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Artwork on display at the Black Bird Gallery!
106 National Ave, Las Vegas, NM 87701

Friday, February 5, 2010

Abandoned on Soccoro Street

Falling apart barn on Soccoro Street - Las Vegas, NM

Oil on canvas and phone book pages.


close up on phone book page

close up on sky/background

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Decay on Douglas

An abandoned house on Douglas Street, Las Vegas





Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Construction

Highlands University Construction site

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Ghost Child

A painting I made last semester of my sister Mary.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Gravity's Rainbow

Meant to post this a while ago.

It's another one of my lovely friend Jordan Ledvina's Canavas Cuties.

This one is based on the book Gravity's Rainbow.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Deer Old Friends


Intaglio print with chin-colle

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Recycled Rocks

Piece 1 of 10



Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Mental Maps : Handmade book

Handmade accordion style book

It's a book filled with the most important places in my life.




Back and Front view

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Las Vegas Lights



New Mexican Sky

Between Santa Fe and Las Vegas, NM

Monday, January 4, 2010

Old Santa Fe Trail

Climbing over barbed wire to get to the old Santa Fe



Ghost Town, Loma Parda









Saturday, January 2, 2010

Embossment Prints from Glen Rock High School

Embossment Prints from Alan Sponzilli's Media Arts class at Glen Rock High School 2003

These were my firsts prints ever.

Used Car AP

The Whale AP

Black and White AP

Intaglio prints from UMass

Intaglio prints from 2005 at UMass Amherst printmaking 1
(click on prints to enlarge)

Drypoint, etching, and aquatint
Paint and Tooth Brush 5/9

Drypoint, hard and soft ground etching, aquatint
In Greed We Trust 5/8

Drypoint
Yashika 4/6

Hands and Branches

3 block woodcut of a Hand-Tree, some with chin-colle magazine pages

Hands and Branches AP


Indian Veins AP

BRAWN! AP


Tree in the City AP

Forest for the Trees AP

Heartbreak on the Serengeti AP

Hands and Branches AP

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Winter Wonderland


Pictures from today

Gods of Gears

Combined paper lithography and monotype printing process



The Big Bang

3 collagraph prints from "In Bloom/The Big Bang" plate

Intaglio/Relief AP

Intaglio/Relief AP

Intaglio AP

Sacred Heart

"Sacred Heart" Collagraphs from four different editions

AP

1/3 VE

5/9 VE

1/3 VE

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Nature vs Human Nature

Some prints all from the same plate with plants that are plugged into outlets attacking plants that not plugged in.

"Trouble Up Ahead"
Intaglio print with Chin-colléd countries names of power (in terms of oil) on outlets

Close up on "Trouble up Ahead"

"Superimposed to Scale"
Intaglio print with chin-collé maps and rice paper
"Overgrown"
Intaglio print on rice paper with chin-collé

"Turmoil"
Intaglio print with chin-collé map of the middle east

"The Two Worlds"
Intaglio print with chin-collé

"Photog Missin Mosai"
Intaglio print with chin-collé maps

"White Noise"
Intaglio print with rice paper chin-collé

"Red War"
Intaglio print (in rose) with chin-collé and dirty spot wiping

"Battery Blood"
Intaglio print with bleeding chin-collé

"In the brush"
Intaglio print with rice paper chin-collé

XMas gifts

Watercolor ornaments for the family.

Blackadder

Charles Darwin

Bach

Poirot

Worf

Plato

Abiquiu

Some photos from the epic 13 hour journey to an from Abiquiu











Monday, December 21, 2009

Folk and Baroque

Pictures from the Baroque Solstice Concert at the Royal Mastodon Society

Daniel Jencka on harpsichord
Birdie Jaworski banjo and vocals
Neita Fran vocals
Roy Montabon host
















Saturday, December 19, 2009

First Class Mail


Latest batch of letters from:

Longmeadow, MA
Glen Rock, NJ
Luanda, Angola
Las Vegas, NM
Scottsdale, AZ
Kiev, Ukraine
New York, NY
Piracha, Modhupur, Bangladesh
Kyoto, Japan
Saddle Brook, NJ

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Painting 1

My first painting class


Still life of two empty jars
(oil on canvas)

Tongue ring
(water color on matting)
Still life of cow skull
(oil on canvas)


Facial
(oil)

Phone call to the moon
(oil on canvas)

12th Street Las Vegas
(oil on canvas)

Still life of brushes
(oilon canvas)

Dress and dancer
(oil on canvas)

Singalong
(oil on canvas)

GOD:OFF
(oil on newspaper and plywood)


Close up on GOD:OFF

Portrait of a painter
(oil on 140 book pages and fishing line)