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    • The School of Love (2016)
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    • you don't deserve me (2012)
    • for Smithson (2010)
    • rapture (2008)
    • grids (2008)
    • when you're a boy... (2005 and ongoing)
    • circumference (2005)
    • early painting installations
  • public projects & exhibitions
    • in the name of love (2019)
    • the color of remembering (2019)
    • Three Deliberate Grays For Freddie (2018-9)
    • Love Letter to a Library (2018)
    • A Partial List... (2016)
    • there is no one left to blame (2013)
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    • Proposal for a Memorial at Faneuil Hall (2018)
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A new poem by Debora Kuan

July 17, 2015 in Poems

Poetry from the author of Lunch Portraits

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Tags: Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, companions, Debora Kuan, drawings, Saturnalia Books, The Awl, The Baffler
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i wash my feet for you, gouache and gum arabic on panel, 15x15"
i wash my feet for you, gouache and gum arabic on panel, 15x15"

ONE QUESTION - Candice Smith Corby

July 16, 2015 in Artists, One Question

My grad school partner-in-crime talks about her work.

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Tags: feminism, materials, Mira Schor, ox gall, painting, power
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Colin Rhys
Colin Rhys

A letter to Colin, my former gallerist....

July 14, 2015 in Artists, everything after

If you see him, send him this letter…

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Tags: Basel, Colin Rhys, houzz-com, Mariana Lopez, Mark Chariker, RHYS Gallery, Shaun Leonardo, VOLTA, Xanadu Group
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the answer, 2014-15, oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches
the answer, 2014-15, oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches

Pleasure is the answer....

June 29, 2015 in Armory Show, Artists, studio practice

It takes what it takes…

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Tags: Armory Show, Artists, Cupid, Fredericks and Freiser, Gustav Klimt, Jocelyn Hobbie, Nayland Blake, Pleasure, Psyche
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** 7

A new poem by Ellen Noonan

June 25, 2015 in Poems

Ellen Noonan crafts a poem…

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Tags: companions, drawings, Ellen Noonan
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Here's what we know....

June 18, 2015 in everything after, politics, race

An overview of our blood-soaked moment…

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100 watercolors waiting to be mailed out as soon as you ask for one.
100 watercolors waiting to be mailed out as soon as you ask for one.

If you send me $50, I'll mail you a watercolor....

June 16, 2015 in everything after

Since someone told me that my work was too expensive….

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Tags: mail art
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what wasn't thought possible, 2015, gouache and egg tempera on panel, 8 x 10 inches
what wasn't thought possible, 2015, gouache and egg tempera on panel, 8 x 10 inches

Possible?

June 13, 2015 in studio practice

You don’t know if it can work. So you try to make it work….

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Gerhard Richter, Guy Debord, Janet Fish, painting, spectacle, studio practice
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Nat Meade, Study (Plaid Pantry)
Nat Meade, Study (Plaid Pantry)

ONE QUESTION - Nat Meade

June 04, 2015 in Artists, One Question

Nat Meade answers ONE QUESTION….

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Tags: Antonio Frasconi, Artists, Bridget Riley, influences, James Ensor, Jean Paul Gomez, light, Michael Brennan, Mr- Potato Head, Nat Meade, painting, portraiture, sensation, skowhegan, studio practice, Walt Whitman
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IMG_3041
IMG_3041

that last time we touched the water....

May 31, 2015 in Artists

Watercolor. I finally learned how to do this…

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Tags: Artists, Donna Rae Hirt, drawings, Gardner Lake, Jane Coffey, Linda Earle, loss, painting, studio practice, Susanna Coffey, water
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Anthony Palocci, Jr. Looking Up, 2015, oil on canvas, 60x96 inches.  Studio view.
Anthony Palocci, Jr. Looking Up, 2015, oil on canvas, 60x96 inches. Studio view.

ONE QUESTION - Anthony Palocci, Jr.

May 21, 2015 in One Question, studio practice

One of the best painters painting the best things…

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Tags: Anthony Palocci, Artists, Boston Center for the Arts, color, deCordova, ICA, Jasper Johns, Nat Meade, restraint, Robert Moeller, studio practice, Vija Celmins
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useful1
useful1

Useful drawings #6

May 06, 2015 in Steve!, studio practice, Useful Drawings

These come in handy….

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Tags: drawings, loss, race
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monument #10, egg tempera, oil, and collage on wood with acryli
monument #10, egg tempera, oil, and collage on wood with acryli

Some things you can't forget, and some things you shouldn't....

May 02, 2015 in Steve!, studio practice

Who gets a monument?

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Tags: Bridget Riley, egg tempera, Gaston Bachelard, monuments, painting, Sassetta, sensation, studio practice
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I started this painting 8 years ago
I started this painting 8 years ago

So... this happened today...

January 22, 2015 in studio practice

It happens sometimes without your knowing the it’s going to happen….

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Tags: color, MacDowell, nose, painting, portraiture, Purple Cactus, self-portrait, snow, winter
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Offended? Then I did my job.

January 09, 2015 in hypocrites, politics, Turkey

Reagan. Anal. What more is there….?

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