Safety Stop v7

2 years ago I started posting about taking breaks from the usual type of posts. Here are some pictures from the past few weeks/days.

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(Auto) GraphicBio - 10

As I stated in earlier posts, I am interested in documenting all that has influenced me visual as well as conceptually. Similar to Sol LeWitt's Autobiography series, I am purely documenting my story: visually. Though my path isn't so much chronological as it is categorized. So I have decided to start an on going series of photographic images that are from my daily viewings. Below is my latest post in a series of posts that document these exchanges.

Founder Effect: new drawings - part 7

Since I have been getting such a great response over the past few blog posts with my new drawings I decided to post some more to the blog. As stated in the last few blog posts, I started getting back into doing physical drawings. These physical drawings are much different to me than the digital drawings, and require much more attentiveness to context and relations. Since this new series of drawings has taken its own style I have named them. As previously stated, the work created under this context are called, Founder Effect drawings.

Atom and Even: Pt. 0-2 - New series of digital drawings

Last week I was in a group benefit show at ABC No Rio with many artists such as Mike Estabrook, Vandana Jain, Tom Otterness, etc... I showed a new series, Atom and Even, unique digital drawings that are different than my usual format and context. These 3 drawings continue my interest in series/sequence, format and uniqueness. They all use the same base layer and 2 of the layer of drawings are unique and 1 drawings uses a combination of all 3 layers. I have really no rules about how to display them, I even welcome attaching the drawings to a monitor or TV to see them illuminated.

 

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to all. Click on the image to see it larger. Please note: As always, due to the process and thinking in my creation of this: I consider this Graphic Design, not Fine Art; therefore it is OK being in color.

Thankful for Fine Artworks

Below are some Artworks that have been at the core of my practice and artistic investigations for quite some time and some artworks that are relatively new to my understanding/awareness. I am grateful and thankful for them, they have given me joy and have shifted my perception of the world. Most are fairly modest works which fits into my aesthetic sensibilities. These works were found on various places around the internet--I host none of the images on my blog/site, these are just documented link for the purposes of reference. There is no hierarchy of importance to this list. Please note: there are many other works that I am thankful for that are not listed below.







  


 


Tender Are The Stairs To Heaven, 2004 - Yayoi Kusama

I experienced a version/edition of this work with a friend when visiting an art collectors open house 10 years ago. I am still mesmerized and in awe of it.




 

Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas), 1946–1966 - Marcel Duchamp

Maybe not his most famous, but his last work. It made me want to work on installation art and only installation art (which I feel is mostly still true)




All Memories Are Traces of Tears, 2010 - Brian Higbee

One of my favorite painting installations by Brian Higbee. The amount of different perspectives of this artwork has for psychological, perceptual, and dare I say: spiritual basis are infinite.



Meshes of Freedom, 1977 - Cildo Meireles

Maybe the ultimate grid artwork, since it is forever changing, evolving and other transformations.




From Beneath the Piano No. 7 ( from the Dust Project), 2009 - Sally Bozzuto

Galactic, musical (it's in the title), and maybe one of the greatest microcosmic investigations ever.



Two Running Violet V Forms, 1983 - Robert Irwin

His first permanent installation in California (maybe ever?). A work you truly need to visit multiple times during different times of the year to fully get it.




The Onyx of Electra, 1944 - Roberto Matta

I remember seeing this many years ago in the MoMA and it thoroughly shifting the amount of perspectives and structure you can have in a single 2D painting.



Floor with Horizontal Mirror, 1974 - Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Another work I saw in an art museum around 20 years ago that stuck in my head and I didn't really know why at the time.

Aurora - part 5 and new documentation method

I have begun a new series of digital drawings that are quite different than previous digital drawings that I have made in the past. These drawings have a different process and different aesthetic merits than previous drawings.

Below are some new documents of some early digital drawings from the Aurora series.

I have received so many requests for the color versions for this I have come up with a compromise. I have shown some of the colors in each of the documented drawings.

Aurora: a new series of digital drawings, part 4

I have begun a new series of digital drawings that are quite different than previous digital drawings that I have made in the past. These drawings have a different process and different aesthetic merits than previous drawings.

Below are some new documents of some early digital drawings from the Aurora series.

Fine Artist of the Month: Hyperlinked Note Symbols for Sally Bozzuto

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I created a collection of hyperlinked Music Notation symbols for NYC area Fine Artist, Sally Bozzuto 



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Aurora: a new series of digital drawings, part 3

I have begun a new series of digital drawings that are quite different than previous digital drawings that I have made in the past. These drawings have a different process and different aesthetic merits than previous drawings.

Below are some new documents of some early digital drawings from the Aurora series.

Aurora: a new series of digital drawings, part 2

I have begun a new series of digital drawings that are quite different than previous digital drawings that I have made in the past. These drawings have a different process and different aesthetic merits than previous drawings.

Below are some new documents of some early digital drawings from the Aurora series.

Aurora: a new series of digital drawings

I have begun a new series of digital drawings that are quite different than previous digital drawings that I have made in the past. These drawings have a different process and different aesthetic merits than previous drawings.

Below are some new documents of some early digital drawings from the Aurora series.

Founder Effect: new drawings - part 6

Since I have been getting such a great response over the past few blog posts with my new drawings I decided to post some more to the blog. As stated in the last few blog posts, I started getting back into doing physical drawings. These physical drawings are much different to me than the digital drawings, and require much more attentiveness to context and relations. Since this new series of drawings has taken its own style I have named them. As previously stated, the work created under this context are called, Founder Effect drawings.

Fine Artist of the Month: ABC's of Graffiti for Abey "Marz" Kenneth

Each month I am adding to an on-going series of writings and works about Fine Artists who work(ed), or are primarily working in the NYC area. This month I created an alphabetical, hyper linked list of Graffiti words and phrases for Abey "Marz" Kenneth.

all city
   burner
       crew
          domming
              end-to-end
                    fat cap
                         going over
                               heaven spots
                                    insides
                                        joke
                                           king
                                              legal
                                                  mop
                                                     one-liner
                                                          piece
                                                              racking
                                                                   straight letter
                                                                        throw-up
                                                                              undersides
                                                                                  vandal squad/vandal task force)
                                                                                        writer
                                                                                            x-ing out
                                                                                                 yellowing
                                                                                                      zen

Founder Effect: new drawings - part 5

Since I have been getting such a great response over the past few blog posts with my new drawings I decided to post some more to the blog. As stated in the last few blog posts, I started getting back into doing physical drawings. These physical drawings are much different to me than the digital drawings, and require much more attentiveness to context and relations. Since this new series of drawings has taken its own style I have named them. As previously stated, the work created under this context are called, Founder Effect drawings.