In Honor of International Women's Day

A nice homage to the contribution of 10 architect women. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Here goes:
The 10 Most Overlooked Women in Architecture History (PHOTOS) http://huff.to/14Dg0Ya via @HuffPostArts

Trans-Mongolian: A Long Train Journey

Moki- Photorealistic Paintings

Reading the Huffpost Arts & Culture Section, I stumbled into this article about the artist Moki, who lives and works in Hamburg. I learned that her photorealistic paintings "find inspiration in comic book themes and natural and human mysteries.." Her work fascinates me!

So here is the link to read the article and to see more of images of her work:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/10/optical-illusion-art-moki_n_2828460.html

And here is the link to her web site:
http://www.mioke.de

Latest Oil- Hanging from the Wall ...

                                                        

I found this pulley in an antique store by my neighborhood. The object was hanging on a blue hallway wall as my father's carpentry tools.

My father was a carpenter. His studio was on the back of the house. It was a large room with a wooden door and one large window. All his tools were hanging from one of the walls -sometimes organized and other times liying down around a wood project he was working on. I enjoyed wandering into that space ...

Hanging from the Wall ...

Oil on Canvas- 11" x 14"

Copyrighted 2013
$ 650.00

More Pages of Flashbulb Memories of Air & Movement

A Cow Eating Grass Under Open Sky

Are My Castles Obtainable?...

Bringing out one of my oldies ...

In Thinking about Decisions

Oil on Wood

36" x 48"

Copyrighted BL
$ 2,500

Flashbulb Memories of Air & Movement

At night the road is dark. 

The trembling stars up in the sky are bright. 

Some of them are big.

They guide our path. 

I look at the temperamental sky, at the edge of storming over us. 

I think of Beethoven

-the passion I hear in his music.

The Path to a New Series of Paintings

"My Mother's Shears" is my latest commission by Ms. Majaro. It is a small 12"x16" oil on canvas that left my studio yesterday.

As the painting developed I got to think about the outings to antique stores that I did with my mother Emma and my aunt Nelly during my childhood. I used to be filled with expectancy hours prior to the outing. I looked forward to view antiquated objects; I always wondered what secrets or stories they could tell me if they could talk ...

Up to today's date I enjoy visiting antique and/or thrift stores; I am always looking for "that" particular object that brings an "Aha!" moment in me awakening my curiosity and my imagination.

"My Mother's Shears" is the first painting in the series of those objects I find on my outings to these stores. I will keep you posted on the next one but for now... 

here is: "My Mother's Shears"

Copyright 2013

Flashbulb Memories of Air & Movement

Endless road facing the sun as a gigantic medallion 

as waiting for us to melt our eyes ...

Flashbulb Memories of Air & Movement

Usually road trips set my mind at ease and 

in some sort of meditative state.

It seems that looking through the windshield onto the open sky

 brings me calmness and my imagination becomes engaged 

with the ever lastingchanging colors and cloud formations.

Do you have a guest out of town seeking a place to stay? ...

Minutes from Downtown Chicago!

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Two Versions of the Same Drawing ...

Birds of Onix. 

Two Versions. Drawings on Paper from my late 80's drawing phase

Flashbulb Memories of Air and Movement

When my partner suggested a road trip to Oklahoma, 

I got on board without even thinking.

I've not done a road trip for more than a decade. 

I was very excited to embark in this one.

Climate Change in Visuals ...

Intrigued by the proposition of a visual in climate change I adventured to the DePaul University Museum of Art  (http://museums.depaul.edu) to view its current exhibit "Climate of Uncertainty"- an exhibit showing "the work of twelve artists who address issues of environmental degradation resulting from human activities...".
The exhibit placed me in a self reflective mode and provocatively forced me to interact, if nothing else via thought reflections and memory. An exhibit worth your time, energy, and certainly your thoughts!

Here are few artists that their work spoke to me the most:

The works that attracted me the most were those of Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian photographer, with an image from his Manufacturing series (edwardburtynsky.com)

Chris Jordan, another photographer, disrupted me with his disturbing images of young albatrosses killed by plastic waste they ingest mistakenly (chrisjordan.com). It took me to what I have observed so many times on the surface of our dear Lake Michigan ...

Sabrina Raaf (raaf.org), a Chicago- based artist, introduced me to "Grower", a robotic piece that measures the carbon dioxide levels in the gallery and translates the readings onto walls as strokes of
green pain

and this is "Grower" at work ...

The black crows of Maskull Lasserre, Montreal-based artist (maskulllasserre.com), entitled "Murder" is visually shocking and quite painful to view. I found myself thinking in my dear South America soil and the deforestation of the Amazons, in Chernobyl's nuclear contamination or BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

And finally Sonja Hinrichsen (sonjahinrichsen.wordpress.com) who made me a participant in her

multi-screen video projection "Three Gorges 3rd edition", which projects images of the Yangtze River onto three walls, replicating the experience of being in a boat cruise. In it "we" arrive to the hydroelectric dam ("the largest in the world"). I did not take a photo of this installation. You can view

one though downloading the exhibit catalogue here: 

http://museums.depaul.edu/wp-content/uploads//Climate_Catalog.pdf

Organic Expressions

  

"Organic Expressions"- a series of three abstract mixed media paintings on paper playing with the idea of hair. 

What associations do you make? ...