My part/play for Party for Playgrounds - Stating the States

Recently, I donated a drawing to the benefit silent auction, Party for Playgrounds, for children's playgrounds in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA. The auction will be held this coming Friday, June 3rd from 7-10pm. Sadly, I cannot make it to the auction due to other commitments. It will be a great event and, of course, the cause is of the utmost importance.

"Stating the States", the drawing in the auction, is one of only a few physical paper drawings I plan to produce this year. It uses a new technique I developed with acrylic glow in the dark paint. Below are a few images of it in various lighting states.

Fine Artist of the Month: Painting Meticulous Chemistry: A linked poem for Allen Higbee

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings about Fine Artists who have worked, or are primarily working, in the NYC area. This month I write a "linked poem" for the late, Allen Higbee (RIP).

Painting Meticulous Chemistry

The building blocks of paint.

The folding of magazine photography.

To light stars of the canvased sky

To carve the foreign with respect.

There in the battlefields of time.

There in Lowery Field's space.

Touching the matter of Dramatics and Realism.

Touching the Mana of wood and paint.

This New Jersey.

This Man.

For more information please check out the new book edited by Brian Higbee:
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - The Paintings and Sculptures of Allen Higbee 1971-2010

To all those who wrote in about the book having the wrong link, thanks again. It is linked correctly now.

Free digital drawing to the first 8 people who contact me.

You may have noticed something different in the numbers here, keep watching.

That's right, I am giving away another batch of small, unique, digital drawings.

Do you have questions about the drawings? Why would I give away a work of Fine Art that I truly believe in? Read here.

For those who already have a small drawing, you are entitled to upgrade your participation in the project: Now you will receive a large digital drawing.

So how do you get in on all this action? Just email me here, and please include your name and postal address. As stated in an earlier post: I will NEVER sell, lend, trade, give out any information sent to me.

Oceans and Parks - new light work

I am in the process of producing a new light installation for the mysterious group show in Brooklyn. See below for documentation/images of studio experiments related to the show.

Oceans and Parks

I am curating and organizing a unique Fine Art exhibition in June 2011, located in Brooklyn NY, US of A. I can not discuss any other details of the exhibition here. If you are interested in participating as a Fine Artist or experiencing this mysterious project, please e-mail me (studio@benknight.net). I'd be excited and happy to share all information with you by that means.