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Interview/Slideshow re: CSMA Arts for All Marathon

This was a fun interview in the context of my participation in the CSMA Arts for All Marathon this year.

Interview/Slideshow

Article

from last night's Paint Off to benefit Ithaca Festival 2011

Good Evening, Hockey Fans! opens this Friday, March 4, 2011, 5 to 8pm

Please join me at the opening of my new art exhibit -- Good Evening, Hockey Fans! -- a show of paintings inspired by many years of watching Cornell's Big Red Men's Ice Hockey team at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, New York.

Feel free to click (and print) the poster, at left, to share with your friends and coleagues at work.  You can also help me spread the word of the show on facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=130509040338444 -- by inviting your hockey-loving facebook friends to the show.

I hope to see you at the opening this coming Friday, March 4th, from 5 to 8pm and also at my artists's talk on Monday, March 21st, from 6:30 to 7:30pm.  All events to be held at the CAP ArtSpace, 171 Ithaca Commons (right in Center Ithaca on the downtown Ithaca Commons).

Sketch from today's podcast

 

and, today's podcast . . . . http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11097468

Check Out the Self-Portrait Issue of Poets & Artists Magazine

Open publication - Free publishing - More poets

I'm lucky enough to be featured (p. 60) in the September issue with some artists I admire.  You can find this issue and back issues of Poets & Artists at www.poetsandartists.com.

So I . . .

. . . put my legal career on hold because I was tired of typing 10 reports a day and tired of words.  I focussed on being an artist because I was of the firm belief that a picture spoke a thousand words and that the last thing that was required was writing of any kind.

I mean, really, why bother with an artist statement.  Imagine if John Lennon or Paul Simon wrote something independent of their songs to tell us what the songs meant.  We'd hate it.  It would dilute the art, no?  Why do people love artist statements, then?  Dunno why.

So I started this blog to write about my art and now realize that for some months I haven't written a thing about my art.  I think that is an accomplishment.  Let's leave it at that.