It’s always satisfying when someone wants to live with one of my paintings, and this one, titled “Paris Think and Feel” from 1998, was recently sold. It’s a 30 x 34 inch oil on canvas, and the imagery caused the people viewing it to speculate on what is going on here. As an artist, I … Read more
I was doing some holiday shopping recently when I found myself walking past a “Five Below” store – I can’t say it’s ever been a place that I have shopped, but I understood it to be a discount store and I decided to go in to see what kind of stuff they had. I was … Read more
I had a chance to visit Paris in 2012, and I took full advantage of my time there to visit the major museums, walk the streets, and explore different neighborhoods. One in particular that I wanted to visit was Montmartre, due to its significant role in art history, as the one-time home base for artists … Read more
I’ve had a habit – for maybe 30 years now, dating back to when I lived in NYC – of seeing an empty storefront or building and wondering to myself: would that make for a good art gallery space? Considering I had a storefront gallery on East 11th Street in the late 1990s (see more … Read more
These are the last two paintings using acrylic on canvas that I’ve made, and I think you’d agree with me that the styles are quite different. The first one, titled “A Knowing Glance,” is a cubist-styled portrait, and the second one, titled “A Memory in search of Part 2 (Brant Lake),” is a landscape painting, … Read more
I was reading an old article from the NY Times about an artist who gives away his art, secretly … and it was both fascinating and thought-provoking. The artist, Fred Cray, has hidden over 32,000 works of his art throughout New York City over the past 12 years. He has a totally different approach than … Read more
I’m looking through some photographs on my computer from 2018 and happened upon a couple that interest me. The first one (above) was on an empty store, and I added my own little message, based on my reaction to the second one (below), which looks like one of those slightly-illustrated inspirational quote art works that … Read more
I was on a walk in Montclair, NJ today when I noticed this garage (above) on a residential street, and did a double-take. From a distance, I could that there was a custom installation of an artistic frieze, featuring some relief sculpture, but I had to move closer to get a better look. Once I … Read more
I was walking home from some errands when I noticed this empty sign along Franklin Avenue in my town of Belleville, NJ. I can see a very faint trace of the former sign for one-time men’s hair replacement center, but it looks like they turned it inside out so that the blank back side would … Read more
I had the tv on while cleaning up after dinner tonight, and the show on was “My Lottery Dream Home” with David Bromstad. The couple being featured had won $15 million on a lottery ticket and decided to shop for their dream home with a budget of $700,000 … my first thought was, if you’ve … Read more