Tuesday, October 25, 2011

interiors


                    how this bunch of paintings came about-

my studio space where i lived on the sly (it had a sink and i had a thin red futon which i rolled up and sat on while i painted) was slated for demolition or the building was being renovated so i needed a new space or spaces. i set off to look with several other painters and we had the luck of finding an older couple who had a building they wanted us to use and not only were we going to have our own bedrooms but upstairs there was an interior, windowless room that was none the less bright with peeling yellow ochre paint.

in another life there was a time when my son let me read some time life art books to him. he liked the pictures and the dreadful prose put him to sleep after a page or so. we started out with watteau who doesn’t figure in this show, then moved on to picasso who then had a big show at the Seattle Art Museum which we visited several times, not without some behavior that brought the disapprobation of the guards.


the hall 21x21cm (sold)

pom pom 21x21 (sold)

ochre room 21x21cm

yellow room 21x21 (sold)

umber room 13x21cm (sold)

lucia underground 13x21cm

madeline 42x42cm

sheherazade 34x34cm

anne marie 21x21


      

Thursday, September 1, 2011

lucia underground

lucia is wary of strangers, even ones she has known for years. 13x21cm

Sunday, August 21, 2011

how to attract russian guards at the museum

                                                       umber room 13x21cm     if you lean against the wall in the museum an unseen eye will see you and an unheard voice will tell a beautiful russian to go to this room and tell you to stop it. (sold)



Friday, July 29, 2011

day and night

yellow room
i am pretty sure this is what it looked like in the early twentieth century. they hadn’t invented shoes yet. 21x21cm (sold)

The nineteenth century
If you go back a few years before that they still didn’t have shoes but you couldn’t notice because they didn’t have electric lights. 21x21cm (sold)

Monday, May 2, 2011

neo cubist drawerings

ramosis

danica

a nap

tom foolering

madeline

ursula with phone numbers

baby with a hat

megan

captain dave

suspicion