An orange box on the streets of NYC is much more than that

orange box on a NYC sidewalk in Tribeca

I was walking through Tribeca in NYC the other day when I noticed this bright orange box on the sidewalk. It grabbed my attention, with the color serving as a stark contrast to all of the gray around it. I like this image as a photograph in its own artistic way, but then my imagination … Read more

Oscar Wilde and the Imagine Wilde Things exhibition

art inspired by Oscar Wilde at McKinney Arts Gallery

The current exhibition in the McKinney Arts gallery space, titled “Imagine Wilde Things,” takes its inspiration from a passage from an Oscar Wilde play. The play, Salomé, has an exchange between King Herod and Salomé where he says: “In a coffer of nacre I have three wondrous turquoises. He who wears them on his forehead … Read more

Revisiting old photos spawns a virtual art exhibition

Sloth in a tree at the Como Zoo in Minnesota

I was revisiting some old photographs looking for some pictures that my mom mentioned in a phone call last night, when I happened upon a collection of images taken at the Como Zoo and Conservatory in 2007. While they weren’t the pictures I was looking for, they were long-forgotten images that included a number that … Read more

A consistency of art style – or not

paintings by artist Mark McKinney

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