June 19, 2009

Hello.  So today is my nephew Fred's graduation from High School and we are all very proud of him.  

I am nearly finished with my large painting and then can move on to some new work. Very excited about this development. 

June 9, 2009

Hello. It's been a while and I've been very distracted with life and getting settled in my studio so little time to think about blogging. Big mistake I know. Anyway, here I am and all is well. I have been painting quite a bit on a large canvas that I started last fall and never resolved. Good news is that it is going really well. It is one of those canvases that clearly teaches me something. I guess you could say that every painting is a learning experience but some are much more so. I decided that I would not start anything without finishing this particular picture. I sound like a broken record as I feel it is all I talk about. Anyway I guess I have a case of the self-absorbed artist. Let's hear it for the self-absorbed!

I've finally had contact with my cousin and have plans to see them tomorrow at 1:00. It will be nice as I leave town the following morning and will not be back in the city for a while.

I am preparing some large canvases for my next group of paintings. Hopefully they will be in my show in September. I am still trying to channel the spirit of Joan Mitchell, shown above, in my new work but not sure how that will translate. I guess that is the exciting part. The painting that I am finishing up is 84"x64" and is totally representational, a patch of grass, so I need to get away from that thinking with the new work.

Tonight we are having dinner with two of John's friends who are very sane and after last weekends company I am very happy. They are a couple that got married last year, John and I attended the weekend long wedding. It was close to the end of my Dad's life and a very emotional time I remember.

TUESDAY MAY 19 2009

Updated June 3, 2009. Proceed with caution this is one of my gayest posts. I'm more than a little embarrassed.

Fancy Me thought I had my degree in love.
I'd defy anyone who claimed that I didn't control whatever moved in my soul.
I could touch... These are words (I think they are right) from "The Boss" sung by Diana Ross, that song like many of her hits touched me as a gay male in the, I guess eighties. She was the boss period. So fabulous then and now!

Hello. So here we are Tuesday and tonight I have plans to go to a theatrical benefit for inner city school kids and all I want to do is stay home. It is probably one of the better organizations in the city I'm just a bitter old want to stay at home and do my thing kind of (shut-in) guy...

Today was an amazing day although I've been in all day. I've made some progress in the packing and planning and can't wait to be in one place for a few months to concentrate on work. I am so happy that I have dove into painting yesterday and with such pleasing powerful results personally speaking.

I'm waiting to hear if I am playing tennis this afternoon. My serve is getting better with some practice and that improves the game tremendously. I've neglected to serve which was easy because we usually just rally when we practice. We now try to make a point of playing a few games when we practice. So much fun!!!

I've been posting Joan Mitchell on my site as you may have noticed. I've only seen a few of her canvases in person on different occasions. There is s splendid Sunflower painting in the Tate Modern. I've seen a couple at Cheim & Read Gallery and then reproduced. Anyway, I am going to stop posting her as I've discovered that there are many who post her on their blogs and I thought I was original. This way if I don't post and I google carefully I won't see how many fans there are and the discovery will be all mine. I am not that pathetic but it was a little annoying to see all the copycats. Alright I am pathetic and I do not like to share some things. Pretty much anything that I love. With that I'll sign off and hopefully change over-night.

Monday May 17, 2009

Hello. These three paintings are by Joan Mitchell and I think they are amazing. Left to right they are:
LEFT, CYPRESSES, DIPTYCH, 1975
CENTER TOP, LANDSCAPE TING, 1958 - 1959
RIGHT, CANADA IV, DIPTYCH, 1975

http://www.markperry.org

Great to be back to my blog and NYC. I leave my apartment for three weeks next week. Of course I will be in the city from time to time checking my mail and just checking in but for the most part out east painting and working a new store.

This past weekend I really did some great organizing in the studio. Clearing the decks and opening things up. It looks great and Yesterday I started looking at a painting that I last worked on last Fall. It is a large close-up of Grass, 84"x64" approx. I always new that I had to revisit it and finish it and it looks like it is happening. It is important before taking it down that it be finished. I need to clear the decks before beginning my next group. I am going after a higher degree of realism in a certain part of the painting. Of course that is my Higher degree of realism which is different from most realist painters as I am not that good. But as I have said before what I lack in skill I make up for with boldness. It is so much fun to feel the thrill of painting again.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

http://jeannewilliamson.blogspot.com/


Hello. As I have said in the past it's my blog and I love Babs so here she is in all her film glory.

I have been away from my blog for a while and have been busy and traveling a bit. Went to Florida for a while to play tennis catch some sun and relax for a bit. I am now back in the city preparing to be away from my apartment for three months. I will be out in East Hampton for most of the summer.

I am planning some new paintings and also doing layouts for a mural that I will be painting. I have a show that is planned for mid-September if all goes to plan.

See you soon.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSAN!!!! I LOVE YOU
SIS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAMELA!!!

I am in Dan's Papers on Gordin's View page. Thank you
Barry Gordin you are the best. If you go to this link I am photo 10 of 37 photographed with artist, Joan Kraisky.

http://www.danshamptons.com/dantube/index.php?type=slideshow&width=540&height=535&srcUrl=http://www.danshamptons.com/content/danspapers/issue06_2009/media/gordins/slideshow.swf

Hello. This is Joan Mitchell and this is one of her paintings. I've always loved her have no books about her but thanks to the Internet I don't really need any. She was a brilliant painter, died in 1992. Her mark really speaks to me on so many levels. On so many levels is one of my favorite sayings. It's the saying of the day as Little Edie would say. May she rest in peace.

My god Roxanna Saberi, I wish she would eat if it is not too late.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Hello. I am back in the city after a long weekend out in the country doing yard work and other things around the house.

I have a painting in a group show out in East Hampton and I do not feel so great about it. I like the painting but I do not feel it is shown to its best advantage and that is the deal with a group show that someone else is hanging. I have to let it go and I am obsessing more than I should.

We played some good tennis this weekend which is always nice. I also did some good stretching at least once over the weekend. I should stop this right now and do a workout it may be the only thing that will make me feel great right now.

How can it be that someone can have almost everything they want or need and still feel empty? I need some gratitude. That is my problem, I need to look at the big picture and see the good and not the negative.