wordpress it is!

new site...here

death of a disco dancer

ok, so I have killed my "new" website. I am working on something new and FREE...maybe wordpress...

as soon as I know more I will let you know!

in the meantime, if you wan to see some work you can go here!

my new website

here

former student... Curtis Mann

has a SOLO exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago . February 7 - March 1, 2009



Curtis Mann appropriates and manipulates found photographs to create new photographs. After re-shooting and enlarging the found image, he then physically erases portions of it through a bleaching process so that only faint traces of the original remain, replaced with an ambiguous emptiness. Other portions are painted with a varnish to resist the bleach and are left intact. Through this subtractive and additive process, Mann expands the boundaries of the medium of photography, while at the same time reflects on the fragility of the photographic image as a source of information. Curtis Mann received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College, Chicago, in 2008.

“Vignette”

8.5" x 5.5" acrylic and enamel on cold press watercolor paper

back with a new batch...

10" x 10" enamel, resin, and acrylic on OSB

weston link

cilck HERE for images from my Weston show

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It’s been a while…

this is the newest...12" x 32" 2 panel enamel and resin on mdf

back to painting

enamel on acrylic . . .

I have been thinking of ways to escape from my beloved resin. its so easy to use it to solve problems. the acrylic seems like a natural switch. its hard to tell in the photo but the "whites" on the top portion of the work is sightly diffrent...one warmer, yellower, creamier, the other cooler, bluer.

the bottoms have slight shifts from light, almost white, blue to light, almost white, violet

i dont know...

lately...this has been fun, better than going in the furnace I call the studio...

landscape paperweight

my buddy and AWESOME painter Douglas Witmer had a band in high school called "landscape paperweight", after almost 20 years later they got back together to play in Philadelphia. This is there cover of New Order's (one of my absolute of all time!) "Love Vigilantes".



what is it about everyone revisiting their past?...it's kind of nice to see where we come from and what makes us who we are