December 02, 2006
December 01, 2006
New Acquisition: Joseph Hughes
New Acquisition:
Joseph Hughes, 1992/IV, 1992, acrylic on canvas, 25.25 x 25.25 inches
New Acquisition: Mel Prest
New Acquisition:
Mel Prest, sm headlands scape, 2006, oil on panel, 5 x 5 x 1.75 inches
New Acquisition: Douglas Witmer
New Acquisition:
Douglas Witmer, Untitled (Cloud Cover) I, 2006, acrylic and gouache on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Mel Prest @ Branch Gallery
Mel Prest @ Branch Gallery, Durham, NC, November 17, 2006–January 6, 2007. Below is gouache on paper, roughly 22.5" square.
Witmer & Kirkland @ Red Door
Congratulations to Douglas Witmer and J.T. Kirkland, whose solo shows open today at Red Door Gallery in Richmond, VA.
William Tuggle
Artist William Tuggle and I have corresponded a few times over the past year. He is currently showing at The Tulare Historical Museum in Tulare, California. Below is an article published today in The Fresno Bee.
Artist combines abstract and digital work
By Mary Lou Aguirre / The Bee
12/01/06 04:33:27A look at the paintings inside the Tulare Historical Museum's gallery is sure to bring to mind Picasso. But the collection of abstract and digital artwork actually is by Long Beach artist William Tuggle. The "Nu Works Art" exhibit continues through the end of the year.
This is Tuggle's second one- man show at the museum. The first was in 2001, when he was 83. Tuggle is a former Tulare resident who graduated from Tulare Union High School in 1935.
The former beauty salon owner is self-taught. Tuggle returned to painting after closing the doors of his business after 40 years in 1998.
These days, he is creating paintings such as "Red, White and Blue." The painting features choppy images of the U.S. flag, barbed wire and an eye within geometric triangles and circles.
Tuggle, who also is a photographer, often mixes digital prints with acrylic paints to create collages. He talked about the blend of his artwork and computer software during a recent phone interview.
"I'm 89 years old, and you don't find many like me using a computer in any way," he says. "At first, it was just a struggle, but I was determined to learn it."
Tuggle says it was helpful to talk with digital image artist Maxine Olson of Kingsburg.
"She was very encouraging and said I could do anything on a computer," he says. "I can scan my earlier acrylic paintings, copy and paste parts and create a new piece of artwork."
He e-mailed photographs of his completed artwork to John F. Simon Jr., a noted New York-based digital artist whose work Tuggle was familiar with.
"My forte is design and composition," Tuggle says. "He e-mailed that he liked my work very much. It really made me feel good."
However, Tuggle isn't sure most local art collectors are ready for digital artwork.
"Only young people dig the art," he says. "Others might be reticent about this type of art. I may go back to my old art way and keep my fingers in this."
November 30, 2006
November 29, 2006
November 28, 2006
1-30 (Across the Borderline)
Douglas Witmer and I are working on drawings for our installation, Across the Borderline, at University of Dayton, OH, opening January 11. We are posting images to an AtB weblog, but Blogger, or something, is giving me trouble. See more there, but in the meantime, here are thirty recent drawings by me:
1-30, 2006, ink on unbound & unfolded notebook paper, 17.25 x 6 inches each
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