November 2012 Blog Posts (5)

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/

The Dust Bowl, a Ken Burns film, premieres November 18-19, 8-10 P.M. ET on PBS. 

The film "chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history..." beautiful photography and seldom seen movie footage

This is especially interesting to me because I grew up in Kansas which is one of the principal locations where this occurred.  Eerie dust storms were still happening…

    My drawings and paintings combine war machines with the human image to portray primitive feelings and sexuality, inner memory, desire and conflict. I want to describe the tortures of denial and the feeling of diminishment that exists for both sexes in this period of perpetual war. The pairing of the elegant with the brooding, and the feminine with the masculine are made real through the physicality of paint and the performance of line.

    I control the raw opacity and…

Painting a scarf Floral Dream in Sky Blue and Ocher:…

Inspiration is fleeting, yet persistant. On realism, at times I attempt to paint what I see, but my emotions interfere. On the abstract, at times I attempt to paint in a more abstract vein but reality sets in. So it seems that we can only paint what we paint and accept the outcome.

Through Lots Little Things Art Gallery I was able to show a few of my works at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum's Art Hop venue.

After this I am showing my new Chicago Skyline painting at the gallery as of 11-3-12.