Category Archives: In the Studio
NY Times article due in the Sunday edition, May 20th. Make sure to check it out.
I had a long phone conversation with an art writer for the NY Times who called to talk about my work and its inclusion in The College of New Rochelle’s 2012 Westchester Biennial. She is writing an article on the exhibition. We spoke for quite awhile and she asked some pretty pointed questions. She is [...]
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Arthur Negro I at The Bridge (Video)
In 2006 I was commissioned to make one of the most important pieces of art I’d made to that point in my life. After a major motorcycle accident that caused me to reconsider my art, I made this piece in response to the accident. I needed to make a piece that could say what it [...]
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Charles McGill Radio Interview with Delphine Blue on WBAI’s Shocking Blue
Hey check out this great radio program and the interview that I did with the one and only Delphine Blue on her Shocking Blue radio show. It was a fun interview and its a great radio show. Go the this link, scroll down to the Shocking Blue show and click play. Enjoy it. WBAI Radio [...]
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Recent activity
Big opening at The Phatory last week…. hope you were able to be there. Sold the signature piece in the show, KILLER, to Sharif Atkins, an actor from ER, Numbers and White Collar tv fame. Great guy. Loved speaking with him at the opening. Very insightful points of view. He nailed many aspects of the [...]
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Prolific Summer
Without saying too much, this summer closes as one of the most productive and lucrative of the past few years. A turning point with the work turned into a break through for a body of new pieces that seemed to elevate my art to another level. SKINNED has revealed more than I thought this subject [...]
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Formal Assembly at Dusk
Recently completed and sold. Formal Assembly at Dusk, 2011. Will soon be seen in the collection of Robert Rubin, The Bridge, Noyack, N.Y.
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New pieces at The Bridge
Robert Rubin, collector, art historian, good guy and country club owner has acquired new work for the club house at Long Island’s finest private country club, The Bridge. Although more pieces may be selected, for now, Mr. Rubin has selected, “Coors, Coors, Coors” and “Becks” to hang in the clubhouse behind the bar. The refined [...]
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Visiting Artist
I recently returned from a full day of travel to the Scranton area for two visiting artist stops and Keystone College and the University of Scranton. Both were really great visits and the students and faculty seemed to connected and appreciate the time. I showed work, talked about my process and made plenty of time [...]
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New work, 2011
I have had the idea of ‘skinning’ the golf bags and attaching them to canvas or wood and I have finally taken the steps to do that. I am wary of ‘ideas’ when it comes to making art so I let it settle and gestate for months before I decided it was worth pursuing. I [...]
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The Brooklyn Rail review of TRAPPED