new york

New York City…

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 | Available Works | 7 Comments

…is crazy hot.  As is the entire eastern coast right now, but New York is dirty hot.  My friend said it felt like the heat sat on top of you, and it does, like a gross thermal blanket that only comes off when you duck into a shop with air conditioning.  Other than that:  this city is AMAZING.  It’s my third time here, and after the 3rd date I’m dangerously in love with all the art, music, architecture and promises in this incredible place.  Today is my birthday, and my first day of school:  I usually loathe both, but today I find myself excited and optimistic instead.  I have an address here, after a grueling 3 day search in sweltering heat and an intense paranoia of bedbugs, I have a beautiful apartment, and I now have my very first cell phone (I sent my first ever text message yesterday, what a feat!), so it feels like the first difficult tasks have been accomplished.

Next comes the show!  Above is an image of the paintings set up side by side-the gallery installation will differ slightly, but it gives you a better idea of their natural progression, relationships between the paintings, and their presence as a whole.  It seems a shame to sell them individually:  my dream is to find a buyer to purchase them as a single piece.

There is so much to say about this experience, but for now I’ll just say I was way overdue for an adventure, and so far, New York has delivered. 

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Cloud #47

Friday, August 20th, 2010 | Available Works, clouds | 2 Comments

Cloud #47 18″ x 18″  Oil on Wood, 2010

The very.  last.  cloud.

…possibly ever.

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Cloud #46

Thursday, August 19th, 2010 | Available Works, clouds | 1 Comment

Cloud #46 18″ x 18″  Oil on Beechwood, 2010

Thanks to everyone who came out last night to our studio show-it was a great success!

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Cloud #45

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | Available Works, clouds | 4 Comments

Cloud #45 18″ x 24″  Oil on Wood, 2010

I finished my very last cloud yesterday.  I was worried that it might feel a bit anti-climatic, but it was actually the opposite.  There’s a big grin on my face and I feel about a hundred pounds lighter.  Now there’s just the daunting task of transporting 17 paintings into the USA…

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Cloud #41

Saturday, August 7th, 2010 | Available Works, clouds | 3 Comments

Cloud #41 18″ x 24″ Oil on Wood, 2010

Summer is quickly drawing to a close, and I can’t say I’ve ever spent this much time in the studio.  I’m often there by 10am and head home after midnight, and there have been more than a few vending machine dinners…

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Cloud #39

Friday, July 16th, 2010 | Available Works, clouds | 3 Comments

Cloud #39 16″ x 20″  Oil on Beechwood, 2010

I’m starting to feel a bit like a cloud-painting machine.  This could be good or bad.

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Cloud #33

Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | Available Works, clouds | 3 Comments

Cloud #33 16″ x 12″  Oil on Beechwood, 2010

Three weeks ago my upper eyelid started twitching.  Like a little mouse heartbeat, it pumped and fluttered on its own accord until I was forced to take time off, flee to Quebec, and spend a week with my toes dangling off the dock at a solar powered cottage in the middle of nowhere.  I’m back in the studio now, and the twitch is at the bottom of a lake somewhere near Mont Tremblant.

Maybe I was afflicted because I’ve been hoarding some very exciting news.  Three pieces of exciting news, actually!  One is a solo show at the ASRG during Art Nocturne in Halifax this October.  The second is that I’ll be living in New York City for four months this September, doing an exchange semester at Cooper Union.  To top it all off, the third piece of news (that still hasn’t sunk in) is a solo show at a beautiful little gallery in NYC, Bodell Fahey Umbrella Arts.  It probably doesn’t translate in writing, but I’m so excited I could rocket launch off a chair right now.

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