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San Francisco Ferry Building (Night)
80” x 30” (6.7’ x 2.5’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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Golden Gate Bridge
80” x 28” (6.7’ x 2.5’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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829 Grant Avenue (Chinatown, San Francisco)
80” x 30” (6.7’ x 2.5’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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Sausalito’s South End
80” x 24” (6.7’ x 2’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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Richardson Bay
80” x 28” (6.7’ x 2.3’). Mixed media (acrylic, marker and newspaper collage) and carving on wood panel.
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Art One’s ad in Phoenix Home & Garden 2016 Top Design Sources Special Issue
My Dad texts me, Is this your painting in the Phoenix Home & Garden? And I’m all, PROBably not. And it was! In an ad, 2016 Top Design Sources Special Issue, and I have to say it’s just exciting and fun to see my work in magazine print, especially considering all the city scenes I clip from newspapers and magazines and collage into my paintings. Don’t be surprised if this clipping of my painting ends up in one of my upcoming paintings! How full circle is that?!!
But seriously I’m honored that Art One chose a couple of my pieces for this ad; they certainly have a mind-blowing quantity of super interesting and inspiring art. (I’m pretty sure they told me about the ad and I forgot.)
So anyway here is one side of Madame Tussaud’s (left), and 71 Grand Street (lower right circle); details about these pieces are in the previous post.
- Art One Ad, Phoenix Home & Garden 2016 Top Design Sources Special Issue
Madame Tussaud’s; Times Square, Noon; and 71 Grand Street
Madame Tussaud’s, Looking East (Side 1 of a double-sided painting), 40″ x 36″, mixed media on panel:
Madame Tussaud’s, Looking West (Side 2 of a double-sided painting), 40″ x 36″, mixed media on panel:
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Time Square, Noon, 27 x 36, mixed media on panel:
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71 Grand Street, 36 x 26.5, mixed media on panel:
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Diving Girl and Mr. Lucky’s
Diving Girl, acrylic, newspaper and mixed media on carved wood panel, 36 x 26 1/2
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and Mr. Lucky’s, acrylic, newspaper and mixed media on carved wood panel, 39 1/2 x 36
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Thank you to Barbara Burghardt Roether for going with me on a scary cloudy gloomy day to the deserted parking lot of Mr. Lucky’s on an especially bleak stretch of Grand Avenue, a strip of wrong side of the tracks that runs diagonally and industrially and strip clubby through Phoenix. Barb took the pictures for me, because she knows what she’s doing with a camera and I do not, while a zombie-looking guy appeared across the lot and walked straight at us, slowly. We got the pictures we could and fled. Thanks so much Barb! It was fun being in the zombie apocalypse with you!
and a bit more about Diving Girl:
The Diving Girl shows up as matchbooks and hood ornaments and neon signs wherever delightful vintag-y things may be found, in a red or blue one-piece, either singly or in threes. There are several iterations of the three-girl sign that lights up girl by girl, apex to fingertips in the water. The one in this painting has been apexing over the Starlite Motel in Mesa, Arizona, since 1958. In October 2011 a massive hailstorm knocked her to the ground and she wound up on display in a mall while funds were gathered for restoration. She’s back in the sky now where she belongs, but for a while we got to see her up close and personal, rivets and all. Here she is on the ground after the storm:
(Those are not my pictures–they were on the display at the mall.)
Here she is at the mall . . .
and here she is again, in my painting in an ad for Art One in the Arcadia News:
More signage to come!
4 New Paintings
216 West 22nd Street, acrylic and marker on canvas, 48 x 60
Essex House, acrylic and marker on canvas, 60 x 48
View from the Spanish Steps, acrylic and marker on canvas, 60 x 48
Siena, acrylic and marker on canvas, 35 1/2 x 48. Darth Vader stencil is made from a photo of a stencil of Darth Vader on a wall in Florence. Stencil graffiti was prominent there and in Venice. Here are some examples, including our friend Mr. Vader. I’m leaving out the x-rated teddy bear.
Darth Vader, Florence
Toaster, Florence
Dice, Venice
Hogre, Rome
501 Castro Street and Castro Theater
501 Castro Street, 60 x 48, acrylic and marker on canvas.
Castro Theater, 48 x 60, acrylic and marker on canvas.
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501 Castro Street, Detail 1
501 Castro Street, Detail 2
501 Castro Street, Detail 3
Castro Theater, Detail 1
Castro Theater, Detail 2
Castro Theater, Detail 3
62 Prince Street
62 Prince Street. Marker, collage and mixed media on wood panel. 36 x 26 x 1 1/4
I brought this painting to Art One yesterday. It may have a buyer already, a really nice guy who lives in West Chelsea and if he buys it he’s taking it back with him—guess how much I love THAT!
You can see some of the progress in earlier posts here and here.
It’s marker, acrylic paint, modeling paste, and clippings from The New York Times on wood panel, and I carve into it with a linoleum cutter. The carving is a little easier to see in the detail photos (detail 6 especially):
62 Prince Street detail 1
62 Prince Street detail 2
62 Prince Street detail 3
62 Prince Street detail 4
62 Prince Street detail 5
62 Prince Street detail 6
To Steven: Happy Anniversary! Love, Gus.
For about the past five months I’ve been working in secret on a painting of my friends Gus and Steven, an anniversay present from Gus to Steven.
Gus & Steven, acrylic, marker, and collage on board, framed, 29 x 65.
Gus & Steven detail 1
Gus & Steven detail 2
Per Gus’s specifications I tried to keep some of the original image peeking through. He had seen some of my other painting-over-old-paintings and liked that aspect in those. He had an impressive knowledge of my work and had clearly spent some time looking at my web site and blog, which is a super great way to make me feel all happy and good. He didn’t want to steer me too much but there was some very helpful direction in the things he described that he liked.
Also he had an old framed painting that once belonged to his aunt that he wanted me to use. He didn’t want to hang the image anymore, but he didn’t want to just hide it away, either. He sneaked it over in April and I promptly covered it in black.
Under Gus & Steven (Gus’s Aunt’s framed print)
Not a bad painting, that. (Actually a print of a photo of a painting on board.) I especially enjoyed this section with the cows and the fairly impressionistic shrubbery and the sort of possessed-looking barn:
Detail of the painting under Gus & Steven
Here it is in progress, flat on its back on the floor so I can puddle and drip paint on it:
Gus & Steven in progress.
I finished a little late but Gus and Steven were out of town for their anniversary anyway so Gus said it was fine. It’s always good to be able to finish something with no pressure. Finally I was able to text Gus, “Et voila!”
They came by to see it for the first time and pick it up Saturday. Gus texted me they were on their way after running some errands and Steven had no idea. I tried to act all surprised to see them but I’m a really bad actor and Steven had sort of figured it out by then anyway. So I dispensed with pretense and walked them out to the front patio, the prettiest place by far to unveil a painting.
The Unveiling
Gus and Steven looking at Gus & Steven.
Of course I worried a little they wouldn’t really, really like it like I wanted them to. I didn’t think they would hate it but I wanted them to love it. They said they did. They seemed for real.
Gus & Steven with Gus and Steven
True story. Happy ending.
Met 8-8-04, married 8-8-08
Happy Anniversary, Gus & Steven!
Pizza
Pizza, 16 x 20, marker and acrylics on canvas. Happy Birthday to Todd.
Cortona Fruit Stand and The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano
Cortona Fruit Stand, 26 x 36, Acrylic, marker, and collage on wood panel. From my own photos.
(These were finished and sold months ago but I realized I never posted the finished ones.)
Cortona Fruit Stand Detail 1
Cortona Fruit Stand Detail 2
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano, 36 x 26, Acrylic, marker, and collage on wood panel.
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano Detail 1
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano Detail 2
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano Detail 3
The Colosseum from Via di San Giovanni in Laterano Detail 4
Museum Girl
Museum Girl, 20 x 15, acrylic & marker on recycled canvas. From a picture of a girl in a magazine I had to draw.
Irrigation Night at Barb’s, in progress
Irrigation Night at Barb’s, nearly finished. Acrylic, marker & pencil on another old painting from good old Goodwill, 28 x 22. (Original painting below.)
I live in an irrigation neighborhood and it’s sometimes sort of an event. I’m lucky because I’m at the end of a line and don’t have to open or close gates; we just leave them open all the time. But someone has to be at Barb’s to let the water in and shut it down no matter when their time comes up–noon or night or 2 a.m. Impromptu gatherings happen over coffee or cocktails among neighbors with similar goals for the coming several hours: start and end the flood on time to make sure you get all your water. Pick up anything in the yard that doesn’t swim. If it’s hot out, wade around and cool off. Enjoy the view and the slightly magical feeling that you live on a lake in the middle of Phoenix, Arizona.
I took these pictures one night hangin with Barb during her irrigation, with flash (below) and without.
Dot’s
Dot’s, Acrylic & marker on 24 x 36 recycled canvas. At The Shady Dell in Bisbee, Arizona.
Entry sign.
This tiny trailer sleeps two.
Part of the menu. Simple, cheap, and good.
Dot’s at night.
Dot’s in the morning.
The Shady Dell is next to a cemetery.
Empire State from Lex and 34th
Finished the new cityscape, and backtracked in the photos with a side cheat walk on Google streets to figure out where I was when I took the picture. Acrylic, marker, and collage on 24 x 48 used canvas.
Here’s a detail:
New Cityscape in progress
What I’m working on today: The Empire State Building from probably 5th. Acrylic, marker, and soon-to-be collage on an old painting from Goodwill, a horizontal beachscape, 24 x 48 canvas. You can see some of the tufts of grass and seagulls:
Michael at Castel Sant’ Angelo
Acrylic and marker on used canvas (painted over a yard-sale painting), image 12 x 16. The subject is a marble statue of Archangel Michael (with iron wings), created by Raffaello da Montelupo in 1536 for the top of the castle. (“Legend has it” that in 590, Michael appeared above the castle, raising his sword to signal the end of the plague of that year.) Montelupo’s statue was replaced in 1753 by another Michael and moved to an inner courtyard. Here’s the picture I used for the painting:
