Equator [Dumb Box 03]

These are the first objects created in our new studio in New York.  A couple days ago I turned 69 and I am very much aware how fortunate I am to be in a new city at this time in my life.  It feels like I’m in the right place for me at the right time, not a bad way to feel at this age.  Or any, for that matter.

 

Begins Ends Each Moment [Dumb Box 02]

I think of these objects as projectors, not for slides/transparencies, but for the ego; or as reliquaries of a religion that doesn't believe in the existence of the body.  They're measure about 6" x 10" x 6", and they're plain: birch wood with gesso and acrylic.  This one has cardboard inserts.

 

I Am Big Heaven 2012 [Dumb Box 01]

Back in 1966 I got my first apartment, it was in San Francisco and in it I had nothing but a bed, a chair, and a table.  I made cardboard sculptures back then, very simple ones, on which I mounted type and images.  Now that we’ve just moved into our first apartment in New York, I decided to go back to those cardboard boxes, but drop the images and construct them out of wood.  I'm working on a dozen of them; this is the first.

Last San Francisco Paintings

Tomorrow my wife and I close our San Francisco studio in preparation for our move to New York, where we plan to live in Manhattan for a year. Here are the last three paintings done in California, created between November 2010 and January 2012.

Rococo File 10 acrylic on canvas 64" x 45"

Rococo File 10

Rococo File 11 acrylic on canvas 67" x 46"

Rococo File 11

Rococo File 12 acrylic on canvas 62" x 42"

Rococo File 12

New York, New York

Just to make sure 2012 means something new, Vivienne (my wife) and I purchased one-way tickets to New York.  We'll be living there for eleven months, from 01 February until 31 December.  Who knows what changes that will bring about?
Happy new year everyone.

New Works 2011

Numb (2008-2011) 38" x 25"

Golem Likes a Pretty Face (May-July) 48" x 34"

Rangoon (2008-2011) 25" x 38"

Rococo File 06 (Sept-Oct) 25" x19"

Dark Radio (June-July)  25" x 19"

New Los Angeles (June-July) 25" x 19"

Amsterdam (June-July) 25" x 19"

Rumplestiltskin 02 (June-July) 25" x 19"

Rococo File 02 (Sept-Oct) 25" x19"

Rococo File 03 (Sept-Oct) 25" x19"

Rococo File 07 (Sept-Oct) 25" x19"

Rococo File 08 (Sept-Oct) 25" x19"

Rococo File 09 (Sept-Oct) 25" x19"

 

 

 

Rococo File 01 (Sept-Oct) 25" x 19"

Moon Atlas Paintings

In truth, I did not expect to sell my hand-painted book, Moon Atlas, in the Zeitgeist show; but it sold and because there were certain things I very much wanted to retain for myself, I created some paintings as an extension of the book.

Moon Pie 18" h x 24" w mixed media on board

Moon Calendar 01 18" h x 24" w mixed media on board

Moon Calendar 02 18"h x 24"w mixed media on board

Moon Shark 24" h x 18" w mixed media on board

I Am the Orange Man 18" h x 24" w mixed media on board

Smiling Crescent Moon 24" h x 18" w mixed media on board

This Mortal Coil 18" h x 24" w mixed media on board