Alias Arts

I collaborated with my friends Jonathan Nodrick and Anita Modha of ROLLOUT Custom Wallpaper in Vancouver on a project that’s currently on view in Toronto. The exhibition, entitled Radiant Dark 2010, is on view January 21-24, and runs concurrently …

In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about how Soutine’s use of Christian imagery mixed with his life experiences, artistic influences and his own Jewish culture in his paintins, particularly his carcass paintings such as Flayed Rabbit from 1924. …

Tic Tac Toe was a mess. This 40″ by 56″ foam painting was colorful, but wrongly so. The smiley faces were in yellow, the mugs in violet and the grid in a mixture of the two colors, all set upon a motley background pretending to whiteness.   With nothing to lose …

Hi everyone. Happy New Year! Sorry I’ve been out of touch. Working working working…

Here’s a painting I just finished. Also, I’ve started a fan page on Facebook for David Palmer Studio. If you’re on FB, stop …

In ‘Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color’, Philip Ball discusses the problems that artists can run into by not paying enough attention to the craft of painting. A 20th century example are Mark Rothko’s Harvard murals that, painted in dark pink and crimson, turned light blue – …

In the book, Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl, Yekhezkel Kotik shares his memories of living in a shtetl not far from Soutine’s home of Smilovitchi in what is now Lithuania and what was once the part of Tsarist Russia that held on desperately to …

Parked about the place, doing a slow burn, has been a dubious project. It is a deconstruction of sorts wherein an ordered and functional format is scrambled.

It contains the elements of a compass including a round face. The letters designating the cardinal directions, however, are congregated in a pattern that …

Finely ground black sand overlies coarser light sand at a particular location along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Rough surf paints in black sand.

Starting this post, I thought that I would not dare to take these sand paintings of a Great Lake as motifs for my own oil painting. …

The artist Chaim Soutine’s still life paintings of animals, what I prefer to call his carcass paintings, can be unsettling, especially given the fact that Soutine was known to have never worked from memory, but rather used live, or dead, models for all …

I’m back in Portland, Oregon, from my six-week Nevada sojourn. But I haven’t unpacked my big linen canvases yet. I am almost afraid to do so, fearing that they are completely banal, hence total failures (banality is worse for me than bad).

In part, this reluctance has to do with various …