Tees for the Fins

T-Shirts for the Findells 

While I was in Staunton we printed some tees for the Fins. The first design fuses the lyrics from their wonderful song, “Helen of Troy” off the “Lost in Paradise” album with my painting “Eurydice’s Dance”. Classical Greece meets rock n’ roll. Yes!

The second is from a scratchboard of Adam and Eve that became a design for the Spanish language version of the Fins “Naked with You”.

Lyrics from “Naked with You” are featured in the third design that was taken from illustrations I did for Jean-Pierre Galland’s book entitled “Fumée Clandestine” (published by Ramsay in 1991). It’s a wink at Manet’s “Déjeuner sur l’Herbe”. The double meaning is “lost in translation” into the English “Lunch on (the) Grass”.

Check out the Findells’ great music (put on your dancing shoes) and the other good stuff at http://findells.com/home.html

Exhibition May 22 – July 7 2009

BSSS Gallery – 22 Beverly Street – Staunton, Virginia

It’s back “home” to Staunton for a show this spring. Photos taken from Paris, Tucson, and Staunton have been sources for this work. Inspiration from the Findell’s cd “Lost in Paradise”, from tales of Dora and her cabin in Nelson County, from my neighborhood in Paris, and wanderings in and around Tucson, with overlays from the classic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice. It’s a mixed (media) bag – paintings, drawings, prints and ink jet prints mixed with painting, pastel, and charcoal.

Whispers - photo from Dora's cabin-ink jet, paint, charcoal and pastel

Home Front - photo of Paris apartment. Ink jet, charcoal, pastel and paint

“La Table Ronde” – models, poetry, studio and students

Website

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http://janolssonart.com/

Monumenta-Richard Serra

two women and steel

June 5, 2008 – visited Richard Serra’s installation in the Grand Palais,”Promenade”. Watched dancers ask the question: ‘How do you dance with a partner over 50 feet tall, flat, made of steel?’ A life question with several degrees of appropriateness. Continued on foot to the Tuileries where a curved piece is installed in alignment with the obalisque at the Place de la Concorde.

 

 

Art Paris

ArtParis-Opening Night at the Grand Palais-April 2, 2008

                     

 

Memorial

 Remembering Sean O’Donnell – January 25, 2008

 friend, muse, artist…and in his own words “a pasteographer/plagarist”. He’s greatly missed.

Review

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Arts/Content?oid=oid:104531

 A link to Margaret Regan’s review of the Davis Dominguez Exhibtion from the Tucson Weekly.

 Images of works mentioned in the article:

     

Opening Night

Davis Dominguez Gallery – December 1 2007

 

  ”Tout Tucson” came out for our show….see Exhibitions page

Tucson studio

Mounting the November-January show in Tucson