The recent work has often required a full measure of patience along with a willingness to allow radical change. Begun in 2004, by early 2008 this was a dark canvas that had seen three different studios. Maybe clear fall sun streaming through the skylights inspired a different potential. After nearly four years, it took just [...]
The studio doors will be open Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and 28, from noon to 7 PM as part of the 2008 Art Under the Bridge Festival.
The annual event is put together by the Dumbo Arts Center and draws as many as 150,000 visitors to this unique neighborhood. The festival includes a wide variety [...]
Dieu Donne is showing work created for their annual benefit auction at their Chelsea gallery. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, September 18, and the show will run until the auction on October 14. Complete details on the Dieu Donne website.
This drawing, made on some of Dieu Donne’s own lovely handmade paper, will [...]
In chapter four, Elements, of his book Wind, Sand, and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tells the story of his encounter with a blue storm: a violent, cloudless wind storm. He describes the color of the sky viscerally:
On this particular day I did not like the color of the sky. It was blue. Pure blue.
A hard [...]
This painting was finished in early March, 2008. The changes in the week or two right before that point were pretty dramatic. It had been a dark painting for months. The inspiration right at the end came from a very beat up street tree that I walk by every morning between the house and the [...]