Last night I saw the young Vega String Quartet perform Beethoven’s String Quartet in E Minor, op. 59, No. 2 – or the Razumovsky quartet – at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory campus. This was an 1805 commissioned work by Count Razumovsky, a Russian ambassador in Vienna, who was also one [...]

That’s the title of an exhibit now up through April 16 at Emory’s Visual Arts Gallery, curated by artist Larry Jens Anderson. (that link is from Baltimore artist/writer/musician Jaclyn Paul, check out her site) The show was originally presented by Space One Eleven in Birmingham and is the second in the series, ‘Found Around the South’. [...]

I went on a bus tour of the Atlanta Beltline today with my friend Linda and another pal of hers. Our tour guide was an architect and a volunteer with the Atlanta Preservation Center. This project began after I’d left Atlanta in 1997 to work in San Francisco, so it was completely new to me. [...]

Two new small works for spring. These were finished in mid February and since then I’ve been working on a large piece for a commission. Stay tuned. Blues for Ravel. Oil on canvas panel, 11″x14″, 2011. Daffodils. Oil on canvas panel, 9″x12″, 2011. My old friend Brad Mix brought over this wonderful bird ‘townhouse’ last [...]

My work will be shown in these upcoming spring exhibits. Unfortunately I entered Asparagus Bed into two shows and it was accepted in both. So now I have a small dilemma. Show listed first, then paintings. April 1-May 1, 2011 Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg, VA. Juried by George Billis, owner George Billis Galleries in [...]