Tag: landscape
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Announcing this year’s Gowanus Open Studios – My Farewell to Brooklyn
Hello everyone, it is that time of year once again: summer draws to an end and leaves fall. Old lives depart and new beginnings approach. Once again, as a culmination of the 2024-25 art year, Gowanus Open Studios is happening October 18-19, 12-6pm. This year’s Open Studios is special for me, as it will be my last. After…
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Time-Being, an Artist’s Statement
During Gowanus Open Studios next weekend (October 19-20), I’ll have on display my growing body of 4×6″ watercolor pieces. These are all part of a series and project I started in about 2018, and then worked on sporadically up to the present. The project continues, indefinitely (or until I have exhausted the subject matter). Very…
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Gowanus Open Studios is Coming, October 19-20!
This October 19th-20th, please join me at the 28th Annual Gowanus Open Studios! Hosted by Arts Gowanus, Gowanus Open Studios is Brooklyn’s biggest celebration of local art and artists; hundreds of artists across dozens of venues in the greater Gowanus neighborhood will open their doors, giving the public a rare glimpse inside the former factories,…
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How I Spent My Summer
It’s interesting how often events and projects don’t quite roll out as I imagine they will. These past nine months have been a perfect example of that. I always begin the year plotting a course, imagining what projects I’d like to finish, continue or start, what new creative possibilities I should pursue. Back in January,…
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Studio Notes: Moku hanga progress!
Last spring I mentioned that I was rekindling a relief printmaking practice — specifically, Japanese woodblock (“Moku hanga“), and I have indeed been spending a lot of time on this over the past year or so. Printmaking is very process-oriented, and it can take a long time (at least for me) to get finished results.…
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![[Re-]Introducing Manomayakaya #3 – “Let it pervade everywhere”](http://azelvandre.net/artistseye/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/mmk3-6.jpg)
[Re-]Introducing Manomayakaya #3 – “Let it pervade everywhere”
Important Update, May 1, 2023: After thoughtful consideration, Arts Gowanus has decided to pull the plug on our Artsy gallery, referenced in the post below. The Artsy site will be up just until May 15, after which time the links below will no longer work. Welcome to March 2023! Somehow, 10 years has elapsed since…
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Pinhole research – December chill
I’ve recently started up again with some explorations in digital pinhole photography. How this works is: you take a digital SLR, take off the lens and replace it with a modified body cap that serves as the ‘pinhole.’ (I don’t recall where I purchased the pinhole cap, but if you Google ‘digital pinhole – Nikon‘…
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Painting of the week: “Osage chiasm”
This week’s featured painting is an odd one I created way back in 2009. “Osage chiasm” (that’s chiasm not chasm) is 20″H by 16″W, and is acrylic on canvas. The piece is essentially a stylized portrait of one of my favorite trees: a very old Osage orange that lives on the Nethermead in Prospect Park,…
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Featured painting of the week: The House is Burning
This week’s featured work is a painting — actually a diptych (two paintings that form one work) titled “The House is Burning.” The provocative title should make one think immediately of global warming – climate change. That’s certainly appropriate, but there’s even more to the story. Now seems like a good time feature this painting,…
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Breaking News: De-Natured, at the Old Stone House
Sorry for the last-minute announcement, but this all came together very quickly: I’m pleased to let you know that I will have work included in a show at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The show opens TONIGHT (October 15), 6-8pm. About the show: Nature is often bent to man’s needs and wants.…
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The Lifeworlds Project
Lifeworlds is a long-range painting project I started in 2012. The project started initially out of a desire to explore the square format in painting. The inspiration for this was not Instagram as one might easily suppose, but the square format Landscape paintings of Gustav Klimt. I then chanced upon the evocative term “Lifeworld” in…
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Project: 365
Back in October, I started a new, year-long project to document my ongoing practice of visual exploration. I think of this exploration as central to the work of the artist. I’m calling the project simply “365” and the end result (to the extent that a project like this ever ends) will be 365 small watercolors presented at this…