October 2009 - Solo show at Eagle Nest Gallery in the Nazareth, PA High School. A retrospective from the Millennium through the Now.
November 2009 - Solo show at Gallery 31 North, Glen Gardner, NJ. Still in the working stages but hopefully all new works.
Spring 2010 - Solo show at Connexions Gallery, Easton PA. This will be monotypes created from my own photography.
A list of Galleries is at the bottom of this page. click on any image below to enlarge it
"Relief In Blue" - Monotype created from original photograph - available at Connexions Gallery Easton PA
"A Way In" - Monotype created from original photograph
"No Way" - Monotype created from original photograph
"travelin' on, travelin' on home" (left)
"travelin' on, travelin' on home" (right)
Like the building blocks of life and death, my artwork is built upon the lives of people and places once here, but now long gone. Photos of lives lived, loved, or alone, cataloged for a memory external to the one held in their minds, and after successive generations, discarded, trashed, dumped, or to be sold as excess ephemera, forgotten, unneeded, or simply uninterested as successive generations deal with their own lives and the memories of more current familia and friends, leaving past generations to fade away, fade from life, fade from memory, fade from the light. Until I happen along.
"my way, find I; touch see hear paint"
The discards of people's lives have always fascinated me, especially these photographic, printed, histories of their own past. At one time someone somewhere thought enough of them to catalog their place in time. And now that time is gone, just as our own time is gone after the moment we've lived it. So I happen upon a face, a moment, a situation, that catches my eye or tugs at my soul, or revives a memory of my own, and I acquire this snapshot-in-time in order to free it from its heretofore demise from all memory, from all light, from existence itself.
"red chairs at night, diner's delight"
For my artwork, like life, the more prodigious the soul, the many more snapshots it takes to build it. So the larger the print, the many more pieces, or blocks of life it takes to construct it. Each square is its own individual encapsulated bit of life that is needed for the complete construct of the whole; a building block of form and function, but now in the hands of a new creator, a poser, an interpreter of what once was, into a new life, new creation, new being.
"the third can add balance or weight"
As the architect of this new creation, this new life, I add color, and texture, and mood and feeling to fit my own interpretation of the precedent; to create a new, original life of my own from the flotsam found discarded on the edges of society. Respect for the souls in the picture is paramount, as I in no way wish to deter from the life once lived. As I build the new, I also create a story, visually construing bits of Will onto the paper, along with water, ink, and the occasional itinerant cat hair. I collage these snapshots and build and construct and architect until I have reached a new wholly created life, a reincarnation: similar to the original, but certainly not the same. Something never conceived, imagined, or formulated, until I set my hands upon it.
So a life has been rejoined, reborn, reincarnated for the soulful satisfaction and visual impudence of its creator.
2007 Connexions Gallery, Easton, PA Peregrination Nation - Solo Show 2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ Featured Artist 2005 Artist's Gallery, Lambertville, NJ To Tell Tall Tales - Solo Show 2005 Connexions Gallery, Easton, PA Storyteller - Solo Show 2005 Paxson Hill Farm, Bucks County, PA Art in the Garden 2004 Bridges Gallery, Harrisburg, PA Illuminations, 2-man show 2004 New York City Gay & Lesbian Center, NY 2004 Erotic Art Show 2004 Paxson Hill Farm, Bucks County, PA Art in the Garden 2003 Black Cultural Center of Lafayette College ACE Paperworks Show 2003 Paxson Hill Farm, Bucks County, PA Art in the Garden 2003 Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Erotic Art Show 2003 New York City Gay & Lesbian Center, NY 2003 Erotic Art Show
select juried & invitational shows
2008 Hunterdon Art Museum 52nd Annual National Juried Print Exhibition 2008 East Hampton, NY East Hampton Antiques Show 2007 Allentown Art Museum Cocktails & Collecting 2007 State Theater, Easton PA ACE Group Show 2007 Sidetracks Art Gallery Naked In New Hope 2006 Myhelan Cultural Arts Center Many Masters, Many Minds 2006 Gallery 31 North Ace Member's Show 2005 Gallery 31 North, NJ 2D 3D Nudes Show 2005 Hunterdon Museum of Art Annual Member's Show 2004 Lamp Art Gallery, Chicago Erotic Art Ball 2004 Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA Self Portrait Show 2004 Hunterdon Museum of Art Annual Member's Show 2003 Bernardsville, NJ 24th Annual Mountain Arts Show 2003 New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA The Fine Art of Dining 2003 New Hope, PA New Hope Arts Festival 2003 Hunterdon Museum of Art 47th Annual National Print Show
