“Secret Narratives”

Announcing my 2010 solo exhibit at Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, Texas "Secret Narratives" May 1 - 29, 2010 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 1, 6-8 pm Paintings, like plays, require audiences to complete them. The painter sets the stage and dresses the characters. In return, each audience member deciphers a different story in the embedded and…

New Gallery and New Paintings

I'm very proud to announce that my works will now be available at the Meyer Gallery in Park City, Utah  (in addition to Meyer East Gallery in Santa Fe and Wally Workman Gallery in Austin). They are lovely people over there and I look forward to working with them.  I sent them four new paintings…

Group Show: “FEAST”

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The feasting continues as I am featured in a group show called "Feast" at Wally Workman in Austin, Texas. I sent two paintings for inclusion and "Cherry Picker" sold immediately. "Peaches" is still available. Please go see the opening, or better yet join them for dinner, if in…

“La Diva”

Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore, non feci mai male ad anima viva! / I lived for my art, I lived for love, I never did harm to a living soul! - from Puccini's Tosca I've collected four youtube videos of spectacular divas (Caballe, Callas, Price, Mattila) singing "Vissi d'arte" on my tumblr here. Coincidentally two of the divas are…

“Woman with Hedgehog”

She only cared for the sea when it was lashed to fury by the storm, and for verdure when it served as a background to a ruin. Everything must needs minister to her personal longings, as it were, and she thrust aside as of no account whatever everything that did not immediately contribute to stir…

The Conspirators: The Artist and Her Beastly Muse

There is a monkey whispering in my ear. Is it a devil or angel, perhaps an alter ego planning dark or brilliant deeds? It's nothing but a conspiring hairy muse. Shakespeare certainly thought it rascally, chiding the idle and absent muse in Sonnet 100. SONNET 100 by William Shakespeare Where art thou Muse that thou…