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About the Artist

ARTISTS' STATEMENTS

Intelligence; Intuition; Spirit.
Nick Thabit

Get your point across no matter what the cost.
Dr. John

I LOVE YOU IGNATZ
Krazy Kat


MY WORKING PRACTICE

I usually begin by just putting paint on the canvas, developing a ground; deep, warm color; a feeling within that. The ground can subtly influence the following picture. Over time gestures become informed, areas become defined, and sometimes figures emerge from the ground. A concept can develop and be worked out, or a state of consciousness (invisible in and of itself) can be alluded to, gently; tweaking the composition/surface, until...

Diebenkorn gave me the courage to work in the improvisatory way I do now; before that the monumentality and heroism of the New York School left me no option but to attack the canvas with 100% egoic savagery. Thanks, guys.

In working I feel as if I am in a two-way communication with the universe, speaking, listening. If I am simpatico enough to shut up and let it speak, good enough; if not, it's just me and my prosaic (archaic?) self. The concept of “self” has become suspicious to me as well. We are interconnected-at what point do our edges blur into everything else's?

How to finish? It is my practice never to finish a picture, I leave that to the viewer.

Then I sign it.

 
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India: Coal Pickers

2006
acrylic on canvas w/ oil varnish
77 cm x 61 cm (approx.)

Varanasi

2006
oil on canvas
77 cm x 61 cm (approx.)

Hindus go there to die; and are we also born there?

Go

2006
acrylic on paper
55 x 75 cm

The power of being up to the speed of life, of light, of New York, of consciousness-and the impossibility.

Composers

2007
60x50 cm

Narcissus

2007
130 x 115 cm

Narcissus

Speechless

2007
acrylic on canvas
130 x 110

Conjuress

2007
75 x 100 cm

Conjuress

Attunement

2007
acrylic on canvas
90 x 50 cm

LMDC

2007
acrylic on canvas
130 x 230 cm

LMDC

Path

2007
acrylic on canvas
90 x 110 cm

Path

Jesus In The Desert

2008
20 x 20 cm

The Three Eyes

2008
30 x 42 cm

Jasper Johns

2008
25 x 20 cm

A Ship For Han

2008
30 x 42 cm

Looking Back

2008
30 x 45

Herbert Huncke

2008
acrylic on canvas
30 x 40

Herbert Huncke

Appreciation of Nature

2008
acrylic on canvas
25 x 35 cm

Appreciation of Nature

Illusion at the Site of Mind: Coney Island

2008
acrylic on canvas
50 x 60 cm

Illusion at the Site of Mind: Coney Island

Skylights

2008
acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm

Imagining Houses

2008
acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm

 
Education and biography
Education: Self-taught

Group Exhibitions

2007
Regrouping

2006
Winter Open Studios,
Storefront Artist Project, Pittsburgh, MA
Forty Shades of Green, Lichtenstein Center, Pittsburgh, MA
Group Exhibition, The Studio at Thomas Colt House, Pittsburgh, MA

2005
Clothesline Exhibition, Guild Hall, Easthampton, NY
Affordable Art Show, Object Image Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY

2004
Clothesline Exhibition, Guild Hall, Easthampton, NY

Summer Show, Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2003
Realistic Thoughts, The Artist's Gallery, Chelsea, NY

2002
New York City AIDS Housing Network Auction, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY

Astoria Arts Festival, Athens Square, Astoria, NY

2001
X-treme X-teriors, Gallery X, Harlem, NY

2000
Koridor, Asia Minor Carpet, New York, NY

X-treme X-teriors, Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, NY

1999
X-treme X-teriors, Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, NY

Collections

Flagler Palm Coast Arts Center, Palm Coast, FL
Harlem Hospital, New York, NY
Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Private collections


Arts Organizations

Harlem Biennale Committee, 1999-2003; focused on organization and development of an international contemporary art festival in Harlem, NY


Writings

Toots Magsino; New Work, catalogue essay, Intaglio and Oil, Philippine Center, New York, NY, February, 2001
Images of Nature, Keiko Miyamori, catalogue essay, Images of Nature, Gallery X, Harlem, NY, 2000


 
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E-mail: realself@hotmail.com
 
Website:  paintedearth.net
 
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