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Category Archives: Exhibits
Complete Star
The legs bothered me because they were too dark and roughly painted, so I worked on an additional layer of Ceramic White and a flesh mix of Cadmium Orange and Viridian with Foundation White to raise the value a little, … Continue reading
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
We took a break from Thousand Oaks to visit LACMA, which has turned into a magnificent art museum since the building of two huge new buildings showing touring exhibits and standing collections. I loved visiting the Olmec sculpture exhibit, where … Continue reading
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Pre-Raphaelites to visit California
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England has announced that it is putting together an exhibit of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. This isn’t particularly earth-shattering news in itself, but their plan is to bring the show to San Francisco, which is … Continue reading
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Artist’s talk at Bert Green Fine Art
Photos from yesterday’s talk, which was enjoyable. I spoke about alchemical nigredo, the grail flints found in Neolithic tombs and the nature of inner transformation discovered in the search for the purified and re-integrated prima materia, embarked upon by all … Continue reading
Artists talk
I’ll be at Bert Green Fine Art for an artists talk on Saturday at four o’clock. My installations Grails and As the Crow Flies have been there this month. Do join me at the gallery if you’re in the Los … Continue reading
Time
I don’t know how to stretch the day to be even more productive. This day was taken by some very pleasant events that were thoroughly enjoyable and laid groundwork for the future, but meant that I simply couldn’t get any … Continue reading
Bert Green Fine Art opening reception
Good times in down town Los Angeles. There was a good turnout for the opening reception tonight, and with Artwalk tomorrow we’ll see a really big crowd at the gallery. The crows were very popular, and a couple of them … Continue reading
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Install
Installing the exhibit down in Bert Green’s gallery in Los Angeles went smoothly, and the dilapidated truck I borrowed to transport the paintings and the grail piece held up very well indeed, zipping along the California freeways quite nicely, and … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Black birds, Exhibits, Life, Making work, Openings
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Beckett plays
I spent a pleasant morning driving to Santa Barbara to meet up with everyone involved in the Beckett production that I’m designing for John Blondell. It looks as though the consensus of opinion is that everything should be as stripped … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Life, Tarot-related paintings, Theatre
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Meditation
Another one down. This skull work is becoming a meditation on death. But curiously I haven’t really had a morbid thought since I began the piece. I think of this angel of death in terms of renewal – like spring … Continue reading
Posted in Angel, Exhibits, Life, Making work
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