Painting Meditiations Install

Here are some photos of the installed exhibition:

Painting Meditations: New Work

This is what I have been busy with the last few months...

Stop by if you're in town.

"H is for Holiday" Show @ the DAM

Like these? These are a few of my new experiments. They are 4"x 4", acrylic on wood panels, only $25 each, and currently available at the DAM( Detroit Artists Market) in their Holiday Show. If you get a chance go check out the show. They have a bunch of one of a kind items that would make great gifts for the holidays. Shop local and support independent artists/makers!

New Paintings & the DAM Small(er) Show

I have been painting like a fiend to have some work to submit for the DAM Small(er) Show in August. The show will run August 5-27 and is a cash and carry show so the work may not be up for the duration of the show. All works are 8" or smaller and $250 or less. Here is a preview of some of the work I submitted. Twelve pieces were submitted in total and I am happy to say that all have been accepted.


Infinite Temple Study A


Goddess Study I


Peace Energy

There will be work by dozens of other artists as well so stop on by to check it out.

Exhibition:
August 5-27, 2011

Opening Reception:
Friday August 5, 2011
6-9pm

DAM website
DAM facebook page

A Portrait of Fear

Here is the piece that I did for the Fear show at the Work•Detroit Gallery. It is a mixed media collage: laser print, watercolor, pencil.

Fear Blog
The Detroiter.com
Work•Detroit

50 BUCKS Exhibit @ Center Galleries

Friday September 12, 2008

The 50 Bucks Exhibit was a one night benefit event at the College for Creative Studies Center Galleries. It celebrated the Center Galleries' 20th year, the 10th year in it's current space, the 10th year of the Woodward Lecture Series, and Michelle Perron's 10th year running the programs. Add all those years up and you get 50 years. Tickets for the event were $50 and each piece of art was sold for $50 as well. Artists and patrons, in return for donating a work of art, received 2 tickets for the event. There were approximately 234 works of art donated and over 300 people in attendance. I again had the honor of helping Matt Hanna, Michelle Perron, and Todd Erickson hang the exhibition. It was a challenge because of the sheer amount of work that was donated but it made for an exciting night! Congratulations Michelle!

ICON Exhibit @ Work•Detroit

ICON
September 13 - October 18
Work•Detroit
www.art-design.umich.edu/workdetroit
www.workdetroiticon.blogspot.com


For anyone in the Detroit area there is a great exhibition at Work•Detroit. The theme is icons. The exhibition includes some interesting video work as well as 2-D and 3-D work. My mandala entitled Primordial Sounds & Ancient Truths has been accepted into the Exhibition. I have included a few of the highlights of the exhibition in this post but make sure you take the time to stop by the Work•Detroit space to see the whole exhibit!

Show discription:
In contemporary culture the term icon is used in the general sense of symbol. An image, picture, or representation that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy. It may be a sacred item that channels spiritual energy. It may be a signaling device that taps into a shared visual vocabulary, that transcends language, dialect and even culture. It may be born of a response. An icon that is accepted and absorbed by one group may be misunderstood or rejected by another. As a word or graphic symbol an icon is a sign whose form suggests meaning, as on a computer display screen where it is a graphic symbol that usually suggests the type of object represented or the purpose of an available function.

Work•Detroit invited thinkers and makers to utilize chosen mediums to create icons that speak to their own observations and experiences.


Joshua Ray Smith -Entropy & Silence


Cathy Gendron -Ghouls & Dolls


Dave Fisher -PYR


Donald Kilpatrick -Legion


Jack O. Summers -Manly Pursuits


On the ICON postcard at the top of the post:
Kristen Gallerneax
-On Loan from the Revenant Archives: REV.NO: (PSYC.EXPMNT, BOX 10, FILE 3)

The Art of Nature...

Works by Andrzej Sikora and Todd Erickson
July 2- August 17, 2008
The Scarab Club
217 Farnsworth
Detroit, MI 48202
The Scarab Club

If you are in the Detroit area I suggest you go see the Art of Nature exhibit at the historic Scarab Club. It features the works of Andrzej Sikora and Todd Erickson.

Erickson's bronze sculptures are delicate and beautiful set against a backdrop of Sikora's large and colorful paintings. There are twelve 6'x 9' paintings entitled The Four Seasons and twelve bronzes. The paintings overwhelm and envelope the viewer through their sheer size and rich textures while the delicate sculptures invite you in, making you feel as if you have discovered a secret and magical place. This is a exquisitely balanced show on multiple levels and a great conversation between two artists' work.

Here are a few of my favorite sculptures...

left to right: Glen Eyrie, Old Camp


Secret in the Woods


left to right: After the Storm, Window to the Storm


Old Eagles Nest


Old Camp


I will try to make it back to the gallery to get better photos of Sikora's paintings.

DAM "Spirit of Paint By Numbers" Exhibition Closing

The DAM(Detroit Artist Market) Paint by Numbers Exhibition has finally come to a close. My PBN(Paint by Number) sold for much more than I thought which makes me happy in the knowledge that it will help DAM out even more than I anticipated. It was a really fun exhibition and there were a lot of really great interpretations of the PBN's by many of Detroit's artists. Every artist started out with a PBN blank and could do whatever they wanted with it. You can read more about the exhibition in my original post here: link.
I thought I would share a few photos of the finished pieces... artists are credited above each photo...

Bruce Gerlach


Carl Oxley


Cheryl M Phillips


Chris Crowder


Christine Hagedorn


Darcel Deneau


Diana May


Ed Fella


George Rahme


Gilda Snowden


Jack O Summers


Janet Wisner


Joe Fugate


Mary Clare Duran


Narine Kchikian


Nina Goebel


Peggy Kerwan


Teresa Peterson


Todd Erickson


Many thanks to Dave Chow for the photos.