I hope that you’ll be able to attend the opening reception for my 2-person featured show at Artists’ Gallery on September 12, 2009, from 4pm-7pm.   This will be my first “featured” exhibit with the gallery since joining last year and my partner in art will be fellow painter, Marc Reed.  The exhibition runs from Friday, September 11, through Sunday, October 4, and the gallery is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11am-6pm, or by appointment.  Artists’ Gallery is located at 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, NJ.

I’d love to see you at the opening reception, so please save the date!

I recently finished this painting, Nebulous (acrylic on panel, 24×24 inches), and hope to exhibit it at Artists’ Gallery in July.  It’s difficult to capture the look of this piece in the online image as the painting is comprised of approximately a dozen layers of paint with lightly tinted glazes providing physical separation and depth to the mark-making.  The surface is super glossy and almost mirror-like.  For this painting, I was interested in working on a dark background and keeping the color scheme minimal, with light turquoise marks playing against the layers of very lightly tinted red glaze (hard to see in the online image).

Nebulous, acrylic on panel, 24x24 inches, 2009

For several years, I’ve wanted to create a painting based upon a photograph I took at SummerStage in New York perhaps five or six years ago.  Well, I’ve finally gotten around to it and here is the result.

An Opera in the Park, Acrylic on panel, 24x24 inches, 2009

For the June show at Artists’ Gallery, I’ll be exhibiting five small paintings, including this new one entitled Conscious Conscience:

Conscious Conscience, acrylic on panel, 12x12 inches, 2009

I’ve painted this image using a slightly different process than in most of my other paintings, though the difference will be hard to see in a reproduction.  This piece contains many layers of glazing to produce the color gradations (as opposed to palette-mixed colors), providing both a physical as well as optical depth to the painting.

Also on display is another recent work, Any Which Way, as well as Perceptual Present, Sines of the Time, and Yin/Yang.

The show runs from this Friday, June 5, through Sunday, July 5, and gallery hours (as usual) are Friday-Sunday from 11am-6pm (or by appointment).  The opening reception for this show, which features Alan Klawans and Michael Schweigart in the front room, will be on Saturday, June 6, from 2-7pm (CORRECTED TIMES).  Artists’ Gallery is located at 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, NJ.