has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Prehistoric Dancers
60Hx40W inches In predynastic Egypt of the fifth millenium B.C. small clay figurines in a similar pose evoked the mystery of ritual dance. As I painted this piece I thought of primitive tribal dances where men wearing headdresses with horns performed before their clan, and I overlapped the figures.
But, It's The Latest Style
40x60 inches: Fashions ! Graffiti is the style of painting that I use. It is as different from Abstract Expressionism, another contemporary American style, as Italian renaissance garments were from ancient Egyptian hats.
Eve & Adam
96x60' inches : I used a graffiti style on a frequent Renaissance theme of the expulsion from Paradise. Eve berates Adam for eating the apple while making a fashion statement with a leafy limb.
21st Century Mona Lisa
80"Hx60"W : A graffiti style requires requires swift comprehension. Since most people walk by a graffiti without stopping, the graffiti artist must say what he has to say quickly. This Mona Lisa's smile has an instantaneous message.
Love, Mona Lisa
30x48'': These posters of Mona Lisa were bought in a tourist gift shop in the subway arcade below Times Square for six dollars apiece. The red graffiti spells "love'' backwards. "Toy" is a term used by another graffiti artist who questions the quality of the graffiti. It is the type of graffiti work that is often called vandalism.
Missed!
60H"x90W'': On the Sistine chapel ceiling Michelangelo painted Adam reaching out to God. Their fingers approach each other. I paint Eve reaching out to the goddess whose arm whizzes by without touching Eve. A missed opportunity!
Durer's Nightmare
60"Hx90''W: The issues of war and peace are not standard graffiti subjects. However, the swift pace of events in an armed conflict is in keeping with the swiftness of execution of a graffiti style.
Flora
40"Hx 30''W: When Rembrandt painted his wife as Flora, he could not have imagined that someone would see it in New York"s Metropolitan Museum four hundred years later and make it a fitting subject for a graffiti. Rembrandt could have been a great street artist.
Anatomy Lesson,
40x60'': Single stroke graffiti lines, bold statement, work that cannot be easily destroyed, large simple format. These are the elements of a graffiti style.
El Greco's Toledo
2009
60"Hx 90''W: El Greco's "View Of Toledo" at the Metopolitan Museum Of Art in New York City is a beautifully nuanced painting. It was a pleasure to work with.
