alumni

i will have three works on view at the new art gallery at the college of new jersey from sept 15-oct 13 2010. the exhibition will be featuring various alumni. opening reception will be held on friday oct 1.

contagion 1
ink and watercolor
14" x 18"
2010

tiptoe transfer
acrylic and collage
7" x 7"
2009

mc1
acrylic and collage
6.5" x 8.75"
2009

finally a statement

To proceed with difficulty or great effort. Creating art is about looking and finding. Art has always been basically about agony, desperation and helplessness. That is why it is so important. It is this elusiveness and intangibility that keeps the search alive. To generate something new in this world inspires love and embarrassment in equal measures. It is this high threshold for embarrassment that reinforces the love necessary to make something which is genuine. Within this work I am both reassured and constantly longing for faith in what I am doing. It has become a stalemate, although one that remains fluid. In these circles I can search forever. While I cannot define what it is I am feeling it is real nonetheless.

contagions and antidotes

i have posted a lot of new work on my site (http://www.rockycanonicaisstillalive.com). i think that finally i am getting somewhere in rectifying drawing with painting. oddly enough (to me) it is through very small watercolor paintings.

the lesson

zelle

"For artists who must start over each day without any assurance that the success or failure of the previous day's work will reliably indicate what comes next, possibility is the product of intuition, trial and error, and an instinctive trust in the voice that says Yes or No to each option that presents itself."

"But while aesthetic prognosticators are prone to declaring certain artistic practices obsolete based on their waning power in a given period, artists, whatever their public positions might be, seldom write off any possibility once and for all. On the contrary, the ability to see fresh opportunity in neglected or abandoned models is one of the basic ingredients of innovation."
Robert Storr Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

among wolves-back catalog

beechfields record label (http://www.thebeechfields.com) has released "in the beginning" a collection of unreleased songs from baltimore based band "among wolves". i have collaborated with billy wolves of the band in the past, designing the album cover for their 2007 self-titled album as well as the cover image for this release. this collection is available for free download (donation) on the label's website under digital-only downloads. please visit the site they support local music in the baltimore area and allow artists to create the music that they want.

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