Happy 4th!

Whoo! Happy Independence Day!

You can see more photos from last weekend, the wedding mentioned in my previous post, by going to this link. I'm far too lazy to upload them again here, except for this one:

Block.

Perhaps the most annoying thing about being sick last week was that I wasn't able to get it together to apply to the city arts commission for a show at the Block Gallery in downtown Raleigh as I had intended. I tried to get as much info together as I could last weekend, but I lacked the energy to pull the last of the required materials together before we left for Massachusetts this past weekend. Alas. Sigh. Well, maybe I will have the opportunity again in two years.

Sigh.

In better news, I'm feeling waaaay better, and had a great weekend up in Massachusetts at our cousin’s wedding. Voila, some photos:

Here's little Miss J. – I may have eventually won her over (temporarily) with some good ole peek-a-boo, but for the bulk of the weekend she eyed us with extreme suspicion, like so:

Cutest! Couple! Ever! And the bestest man of the weekend's festivities:And this one is for Gary: BLOGGED!More soon.

Bug.

No posts lately, because I am under the weather. Strange stomach bug. Check back soon. Ugh.

The unfinished series.

I started a series pf paintings late last fall but haven't had an opportunity to get back to them... someday, someday. It's a series of 12"x12" panels, mostly, with people and animals. A kind of interaction of sorts. Anyway. More on this soon, when I have a chance to work on them some more. Here's an example of one...

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2007-2008 (in progress)

oil on panel

12"x12"

Portrait paintings.

I need to update my "commissions" page on my website with some work from the past year or so. This one was a fun one:

Art Recommendations for June!

Raleigh, NC:
First off, of course I have to urge you to come visit 311 West Martin Street Galleries and Studios. Both the galleries and the studios, all of it. We'll be happy to see you! Here's our website, which includes directions:
www.311galleriesandstudios.org

Also, I have a piece in Visual Art Exchange's current juried show, "Emulous". The point of the show was to exhibit work which recreated or emulated the work of artists (mostly well-known ones, of course) past. The work I entered and its inspiration can be seen here.

Okay. Enough self-promotion... and on to other things to see in Raleigh:

See Shaun Richards' latest work, alongside work by Owen Beckmann and Ani Hoover, at Flanders Art Gallery in Raleigh, NC:
www.flandersartgallery.com

Sarah Powers - the force of awesomeness/Executive Director of Visual Art Exchange and a kick-ass artist as well – is currently showing in Durham, NC at the Bull City Arts Collaborative:
www.withouttrees.com

San Francisco, CA:

Painting by Juliette Lemontey

See Juliette Lemontey’s work at Edo Salon in San Francisco, CA, through the end of June:
www.edosalon.com/gallery.html

New York:

A painter whose work I really, really really love is showing right now at the New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition. Her name is Alyssa Monks, check it out:
NYAA Summer Exhibition: June 17 - Sept 7 (Opening June 17th)
111 Franklin Street, NY, NY 10013 (check out www.nyaa.edu for more info.

More soon...

Long time no post.

Oh my, it's been a while since I've posted. Oops. Meant to do this every day, but things have gotten busy... work, paintings, painting commissions, the NBA Finals. Yeah. In this particular instance my New England heritage trumps my 9 years in California, and therefore I'm hoping the Celtics pull this one through. WHOOOOOO!!

Also last week: my grandmother would have been 91 on the 4th. Makes me think about time lost, and regrets, and how tragic it is that she passed on just on the cusp of starting a new life, really. Moral of the story: really, there are many. In any event, I miss her, and wish there could have been more time.

Time = the enemy.

We also had our June First Friday at the studio. Good turnout, I think both because of the CAM show and also the Scavenger Hunt that was part of First Friday that night. I still don't know who won, nor what the clue was at our studio. Alas.

Speaking of painting and such, I feel certain that this fellow should feature in a painting at some point: