October 29th / Todays Post
Two small drawings, one obvious, the other not without a touch of Cubist play, 2019
October 7th / Todays Post
This Fall, travails, travels, and photos, 2 from New York, 2 from Cape Cod, 2019
October 4th / Todays Post
Top: Collage in an early Modernist manner. My high school introduction to collage in the mid-50s was in this “style”. . . followed by a collage rearranged with my drawn additions. From a 1925 reproduction of a painting by a Parisian artist, Robert Cotiron.
September 21st / Todays Post
Three recent collages (2 from New York in June and 1 from Cape Cod in September) going from conventional to un-
Sepember 18 / Todays Post
Three recent drawings: a sort of abstract surrealism and decorative illustration combination.
Posting resumed after a hiatus recouping from a broken fibula leg bone in Cape Cod, in both ways not all that bad.
July 22nd / Todays Post
Irmie 1947-2019
July 9th / Todays Post
Two “drawing/ collage/drawings” currently in a small drawing exhibition in Paris, 2019
May 24th / Todays Post
Drawing with collage from 1987 sketch book. A narrative that doesn’t explain itself, while it seems to have one vague possibly if set in early 19th century literature. I was an admirer of Herman Melville’s “Pierre; or, The Ambiguities” for it’s shear gothic weirdness, which it was meant to be a sent up of, but ended up out doing it. I’d like to say I had that in mind, but I didn’t. I just liked cutting old stuff up and rearranging it.
Keeping the original from which the collage cut outs were taken and used a year later in a 1988 Detroit Focus Gallery flyer as part of an attempt at a visual representation of the flux and flow of global exchange Capitalism, time management, surveillance, and a commodity culture in art, both commercial and fine. The exhibition, which included myself, was on graphic design, advertising design, industrial design, and commercial illustration, and of course, not as a critique, but as an elevation into what might also be a form of art, suitable for a gallery. Ironically, none of it was for sale.
May 21st / Todays Post
A drawing made with collaged parts of drawings and a collage with some drawing added, notwithstanding some stylistic distance between them.
May 1st / Todays Post
A recent photograph along with an old illustration done in Detroit sometime in the early 1980s. To celebrate May Day 2019.
April 2nd / Todays Post
My 1989 poster currently in a LACMA exhibition, “West of Modernism: California Graphic Design, 1975-1995. Until April 21st.
March 28th / Todays Post
1984. Consecutive drawings from a 89 page sketch book project for a CCS history class, “American Art: 1900-1945.” Two stylistic interpretations from my reimagining the Streamlining and Art Deco period. Somehow they both ended up as scary faces, which might have had something to do with the 1930s rise of Fascism, that is if I can actually remember what I had in mind after 35 years ?