Artists are notoriously sensitive and fickle and just prickly creatures...I recently had a falling out with an artist I admire because I decided I was going to play Van Gogh to his Gauguin...the whole thing is a case of obsession gone awry... I thought he had been trolling my work with the work he had been making, and I called him out for doing so...stupid, apparently I was very wrong, and got the part of asshole quite right...I was seeing connections in our work, but if you followed the thread of our respective postings you would see the connections, too. Sadly, sometimes my more manic phases get the best of me...always up and down. I feel sad that I lost a friend, a painter I admired, but I can see the humor in it, and hopefully Mr Paulus forgives me at some point. Alex is awesome, you can see his work here, they are quite good:
Alex Paulus' Terrific Paintings
Got some great news from the Gallery@the Jupiter this past week. I was given a two month show in October of this year. I have been sharing the newest paintings with the curator, and he has decided to accept my challenge to have my work taken more seriously. Along with the paintings I am working on for this Guardino Gallery show in April, the newest abstracts, and the dogs barking in the shadows, this is going to be a great show, but I have a lot of work ahead.
This thing on Twitter continues to evolve, these titles and notes read more like poetry...sometimes I want to make the drawings that fit them, like I did here with the 10 Hastily Reassembled Heads Chewing A Screwdriver, but mostly I think they work alone in your brain, which is kind of fascinating. If you Twitter, you can follow me here:
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