January 01, 2009

December's Acrylic Palettes

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December 21, 2008

Plank Lever Series: "lumps_#39"

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acrylic on magazine page, 10.5" x 8.5"
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December 11, 2008

Art In A Box Benefit

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2004, acrylic on magazine page, 11" x 8.5"

Someday art will be currency and money really will grow on trees.

This month Art In A Box – an organization dedicated to delivering art supplies and programs to children in disrupted regions of the world – is collaborating with Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts to stage a benefit exhibition and online sale. It continues through Dec. 24th.

The regenerative energy of human creativity remains one of our great underutilized resources – its potential is unlimited in a world of dwindling natural capital. No doubt, children represent the purest form of creative experience.

Spread the gift of art by visiting Art In A Box for collectable works at a reasonable price – including my offering, pictured above – with a huge return on investment via the youngest, most essential artists in our human tribe.

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December 01, 2008

November's Acrylic Palettes

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November 21, 2008

Plank Lever Series: "et_#35"

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acrylic on magazine page, 10.5" x 8.5"
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November 10, 2008

Plank Lever Series: "sancti_#30"

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acrylic on magazine page, 10.5" x 8.5"
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November 02, 2008

Process Post: Active Canvas

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These details and horizontal core samples document the current state of the active canvas, Joan of Arc Riding My Little Pony.

Presently, the surface resides at a noteworthy junction between having executed Old Master quotes (which finds me inhabiting some projection of these previous painters’ experience) and inventively resolving the surface to a place where the painting resides as an unquestioned visual fact.

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November 01, 2008

October's Acrylic Palettes

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October 22, 2008

Plank/Lever Series: "wheedling_#28"

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acrylic on magazine page, 10.5" x 8.5"
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October 11, 2008

Plank/Lever Series: "hewing_#26"

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acrylic on magazine page, 10.5" x 8.5"
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October 07, 2008

T-Shirt Text Series: "untitled continuum"

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graphite on paper
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October 03, 2008

September's Acrylic Palettes

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September 19, 2008

Leveraging Pop

It may be no mistake or simple happenstance that Damien Hirst’s sure-to-be-legendary auction coincides with what appears to be the collapse of the economic system. Albeit surrounded by the trappings of spectacle and the marketing of cynicism, consider the success of the sale as a rush to invest in the tangibly intangible possibility of acquiring something priceless.

With similar hope, today’s post represents my own attempt at a flight to quality as I endeavor to make the most of time and the means at my disposal – or, to be more literal, the means of others’ disposal.

Hand torn soda bottle labels and acrylic on paper, 11” x 17” Arranged Chronologically – Most recent at top.
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