November 25th / Todays Post
Two new collages: First one is rather conventional with conventional glossy magazine material of other artists and photographers work (I’d say thats pretty much the nature of collage), while the second is done with student art from a 1944 High School yearbook. Pieces and fragments are rearranged in a new configuration in the bottom panel, while the top part has a commercial illustration from a back pages sponsor ad. The “Caution Future Ahead” caption is a student bit found in a party illustration. Seems rather apt, since the war hadn’t yet ended. Also makes the first one a little scary, put in that context.
November 22nd / Todays Post
“Nothing much depends upon a red car traveling through, or parked near a white pole” as parodied with two photographs.
November 21st / Todays Post
An hommage to Art Brut: a wad of paper found just as is (that’s what rain followed by months of intense sunlight does to it) bordered with neck extended, one white dot and a slight bit of red added, turning it into a faux Dubuffet !
November 19th / Todays Post
2005, Two collages with drawing additions as possibilities for “painting” (not paintings)
November 11th / Todays Post
Veterans Day, 2019. Revisit Stephen Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage”
November 3rd / Todays Post
Two 2018 “Painted Polaroids,” discards with black and white grease pencil drawing on them.
November 1st & 2nd / Todays Post
Visual metaphors for All Souls Day and All Saints Day in consecutive mid 80s Polaroid photographs
October 31st / Todays Post
Happy scary Halloween, 2019. A “found photo”, followed by a 1920s pulp illustration and a Polaroid discard, both with some added scribbled black grease pencil drawing and whiteout dots.
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.