I’ve been toying around for some time with ways to paint from photographs. I’m regularly inspired by paintings of people (Modigliani especially, but other contemporary painters as well). I love the way, in painting and drawing, that an artist can abstract and manipulate what is before him. This is the first completed piece in this...
geez, Fritz! Must you be so talented? This is lovely.
Over the past few months, as my work on the series Skeleton in the Closet has progressed, I’ve received quite a few encouraging emails and comments. These come from people who have participated in the series, people who have viewed the work online, and people who have come to the gallery shows. While I’ve been...
I was just looking through the new Pacific NW College of Art catalog for Winter 2008. They included a photo of one of my studio lighting classes (I’m the blue chest on the right), and a sweet little quote from one of my student evaluations. This January/February, I’ll be teaching my Environmental Portrait class. Here’s...
Selected images from the series Skeleton in the Closet will be on display at Portland’s DaVinci Arts Middle School from November 13-December 8. These photographs (including new work recently completed) will be in the Library, and in display cases around the school. It will also be on display during the annual DaVinci Arts Fair. During...
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Cool. I have some friends who didn’t make it over to PSU to see it before, so now maybe they’ll be able to see your showing.
Jeffrey Overstreet is a film critic, author, and connoisseur of and commentator on the arts. He has several very popular blogs. And on one of them, Eagle and Child, he’s posted an interview he did with me recently, on my series Skeleton in the Closet. You can read the interview here. I also noticed another...
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