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Thursday, August 6, 2015

The Creation of A Spanish Cityscape

This week I started my newest painting featuring Toledo, Spain. I visited there in 2012 and was moved by its hilltop setting, its distinct architecture, and the fact that Toledo was the adopted home town of El Greco, one of my favorite painters. Unlike cloudscapes, cityscape paintings require a bit more thought and planning before adding color as evidenced in the photo and time lapse below.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

The End of An Era, The Start of a New

Moving. What can I say?

Beyond the physical and mental challenge of moving, my studio relocation from 6th Street to the new one at Hill Street was surprisingly emotional. So much history, so much change in my style and approach, so much new art conceived and made there. It affected me deeply. As I begin to establish the new workspace on Hill Street, I wanted to take a moment to pay tribute to the one I've called my artistic home the past 6 years.

Getting ready to transition the studio from work mode to gallery mode for an open studio event in 2012.

An eerie scene around 1:30AM as the studio empties. July 15, 2014.

Back to the start. July 21, 2014.

Another view of the studio in full production mode circa 2012.

A whole other perspective on July 21, 2014.

Serenity the night before an open studio event circa 2010.

The sun sets on 6th Street.

The sun rises on Hill Street.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Inside The Artist Studio: David Kenneth Gordon

Meet David Gordon (www.davidkgordonart.com).

David's studio is on Riverside Drive in the Upper West Side. We met at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy during the summer of 2001 and have kept in touch ever since. Classically trained, David is still investigating and pushing the envelope of the tools (and now technologies) available to artists today.

Some day I want a display wall like this one!

Getting to learn more about his iterative printing/drawing/painting process.

In his element! A great studio space.

A studio visit and lunch with David Gordon is a must anytime I'm in NYC!

Inside The Artist Studio: David Keeton

Meet David Keeton. His studio is in Midtown on 31st Street. He shared a project that really blew my mind. Incredibly, he figured out a way to draw an intricate line pattern across 8 sheets of paper that measures 1 kilometer long if you straightened it out.

David, with one of the 1K drawings. Not sure what it is? Please look closer...

Zooming in...

Close up. The impetus/concept behind this, and how he figured out HOW to execute it, literally blew my mind.

Color introduced into the black and white concepts he has been developing.

On Madison Ave with David Keeton.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

New York City Art Explorations / 2010

Always looking! In the Greek/Roman marbles at the Metropolitan.

This whole area used to be the cafeteria...now bringing out some impressive sculptures like this one of a youthful Hercules.

I draw this same sculpture every time I visit the Met! I'd like to have one.

Looks like Napoleon shot a cannonball thru this one when he occupied Egypt.

A closeup from a Hockney in the Modern wing of the Met. He grows on me more and more every time I see his work.

A view from a bench in Union Square, and reference for the little abstract sketch below...

"Union Square" / Oil pastel and ink on paper / 4 x 6"

"Danse (I)" / Matisse / Museum of Modern Art

"After Matisse Danse (I)" / Ink and whiteout on paper / 6 x 8". I approached this one by trying to draw the shapes in between the figures and their limbs instead of trying to draw the figures.

Background: Robert Motherwell's "Elegy to the Spanish Republic" at MOMA

Foreground: "After Motherwell's 'Elegy to the Spanish Republic' " / Oil pastel and whiteout on paper.

(The gentleman taking a closer look at the original had been sitting next to me for about 15 minutes as I was tackling this drawing. Not sure why, but love how this photo captures me working, an inspiring painting, and a patron in a great museum at the same time.)

Friday, July 10, 2009

Chicago Open Studio Pictures

The following are pictures of the installation and the party at my good friend Edna Boksenbaum's studio in the Pilsen Arts District on the south side of Chicago. The event took place on June 20, 2009 and details about the show can be found at EBOK/Reyes Open Studio.

Sincere thanks to all the patrons who were able to make it to our show. We appreciate your enthusiasm, support and purchases. We hope the art brings as much enjoyment to you as it did to us in making and presenting it.