New drawings

I started getting back into doing physical drawings here are some examples from a recent series.

Fine Artist of the Month: Linked Concrete Poem for Gordon Matta-Clark

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 made a linked concrete poem for former NYC Fine Artist, Gordon Matta-Clark

Conical Intersect Bronx Floors                   19    43
Splitting: Four Corners Splitting                     19       75
Untitled (Tree Forms) Three Films:                   19             73
Fire Child, Fresh Kill, Day's End Untitled              19              72
(Energy Tree) New York City, from the project           19                   73
Wallspaper Bingo Food Fake Estates Office Baroque     19                       77
City Slivers TheWall Tree Dance Substrait Photoglyphs      19                            78

Free, unlimited digital drawing give-a-way to New York City area residents in memorial of WTC.

In memory of September 11th, I am giving away an unlimited batch of unique, digital drawings to all those with a current New York address and/or those who lived in New York State on September 11, 2001. This give-a-way will last for one week only (through next Wednesday, September 18, 2013)

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... and those who already own a large digital drawing, are entitled to a small or large drawing.

Just email me here, and please include your name and New York postal address. As stated in an earlier post: I will NEVER sell, lend, trade, share, give out any information sent to me.

Below is a picture I took yesterday of the downtown area of NYC from the Manhattan bridge.

 

Safety stop v3

Last year I started posting about taking a breaks from the usual posts. Here are some pictures from a recent trip to Lewes, Delaware.

Work in progress from The Return/ ... /Enter Series: Cut and Restore Rope - Enter

Below is a work in progress, Cut and Restore Rope - Enter, from the series of work, The Return/Pledge/Turn/Prestige/Enter, or for short "The Return/ ... /Enter" which was begun in 2009. Like I said many times before it stemmed out of the Parallel Panels body of work. For each of the 5 installations in the series, the requirements are: that all are squares (4 sides equal), there are 4 panels in each installation, there are 4 repeated elements inside each panel, all create a system which shifts, morphs, all are painted with oil paints or have them incorporated in some way, are on on different base medium (canvas, wood, linen, etc...), all transform in various ways in order to correspond to a panel or panels within each in the group, as well as other requirements. Each installation corresponds to each of the other installations and changes graphically and texturally, thus painterly throughout the entire series.

The title of the series is an analogy to the basic elements of all fine art experiences and it is an extension of the 3 basic segments of all magic performances: Pledge, Turn, and Prestige.

I created 2 of the installations in 2009, Substitution Trunk - Return,  Linking Rings - Pledge; I created Cups and Balls - Turn, this year, 2011; and I should complete the series this year, 2013, with the final 2 installations: Chen Lee Water Suspension - Prestige and Cut and Restore Rope - Enter.

See earlier posts on the series for more information and documentation.

Robert J. DuBois RIP

Not really a posting this week in remembrance of my grandfather. He died yesterday. He was 93 and had been in an assisted living facility for some time. I often think how lucky I was to have known him for so long.

He lived in Pennsylvania. He studied and worked as a chemical engineer. He had a passion for collecting stamps (particularly Cinderella stamps); 33, 45 and 78 rpm vinyl records and loved random bits of world trivia. He was a fantastic harmonica player and played for my son, a few months ago. He also made an extensive catalog of Olympic Label stamps.

During his retirement years he volunteered at a local food pantry, Meals on Wheels and the Salvation Army.

I will always remember a special trip I had with him alone: he took me to a stamp show at Madison Square Garden. I was pretty young, and wasn't particularly into stamps. It was so much fun spending the day with him: taking the Long Island Rail Road train and spending the day in New York City. He even bought me a gift in Penn Station on the way home.

He is survived by his wife, 4 children, 6 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.

Update: This post is counting as my Fine Artist of the Month month post even though it doesn't fit the usually subject matter or criteria.

Work in progress from The Return/ ... /Enter Series: Chen Lee Water Suspension - Prestige

Below is a work in progress, Chen Lee Water Suspension - Prestige, from the series of work, The Return/Pledge/Turn/Prestige/Enter, or for short "The Return/ ... /Enter" which was begun in 2009. Like I said before it stemmed out of the Parallel Panels body of work. For each of the 5 installations in the series, the requirements are: that all are squares (4 sides equal), there are 4 panels in each installation, there are 4 repeated elements inside each panel, all create a system which shifts, morphs, all are painted with oil paints or have them incorporated in some way, are on on different base medium (canvas, wood, linen, etc...), all transform in various ways in order to correspond to a panel or panels within each in the group, as well as other requirements. Each installation corresponds to each of the other installations and changes graphically and texturally, thus painterly throughout the entire series.

The title of the series is an analogy to the basic elements of all fine art experiences and it is an extension of the 3 basic segments of all magic performances: Pledge, Turn, and Prestige.

I created 2 of the installations in 2009, Substitution Trunk - Return,  Linking Rings - Pledge; I created Cups and Balls - Turn, this year, 2011; and I should complete the series this year (2013) with the final 2 installations.

See earlier posts on the series for more information and documentation.