Ad in American Art Collector (June 2012)

Check out this ad designed by Michelle Satterlee, gallery director at the Elliott Fouts Gallery. I think it was exactly a year ago that I mentioned that I appreciate her design skills. This ad is featured in the June 2012 issue of American Art Collector magazine.

I'll share the article in the coming week, along with more info on the show.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Here is another round of progress photos of a few paintings I've been working on and some details on upcoming shows.

20+ new paintings will be exhibiting at the Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento, California for the month of June. I'll be sharing the completed paintings in a few short weeks.

After that I'll have 3 paintings in a group exhibition at the Washington County Museum of Fine Art, starting in August.

In September I have an exhibition of several of my book paintings at the Bakersfield Museum of Art.

And finally, in late November I'll have another solo exhibition in Los Angeles. I'll share more details about these shows as they near. In the meantime, I've got my work cut out for me.

Some recent progress photos...

I'd like to share some recent progress photos.

I've been in the studio every single day for the last 2 months, working on numerous paintings. My exhibition schedule this year is busy, to say the least. I am participating in four exhibitions, three of which are solo shows.

The first solo will be my fourth annual June exhibition at the Elliott Fouts Gallery in Sacramento, California. I'm proud (and a little astonished) to say I'm working on painting number 15 of the 20 that will be in that show.

I'll share more info about the other three exhibitions in the coming months. But first I have to focus completely on painting.

 

So in the meantime, I'm going to disappear from the world of social media again and stick my nose back up to the easel.

I'm starting to wonder if my neighbors are aware that I rarely leave the house.

If it wasn't for my wife, I'd have no social life at all.

Group Show - George Billis Gallery, LA

Happy New Year!

I'm starting the year participating in a group show at the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles from January 7 - February 11, 2012.

Antique Books I

30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

Available through the George Billis Gallery, LA

Antique Books II

30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

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Find the gallery — click here for a map. If you are in the LA area, please check out the gallery and paintings.

I am showing five new paintings featuring books. The two paintings above depict 17th and 18th century historical essay and natural history texts. Below are primary school texts from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Equality, The World of Today

18" x 36"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

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Brave and Bold, The Early Modern World

18" x 36"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

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Anything Can Happen, Down The Road

30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011

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Antique Swedish Telephone

This past summer, I received this magnificent early Swedish telephone as a gift from a long time collector in California. It's a fantastic telephone and a great addition to my growing collection. I think it would look great painted along side some other telephones in a larger painting.

Antique Swedish Telephone
24" x 20"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011
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Red Dot Fair - Miami

I will have three paintings showing at the Red Dot art fair in Miami from November 30 - December 4, 2011.

The first is with the George Billis Gallery out of Los Angeles:

Anything Can Happen, Down The Road
30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011
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As well as the two Coke paintings that were recently showing at Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta:

The Stars Will Always Shine
30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011
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In Perfect Harmony
30" x 30"  |  Oil/Canvas  |  2011
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