Moose Art

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Upcoming Exhibition

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May 31 - June 13

Westmoreland County Community College

Westmoreland Art Nationals: Juried Fine Art and Photography Exhibit

145 Pavilion Lane, Youngwood PA 15697

Opening reception:

May 31

7:00 pm

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One of my older pieces, "Ask Me About Primanti's", was chosen for the Art Nationals. If you get out to Westmoreland to see the show, make sure you check out the Arts and Heritage Festival that will be going on at the same time! Both shows should be pretty cool, with both U.S. and international artists!

Monday, May 19, 2008

"I think, therefore I worry."

oil on burlap
2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Friday, May 02, 2008

Upcoming Exhibition

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May 11 - June 08

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art

Juried Biennial

221 North Main Street, Greensburg, PA 15601

Opening reception:

May 10

6:30 - 8:30

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My piece "Tu as aujourd'hui. (You have today.)" was chosen for the 2008 Biennial! If you're in the area, stop by and see the show!

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Open Figure Drawing/Painting Session

Pittsburgh artists:

The Watercolors Gallery (901 Penn Avenue) in downtown Pittsburgh has a great figure drawing session every week.

$10 suggested donation
6:30-9:30 pm
Professional models

Email: figuresession@verizon.net

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

"There she is... my pulse renewal."

commissioned painting
oil on burlap
2008

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Thursday, April 03, 2008

An addition to "Let's play house...?"

This was posted in the comments section of "Let's play house...?" on 4.3.08 by John Danchisko. We're in the process of working on a few painting/writing collaborations. I think this one deserves to be out here in the open...

Antithesis of Renaissance

How quickly snow fades to grass, or bones offer leaves;
In moments hair grows, skin wrinkles. Days break. Sunsets.
Triumph leads to fall - from mucous to
dust.
Silence. Gasping. Silence.
Destiny. Inevitability.
A return to innocence, void.

Friday, February 22, 2008

"Let's play house...?"

oil on canvas
2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

NFS

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

"Well, here I am..."

commissioned painting
oil on canvas
2007
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Reposted: "Soaked Up the Moment" and "Precipitation"

An amazingly talented writer (who just happens to be a wonderful friend of mine) wrote "Precipitation" specifically about this piece for a show I did back in February of '05. The two belong together!

"Soaked Up the Moment"
oil on canvas
2005

Precipitation

lightning scored the evening

sky-tent canvas ceiling and

deep puddles fled

my footsteps-

those cool blue sprays were entropy-

things being how they would be

how they should be

how they can be

(as they are in First Design)

and reflection on the cobble-era pathways

dance electric, flicker pyric-

water,

itself a vessel,

bears me

ancient vision,

prismatic,

from the Architect

himself.

- Mary Elizabeth Gideon

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

"(W)HERE?"

oil, watercolor pencil, charcoal, ink, and marker on panel
2007
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Mark Rothko in an interview with Selden Rodman, 1956

"I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotion- tragedy, ecstacy, doom, and so on- and the fact that lots of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate those basic emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!"

Jewell, Rothko, and Gottlieb in a letter to art critic Edward Alden, 1943

"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing. We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless."

"The lights come on at 6am..."

oil on burlap
2007
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"Hello, unemployment..."

charcoal, conte, ink, and one "Needs Assesment" (courtesy of Bankers Life and Casualty Company) on cardboard
2007
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Art is the image of a human being. This means that when a person is confronted with art, then they are in fact confronted with their own self, and so open their own eyes.

And so it is the creative person who is addressed, their creativity, their freedom, their autonomy.

And this is only possible using the concept of art; however, this concept must be made more comprehensive. You cannot and should not deal with this concept traditionally and say: THAT is what artists do, and THAT is what engineers do. ... But you can get beyond the concept. And the only escape route is a more comprehensive concept of art that is anthropological and that is taken seriously: that everyone is an artist, and that every person has a creative core.

-Joseph Beuys