Still Lifes: Series 2

As 2011 draws to its close, a special treat for you - and you alone! - Dear Reader: four variations on a still life theme, and a bid for a Happy New Year!

Pretty Poison: Series 3

Pretty poisons. all in a row, there to tempt you...

Pretty Poison: Series 2

Series 2, in Technicolor... and glorious B&W; in kandy kolor... and blanc et noir.

Security...

In these anxious times, you can depend on securityPLUS. Simply give us all of your money, and we'll take it from there, rest assured.

Pretty Poison: Series 1

Here are the first four images for a new series, Pretty Poison, it taking its title from the 1968 film starring Tony Perkins and Tuesday Weld.

Bring Your Checkbook!

Hear ye! Hear ye! Come one! Come all! The KAC doors fling open Monday, December 12, 2011! A print jubilee!

Pop Grids

Here is a new series, variations on grid patterns with a Pop accent. More and more, I enjoy working with a grid within a square, using circles and squares. Other inspirations come from unexpected sources. For instance, the blue and the yellow-green came from an ad I saw in the background of a scene in a 1980s episode of "Murder She Wrote" on Netflix the other night. I made a note, wrote down: blue and yellow-green.

Happy Holidays, 2011...

I'm wishing various and sundry a Mod / Pop holiday season!

Still Lifes: Series 1

Variations on an interior theme.

EMERGENCY!!!

EMERGENCY! DEATH! BLOODY MURDER! FIRE! FLESH BURNED TO THE BONE! TOXICITY! A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT! IT'S TERRIBLE! CALL 911! HORRIFYING! THEY'RE STILL ALIVE?! I'D RATHER BE DEAD! EMERGENCY! THEIR GUTS ARE HANGING OUT! DISGUSTING! EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!!!

Colors & Forms: Series 23

A composition... set in time... suspended in animation... for the ages... just around the bend... a memory of a ghost, footsteps down the hall... or so it would seem.

Colors & Forms: Series 22

Further adventures in geometry, something I flunked as a teen - and still would today.

These are inspired by the logo for Square Stamping Manufacturing Company in Barneveld, NY. The first image is a pretty direct nick, basically just color changes. The rest are extrapolations from the previous.

When I saw the sign I thought, "That's modern art. On canvas in a gallery or a museum it's minimalism a la Ellsworth Kelly or Sol LeWitt."

The company's original building next door has a sign with old-timey lettering that looks like something that could've been done by cartoonists Robert Armstrong or R Crumb.

BTW, besides Kelly and LeWitt, some of the artists who influence me are Richard Paul Lohse, Stuart Davis, Paul Klee, Auguste Herbin, Joan Miro and the Pop artists, especially Andy Warhol. All are constant sources of inspiration, along with many others.

Conversationally...

Mark Your Calendars!

This is a promo card I created for Sculpture Space.

Sculpture Space is Utica, NY's international artist residency program, 35-years-old and going strong. The Sculpture Space site can be seen here.

Neo-Geo

USPS

Last week I created a dozen icons, apps for an iPad version the USPS magazine, "Deliver." Here are my favorite nine of the batch.

A Day in Dubrovnik

Here are four images created this week while listening to The Modern Jazz Quartet's 1987 album, "Three Windows," especially the suite, "A Day in Dubrovnik."

Today's Washington Post

Here's my cover for Capital Business magazine in today's Washington Post. The topic is businesses "rebranding." Big shout-out to Meredith Bowen, one savvy art director!

Remembrance

I really do

remember what you did.

And what you did

can never be undone,

hon.

Mister Puss

Mister Puss extends a cordial luncheon invitation to all the local mice. He says, "Come one! Come all! You'll be most surprised to see what's on the menu..."

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Graphics a la mod...

Driven...

Got some time to waste? Drive around aimlessly.

1105 Media

Here is a recent job I did for 1105 Media, a trade publication. The topic is a server feeding a variety of devices for students.

Beatnik Silkscreen For Sale

My three-color silkscreen, a signed and numbered edition of 100, for Water Row Press.

Today's Wall Street Journal...

These illustrations are for the cover of The Journal Report section of today's Wall Street Journal, the top one for the print, the bottom one for the iPad edition.