Tuesday, July 30, 2002

I updated my galleries with stuff I've painted over the last 6 months or so - you can see this body of work here. Some of my earlier stuff is travelling the country in a show called 'Revelations and Reflections of American Self-Taught Artists.' I'm in the company of backwoods crackpots like Finster and Tolliver - imagine, a sophisti-cat like me! To see a schedule of the shows, you have to pick through a pdf which shows lots of shows to find the 'Revelations' venue here. I'm also having a show of about 15 pieces (all from the collection of my biggest patron, a Texas rancher) at St. Lawrence University this fall. I'm not sure what they're going to call it yet - maybe Breenapalooza or something like that. I'll be on the premises for 2 days, painting a Breen on location! More to come soon. I've completed a few paintings since my last blog.



About 24"X20" acrylic on oil? on canvas. Text says, "Satan serenaded the Virgin Mary with songs of love! But Jesus disapproved of his mother dating a musician!" Jesus says, "He has no future!" This is a reprise of an earlier work with the same text, except, I breened myself, and added the last part about Jesus disapproving of musicians, which wasn't on the original. I started this a couple of months ago, ran out of gas, then picked it up again and recently finished it.


The above 2 have already sold, but I have one still up . One of my best works if I do say so myself:

The text says, "Wendy is concerned about you!"Jesus says,"Were all concerned!" Satan says, "I agree." Frame lurker says,"wise up!"

Lately, with all the stuff going on in my life, I've gotten out of my painting routine, which like writing, is a discipline. You just have to make the time for it and do it. For a couple of months I didn't paint anything and I got an email from a concerned friend basically telling me to get off my ass and keep creating. She assumed I was depressed but really I was just lazy, or more accurately, lost momentum and fell prone to my natural inert state.

When I first saw this portrait, I was entranced by the look of concern on her face, which, if you look another time, appears to be a subtle smirk of the 'don't you dare laugh' variety. Above on the frame, heads are hooked on booze drugs and gambling, coffin head threatens from the side while bleeding hearts rain on a depressed, weeping guy. Pink elephant is appears to have vomited on Wendy, but that is just my son's contribution, which I left. Death stars line the bottom, which is my one big fear - a comet or asteroid hitting the earth - turning the atmosphere the temperature of a broiler oven!The cyclops fish stands as an accusing silent witness to all the fish I've killed for the fun of it as a fisherman. I started the clubs in silver, then painted over in a more visible color, the remnant of the first club remains.

To bid on this painting, go to Ebay HERE. Bidding ends August 2.

posted by Eddie 7/30/2002 03:54:56 PM