Alias Arts

A documentary on the progress of a layer of clay descending a dune

Oil on maple, 24 x 18 inches

For more than a decade, we have been watching a layer of clay slowly descending a slope of the Empire Bluff. Usually, the ‘necklace’ stands out as a vegetation-free band. But on …

A natural riverside park were I went to relax – a long time ago.

Hoping for inspiration while writing a grant,

walking with my yellow lab who died a decade ago,

looking at a house nestled on a cliff across the river into which friends eventually moved but Connie died a couple …

Had trouble for awhile signing on. Seems the problem has been cleared up.

In celebration allow me to include this view of a cathedral interior that I’m planning to sneak into my library show before it is taken down.

My friend Genji offered to handcraft a small wooden box for me. Given the choice of colors, I selected red and yellow, the autumn colors of maple leaves. The design that Genji thought would appeal to me, based on examples of my favorite art shared with him, is the zig-zag …

This is about one of those laboratory experiments that just beg for word play in the article title. I resist. Perhaps it helps to be months removed from the publication date of the latest results; the bookmark would have been long since forgotten, except that I boldly left it at …

oil on maple panel, 40 cm x 50 cm

Improvised from a photograph this winter taken near Otter Creek in the Sleeping Bear Dunes.

Colors were mixed from Ultramarine blue, Manganese violet, Turner yellow, Chinese Lake, white and black. None of the mixtures displayed even the slighted hint of green.

Having …

In Praise of Trees is the name of my show with printmaker Kerry Corcoran, which opened about a week ago at the Bozeman Public Library. The Atrium Gallery is essentially the combined entrance halls from two sides of the new (environmentally-certified) building, resulting in a broad, L-shaped space intended for …

It’s a nice coincidence that Steve and I should both be showing in libraries.

My son Matt, an employee of the Cleveland Heights/UniversityHeights Main Library, passed on the news that the library had prepared some gallery spaces in the old YMCA building across the street. I was urged to contact the …

The dreamings of the Australian aboriginines represent a kind of art that goes to the core of their identities. To the extent that that represents any kind of  an accurate description, allow me to state that these images are at something of an opposite extreme in that they play around …

Children’s Water Dreaming 1972, 62 x 44 cm, Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi

Aborigines used Australia’s wealth in ochre colors (iron oxides) to paint their mythologies on sand, cut bark of stringybark tree and their bodies. In 1972, acrylic paints and masonite boards were made available to a few Aboriginal men congregating …