http://rememberxyz.com Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:05:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Reader, I'd like to introduce you to some of the painters who have influenced my work. You see, whenever someone sees any sort of splash of paint, invariably they only relate to Jackson Pollack, who did throw a lot of pigment around, but he had a very purposeful reason ... http://rememberxyz.com/2010/08/02/summer-paintings/ A batch of paintings made for a recent show. These were done in the Spring of 2010 and I am really quite happy with how they turned out. Many are still available if you happen upon this and would like one, reach out to me. Thanks to all the well ... http://rememberxyz.com/2010/05/09/rickis-thirteen/ It's been 20 years since I built my first stretcher and started to express myself in creative terms. Throughout the spring and summer of 2009 I had been meeting new strangers who enjoy the work. The continuing affirmation was inspiring. These smaller pieces on paper were made for an artists ... http://rememberxyz.com/2009/09/14/as-a-child-as-a-man/ After a long season of compression leading up to the finish line, a huge sigh of relief on the outcome and change of direction. The reality is in the details, and the sign of any good judgment is, both sides feel robbed - but having an adult discourse is unusually ... http://rememberxyz.com/2009/03/29/winter-of-contentedness/ The fall of 08 had a show of my new work from the summer. Some pictures were related to my travels, but the larger pieces spoke to the emotions floating around during the time they were created. There was a lot of image flinging leading up to a November playoff ... http://rememberxyz.com/2008/09/17/upcoming-show-at-touchstone/ Our crew in school was always real tight. Still are. We weren't normal that's for sure. I got into a jag with a cat once about whether those experiences were really worth it when it's all said and done. I guess some people had trouble keeping their wig on, so ... http://rememberxyz.com/2007/04/20/dont-crush-that-dwarf/ "When you're painting, you have a central thought that pulls in various kinds of details, and that's the way you make a painting. You go in a direction, and you gather up whatever you need to move that way. It's not necessarily that you have planned to make a picture ... http://rememberxyz.com/2007/04/19/its-not-him-its-me/ I was talking with Giorgio one night. He probably knows as much about art and artists as anyone else I know. He took me to MOMA one time and we were looking at a giant Motherwell. I was having trouble understanding it. He patiently asked me to examine the language ... http://rememberxyz.com/2007/04/17/dinner-for-40/ Leaving the 90's, we left the city. It was 13 years and time for a change. Although I missed the charge you get living in the city, there is wear that is associated with it. It wasn't so much fleeing as a re-associating with an environment I grew up in. ... http://rememberxyz.com/2007/04/14/brookhaven/ As it happened I was spending a lot of time in and around the city of Key West. Whole chunks of time from 1977 onward. Weeks and months of living, fishing, conch biking, hanging out in bars owned by close friends, getting stung by a scorpion, Pernot puffs, and Cristal ... http://rememberxyz.com/2007/04/13/mohawk-further-along/