Tag: painting
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Lifeworlds Update, and Gowanus Open Studios this Weekend!
It’s been a busy couple of weeks settling into my new studio space on 18th Street in Brooklyn and getting ready for this weekend’s Open Studio tour. I’ll have several recent works on view during the studio tour, among them several recent Lifeworld paintings. So, I’ve been looking at my writing about this long-term project,…
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Common Grave: A Painting Project – continued
Part II: The Composition and the Process As I mentioned in my previous post, a ‘cult of devotion’ developed around the skulls and bones found in the Fontanelle cemetery. It is very much a religious, or at least ‘cultic’ site. And why not? Why shouldn’t all these remains, representing the lives of real human beings,…
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Common Grave: A Painting Project
Part I: How it all started In January 2013, I had the good fortune of visiting the Fontanelle Cemetery – “Il cimitero delle Fontanelle (in napoletano, ‘e Funtanelle)” in Naples, Italy. This fantastic cemetery — really an ossuary — a repository of tens of thousands of human remains, is one of the more unique and…
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Find me on Artsy!
I’m pleased to announce that I now have a presence on Artsy, thanks to the efforts of Arts Gowanus, our local arts organization here in my neck of the woods in Brooklyn. Here is the URL for my Artsy page: https://www.artsy.net/arts-gowanus/artist/john-azelvandre For starters, I have listed 10 paintings for sale on the site. I intend…
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ArtsGowanus Atlantic Artwalk a Big Success!
ArtsGowanus partnered with the Atlantic Avenue BID to create a safe, socially distanced art venue along the length of Atlantic Avenue. I was pleased to be able participate. I’ve uploaded some selected photos from opening day (October 17, 2020) to my Flickr photostream. Enjoy!
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Upcoming event! Join me at the Circle Show!
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be participating in a group show in Brooklyn which opens November 9th. “The Circle Show” will feature work that is entirely circular! I created some circular pieces back in 2014 for a group endeavor I participated in on Governor’s Island, and I was just thinking earlier this year how…
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Invitation: Support me on Patreon and win this painting!
Back at the beginning of November 2017, I launched my Patreon page: Introducing my New Patreon Page! It’s off to a very good start, and for some time now, I’ve entertained the idea of raffling off some of my paintings to patrons. But in order for that to be really fun and interesting and worthwhile,…
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Something very last minute — My art during Gowanus Open Studios
Hello everyone! I had not planned to show any work during this year’s Gowanus Open Studios (happening this weekend, October 20-22), but a last minute opportunity presented itself. Abby Subak, Director of Arts Gowanus, reached out to artists who formerly had studios in Gowanus, and asked us to participate as “Gowanus Emeritus Artists” in the…
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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
This week’s featured painting is “Reach” — a triptych I created in 2012. This painting and some other square format paintings I created then were precursors to my Lifeworld series, and should almost be considered honorary members of the series.
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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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See my work during Art Slope!
I’m pleased to announce that my work is appearing at The Ploughman in Park Slope, Brooklyn as a part of Art Slope, a week-long arts festival in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Ploughman offers Artisanal Cheese / Charcuterie / Craft Beer and Beer on Tap. It’s located at 438 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, between 14th and 15th Streets.…