This showing is a first for me. It’s the first showing of my tobacco sticks indoors. My friend Rick conceived of the vertical hanging for the reception area in his business and proposed the idea. The technical doing of the installation included gallery hanging using filament, tiny metal securing collars, tubing, and fishing lure weights. […]
The wide rim of this frame started the piece. To me it was a runway for text. An open blank. WHAT DO MEN NOT HAVE?, 2001, was painted the five days prior to 9/11. The frame came first in the creative process. In the culture of my heritage questions are powerful things, veritably the language of […]
In early 2002 I became Art Zen’s first featured artist. Proximity helped. The gallery was on my block. That’s my art in the window. Working with Lily was a blast. For the opening at the gallery I did up shoes for her to wear, pictured below. That’s my dad visiting the gallery and my work […]
My childhood chum, Kevin Eng, lived one block over from me growing up. It’s remarkable how time takes people in direction that no longer cross paths. I did this square to celebrate his family and to say thanks for sharing my younger school years with me. There are now grand-children in the family. ENG […]
During my early advertising days I worked with Steve Jobs on NeXT computers. I was working as a copywriter at the ad agency Ammirati & Puris and for this client I wrote print ads and the sole tv commercial A&P created for NeXT. Recently I found that script. It’s dated November 17, 1989. The commercial was never produced. It’s a 30 second spot and the script, […]
Modern mosaic masterpieces are now permanently affixed to the walls of the new 2nd Ave subway station at 86th St. And they are glorious. At the helm of this subway’s art direction is the artist Chuck Close. He’s known for large portraits of head-on facial shots. Huge faces eight feet tall. Here his work is done in mosaic and […]
As soon as I heard that the National Museum of African American History & Culture was opening I went to their website assuming it existed and would be open too. It was. Featured was a timed-ticket sign up to visit the museum. They were offering the first batch of passes ever offered to the general public. I couldn’t resist. […]
In 2005, Village Voice covers became canvas to me. I’m sure it wasn’t the Village Voice’s first preference for their paper to be used as material in an artist’s work. But it happened. I was able to engage because they existed. And I’m glad it did. These have never been shown publicly. They’re a time […]