Posted on November 26 2019
How do I speak in my work? My visual vocabulary didn’t happen all at once. The visual icons happened in spite of me. When they appear for the first time in my work, I recognize them and I nurture them. I allow them to grow and form. They grow, they change, they disappear and they ...
