Recent Events: Winter 2014
1. My paintings were featured in the Sandra Lee Gallery booth
at the
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair-an international art fair held Feb 13-16, 2014
at the Convention Center in Palm Springs, California.
2. From January 9, 2014 until February 28, 2014, at the Sandra Lee Gallery in San Francisco, California, my paintings were included in a group exhibition along with work by Kathryn Arnold, Henry Jackson, Irena Kononova, Jeremy Morgan, Jeffrey Palladini, Hyun Su Park, Daniel Phill, George Rivera, Jungsan Senim and others.
5. On Friday, December 13th, 2013 we chased away the demons with an inspiring book reading at
Book Soup on Sunset in Hollywood with the presentation of “Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey into Day”, which includes my essay “Night Painting”. And at
Book Passage in Corte Madera on December 18, 2013 at 7 pm we brought the house down with another inspired event.
This marvelous book, edited by Phil Cousineau, includes an inspiring array of essays and poems: including pieces by Vincent Van Gogh, Walt Whitman, Pico Iyer, Rabandranath Tagore, Mary Oliver, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jorge Borges, William Blake, Mikkel Aaland, Kent Chadwick, Alexander Eliot, Jane Winslow Eliot, Li Po, Antler, Annie Dillard, Charles Bukowski, R B Morris, Willis Barnstone, Bruce Chatwin, James Norwood Pratt, Tess Harper, Stuart Balcomb, Richard Beban, Gregg Chadwick, and more.
More on “Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey into Day” on
NPR's Weekend Edition.
6. Saatchi Art featured my painting
Il Poeta di Milano at Dwell on Design, America’s largest design event, at the Los Angeles Convention Center - June 21-23, 2013. The event was curated by the editors of
Dwell magazine.
7. My paintings were showcased in the Sandra Lee Gallery booth
at artMRKT San Francisco - an international art fair held May 16-19, 2013 in the Festival Pavilion - Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California.
8. I spoke at the “Categorically Not” event on
Sunday May 19, 2013 at the Santa Monica Art Studios about my painting process and “what lies beneath” the layers of paint and the layers of ideas that go into each of my works. The event was held in the Arena One Gallery. You can see more on this event at the
Categorically Not website.
10. Review by Jeffrey Carlson in Fine Art Connoisseur: