Closing Reception at Gallaudet University

Tomorrow, Sept. 21st, is the closing reception for the group show, A Vision That Smells of Soap, I have been a part of for the past month at the  Washburn Arts Center, Linda K. Jordan Gallery at Gallaudet University. The reception runs from 5-8pm and will have food and drink.

Please find directions here.

Below are two of my newest paintings from my Solitaire series that are on display there.

Solitaire: Routine

(16"x20" acrylic on gesso board)

Solitaire:  Family

(16"x20" acrylic on gesso board)

The Last of 8 Theater J illustrations

In April, I was hired by Theater J to create 8 illustrations; one for each play in their 2012-2013, taking over for Waltz with Bashir art director and illustrator David Polonsky. Because of time issues, I was asked to create line drawings with some shading instead of paintings.

The eightth play of the season is The Hampton Years by Jacqueline E. Lawton:

"Emerging from Theater J's inaugural Locally Grown Festival, this breakthrough premiere explores the development of great African-American artists, John Biggers and Samella Lewis under the tutelage of Austrian Jewish refugee painter and educator, Viktor Lowenfeld. Focusing on the pivotal years at Hampton Institute, Virginia during WWII, this richly researched tapestry of African American luminaries like Elizabeth Catlett reveals the dreams and travails of young artists in a still segregated society while examining the impact of World War II on a Jewish immigrant and his wife finding shelter in the US and his controversial influence in shaping the careers of African American students."

Rough Sketches

 



Final Rough Sketch

 

Final Line Drawing

 

Final Illustration

(graphite and colored in Photoshop)

7th of 8 Theater J illustrations

In April, I was hired by Theater J to create 8 illustrations; one for each play in their 2012-2013, taking over for Waltz with Bashir art director and illustrator David Polonsky. Because of time issues, I was asked to create line drawings with some shading instead of paintings.

The seventh play of the season is Andy and the Shadows by Ari Roth:


"A family comedy with Freudian hallucinations and pre-marital angst by Theater J’s Artistic Director and award-winning playwright. Andy Glickstein is the son of Holocaust refugees who fears he can't get married because he hasn’t suffered enough. His family's gathered on the South Side of Chicago to celebrate his engagement to clear-headed Sarah, but party preparations are interrupted as Andy is pulled by memories and pre-adolescent enchantments of his mother's bath-time stories recounting her dramatic escapes from the Nazis. Andy's search for his duendé—the Spanish expression of soulfulness and tragic ecstasy made popular in Ernest Hemingway novels--leads him to make a movie mythologizing his mother's triumphant legacy and, when that fails, his father's unsung Zionist heroism, but he ultimately finds more meaning in a jar of jam and a hospital bed that sleeps two. Winner of the Streisand Award for Playwriting, by the author of Born Guilty and Love and Yearning in the Not-for-Profits."

Rough Sketch

 

Final Line Drawing

 

Final Illustration

(graphite and colored in Photoshop)

Opening Reception At Gallaudet University

Last Thursday, August 30th, I went to the opening reception for the group exhibition I am in: A Vision That Smells of Soap in the Washburn Arts Center, Linda K. Jordan Gallery at Gallaudet University. The show features 20 artists that were found at this year's Artomatic.

The show was packed and quite a cross- cultural experience, with the majority of the public using ASL (American Sign Language) to communicate. Luckily for me there were official translators all over the gallery ready to help us all understand each other (mostly me because many ASL users read lips as well).

Thanks to those of you who came out to see the work and say hello, and a special thanks to Tracey Salaway for including me in the show! For those of you who couldn't be there, the show runs until September 21st, regular gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9am-4pm.

Please find directions here.

 

 Washburn Arts Center, Linda K. Jordan Gallery

 

My work