My full size digital paintings on canvas are all original, not a series. These rolled canvas prints invoke ancient East Asia art with a modern computer art. Shorts series of small prints are available.
INSPIRATION
I am inspired by the cosmos and the elements of life, the macro & micro world. Macro encompasses expansive views from above or a distance including maps, land-scape and aerial photography. Micro is the word of the small, closeup i.e. electron microscope photos of cells or even the surface of a butterfly wing. In the art world, I look to great printmaking artist like Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec and the paintings of Van Gogh, Klee, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Rothko and Frankenthaler.
A CAREER WITH COMPUTERS
My portfolio is filled computer based websites, logos, newsletters, laid news-paper & magazine layout, package & ad design, as well as editing video & audio. In addition, I record my voice and edited audio & video on the computer co-produced radio comedy & documentaries.
THE EVOLUTION OF ART & TECHNOLOGY
All along, art has been created with tools & mechanical devises. It has evolved from cave painting with plant and mineral pigments, to painting on paper and canvas. Apparatus’ have been created for chiseling and shaping wood, solid stone & metal for sculptures and jewelry We have always expressed ourselves with these contraptions. Later printmaking developed and moved from wood blocks to engraving on metal plates, lithography with stone to screen printing with silk fabric. The it advanced into pattern weaving, player pianos, type setting, typewriters to photography. Photography blossomed into filmmaking, mimeographs, video, photo-copiers and computer printers. Since, art has also been made on computers. And my discovery of computers in college, over 30 years ago, it has been my medium of choice as well.
A MULTIMEDIA PROGRESSION
The first year at the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) I first worked traditionally. Using pen & paper, woodblocks & ink and paint & canvas. My second year, I discovered the new computer lab. I quickly began making art on the Macintosh computer. During a combo assignment with video and the taped movement of painting with a mouse came an illustration. My third semester in the painting & printmaking department I investigated every technique. And using photocopied transparencies exposed on silkscreens, I collaged. In my fourth year, I continued my mélange of imagery in the darkroom onto photopaper. Using slide mounts filled with sand, salt and sugar, and more color transparences of micro and macro photography I made something new in the darkroom. During graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) I continued creating multimedia videos and films. After graduating I performed and projected hand drawn animations, video and props for Diavolo Dance Theater. At Philips Media, designing CD-ROM games, I mastered Photoshop. Three years ago, I began to paint again on my smartphone. And after buying a tablet computer, I again am collaging drawings, brushwork, textures and photographs.
PAST SHOWS
Perennial Places First Friday’s, Crossroads, KCMO Aug -Oct 2018
Studio Above First Friday’s, Crossroads, KCMO May 2018
Daren + Co. First Friday’s, Crossroads, KCMO March 2018
BDC Tattoo Final Friday’s, Lawrence, KS November 2017
Mobile Locksmith Final Friday’s, Lawrence, KS July 2017
Ellenville Windows Ellenville, NY June 2011
DIGIAL PAINTINGS
Moon Walk Canvas 36 X 33
From Above 10k Feet Canvas 30 X 40
Deer Spine Paper 20 X 24
Thanks Nasa Paper 20 X 16
Black Sheep Find Each Other Canvas 24 X 33
Brandt It Paper 20 X 16
Even More Than Before Canvas 20 X 24
Down by The Damb Paper 12 X 18
Even More Holes Canvas 18 X 24
Mike Angelo And Halftone Canvas 18 X 24
Inside Details Canvas 18 X 24
Dotty and Bumpy Canvas 18 X 24
SAMPLE IMAGES ON GOOGLE DRIVE: https://goo.gl/agqnfx
