My best wishes to you for this new year. My prayer for you is that 2017 will bless you with good energies within,
as well as all around you,
throughout the year.
Aetherium,The Mountain of God 7" Image diameter, oil with 21k moon gold on prepared paper,
21"x18", $900.
“As any honest magician knows, true magic inheres in the ordinary, the commonplace, the everyday, the mystery of the obvious. Only petty minds and trivial souls yearn for supernatural events, incapable of perceiving that everything -- everything! -- within and around them is pure miracle.” -Edward Abbey; Abbey’s Road; Plume; 1979.
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Mark your calendars! The Affordable Art Fair returns to the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NYC.
Find my work in the booth of Julio Valdez Project Space, main floor. more information here: https://affordableartfair.com/fairs/new-york
Above: Annunciation II, oil with 23k gold on panel, 36" diameter, $7,000.
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This House of Sky
In this house of sky
the moon wants a flower:
color puddles,
ripples,
is caged in looping calls.
This house of sky
is not activist
is not demanding rights
is not vocal
it inheres to magic
this house of sky
with its thudding clouds
loud wind,
light
that at once fills my
head, heart, whole
being.
This house of sky
built from age-old hemlock,
soft shale from the edge of the
sea;
built from water crystals,
dancing down the
layers of the thermometer:
built out of blue -
so many shades, I could count them
until my last breath.
I could clean my windows
to have the view
four or five geese, Canadian,
in front of a single cloud:
this cold, cold morning the sky
has no need for
fire, warmth,
or a longer line of migrators,
fleeing.
-Karen Fitzgerald 2016
The Immigrant Story
by Grace Paley
One day in my family’s life
I entered the English language
d's and t's in my teeth s's steaming
I elongated i's
lost a few r's included
them where they weren’t wanted
I often stationed a preposition
at the end of a sentence
this was to guard against
aggrieved inflection
Much to my surprise strangers understood me
I continued talking I was brazen I said
everywhere I go there are verbs that are doing nothing
it has been years since certain nouns were referred to
by their right names
I must ask a sad question
will the laws of entropy operate in spite of strictness
is there a literature that chants the disappearance
of tongues
At the cusp of the new year, I'm thinking about the clamoring all around us - the voices demanding to be heard, demanding action. It seems there is nothing that lacks visibility. Money and power have their way with us. I'm aware of my center: it is this literature that is chanting the tongues whose disappearance is sitting on the horizon. It's a foreign language, the language of our world - plastic form, color, texture; what our eyes see, what our hearts feel.
Please join me on Saturday, February 18, 2017, from 6-8pm for a reception at Gallery35, featuring our Invitational Exhibition. 30 East 35th Street, New York, NY. I have invited Florina Sbircea to exhibit with us; additional guest artists will also exhibit.
Don't miss this exciting show!!
Here is an interview published on Entertainment Vine
I welcome studio visits -- there are always a variety of artworks available that will surprise and please you.
Give me a call to set up an appointment.
Top left: Purdy Park, watercolor on prepared paper, 19"x15" overall, $350.
Top right: Winhall Morning 2, watercolor on prepared paper, 13.5"x11.5" overall, $350.
Bottom left: Esopus Afternoon, watercolor on prepared paper, 14.5"x12" overall, $350.
Bottom right: Housatonic at Kent, CT, watercolor on prepared paper, 14.5"x12" overall, $350.
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"Laniakea", solar etching, 14"x12", image 7" diameter, printed with silver ink on black paper with 12k gold flakes. This edition numbers 25: $600 framed.
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