Saturday | SOLD

Saturday, 2002. Oil on canvas, 30" x 38"The second of three paintings sold this week, Saturday is the very last in a series of large oil Townscapes painted in 2002.

Coffeehaus Study | SOLD

Cofeehaus Study, 2002. Acrylic on Bristol board, 12" x 9"One of three paintings sold this week: Study for Coffeehaus, a large oil painting already in the buyer's collection.

AB8 in progress in the studio - studio detail

In the studio 3

In the studio 2

In the studio 1

An encounter on the planet of old technology

Technology. Or, objects I have crushes on.

Currently in the studio: Space. Technology. Trash.

Dust in Orion, May 2, 2012. From Wired Magazine's Best Space Photos of the Year 2012

Making art = dumpster diving

Duchamp started it with his Readymades, using existing, commercially manufactured objects and minimally assembling them to create new objects; or simply hanging them on the wall and calling them art - as if to say that naming them "art" makes them so.

I think art is dumpster diving on a more profound, less literal level, too, in the sense of making something from nothing. Seeing gold in trash. Digging ideas out of the unlikeliest corners.

Not that this is the province only of visual artists.

It's more the nature of creativity in general, be it technological invention, scientific hypothesis, or fashion innovation. In my mind, "dumpster diving" means seeing something in a new way, beyond the obvious.

New art supplies 3

New art supplies 2