Flash(way)back Fridays

"Olga's World"

4.5' x 12'

1983

'Olga' developed as this sort of self-deprecated alter-ego during my junior year at Herron School of Art, and she pretty much propelled my first group of large scale paintings. One professor described her as a Middle Ages scrub woman. Oh, and I also was into Alex Katz, and who can resist an opportunity to riff on Wyatt?

Correction: Wyeth.

Still Molesting 'Finished' Work

47" x 57"

This painting from 2007 seemed too unresolved, so I gave her another go, and actually maintained the genreal gist of the piece. I'm conflicted about the blue foreground and upper framing elements. I can't quite decide if these are integral to something I am doing, or if they're fulfilling an artistic identity goal/role. Or maybe my pondering such motivations is puritanical, and I should just get on with the next piece (another rework). I'm letting this one set up and dry.

Garden Porn

Slag-a-lishess

Flashback Fridays

House of Zod

Land of Poetry and Harmless Snakes

Wading Pond

Victorian Grey

Spelunker

Some work from the 1990s. All smallish - 12"-24". Most of my artistic output, from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, has been rooted in metaphysical/metaphorical imagery, and I do plan on continuing with this, along with my explorations in formal abstraction.

BWP-details

The color and general representation was so far off in my previous post of this piece, I had to repost.

EDE painting

Retrodites, 10" x 10"

Another EDE (Evolutionary Dead Ends) painting, for another auction, this one a benefit my alma mater, Herron School of Art and Design.

Bastardized Whore Princess (The Make-over)

Estro-Genie, or

Bastardized Whore Princess, once referred to as:

ID 5

60" x 51"

I began my re-working of this painting a couple months ago, flipped her upright, and boobified the imagery. Done.

Carolyn Springer

Red violet Roses with Lambs ears, 23 3/4 x 48 in.

encaustic, sea salt, and gold leaf on plaster and wood panel

French Mauve Still Life, 38 x 48 in.

encaustic, sea salt, and gold leaf on plaster and wood panel

Flowers for Antoinette, 16 x 16 in.

encaustic, bees wax, sea salt, on plaster, canvas, and wood panel

Flowers of Anais, 42 x 42 in.

encaustic, silver leaf, plaster, on canvas and wood panel

A new favorite local artist! View more of Carolyn Springer's work here. She is currently a faculty member at University of Indianapolis and at Herron School of Art & Design.

I happened upon some of her paintings in person, at the Harrison Center. As you can imagine from the materials listed, these works have an amazing physical presentation. I love the combo of such lavishly rough handling with the naive rendition style. In person these have some very intense optical spatial characteristics; the table planes cut your face in two. You gotta love that.

Film tonight at Earthhouse

thomas pynchon - a journey into the mind of [p.]
a film by Fosco and Donatello Dubini

Free
7pm
Thursday May 7
237 N. East Street
www.earthhousecollective.org

(go in to the church...)

Affordable Party House in Frankfort, IN

$24,900.

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1537 Sq. Ft.

Lot acreage .65

MLS Number 2904045

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Town Hall Meeting

At Midland Arts and Antiques, 907 E. Michigan St., Indianapolis, through June 13, 2009.