Events are moving too quickly to post everything from the graduate school program on the blog. Here are highlights. The photographs are snapshots, hand held, daylight. The city paintings are influenced in part by recently reading Don DeLillo's White Noise. The story concerned an "airborne toxic event" hovering over Somerville, Mass, circa 1985. The next series of paintings use only black and … [Read more...]
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This post marks the 200th publication on the two year anniversary of this blog. The occasion brings to mind another older anniversary. Twenty years ago I quit a perfectly good, well paying, full-time job in corporate marketing graphics. I didn’t quit outright. I took a one-year leave of absence beginning in 1988 to study painting with a teacher in Boston. His six week summer course included the … [Read more...]