Loch Gallery at FryeWorks

Either side of the red oak tree. In a few weeks we will live in the tree.

Wall mounted, tapered, flat screen TV shelf with cubbies for turntable, CD player, DVD player, and cable boxes below. 16 deep at the right end, 10 deep at the left end, 80 long, all curved edges. The main surface will be mounted about 25 up from the floor to achieve a 40 eye level with the lateral center of the TV screen. This TV shelf is part of an overall plan to save about 30 cubic feet of storage area in the living room. #nycapartments #nycdesign

The first artwork I did finally make in the summer/fall of 1994 is Equipoise, 36 x 48, acrylic and oil on wood panel. Using the same process I used for the coffee table but painted edge forms over the sanded base, and added colored varnishes over the white paint. Still owing a great deal to Robert Calvo’s work, but I added my painted edge forms and glazing techniques from the Saint Helices works up to that point. The SH series were at #55(?) at this juncture.

Spring/Summer of 1994came home to Montreal after mom’s passing, marriage broke in pieces, couldn’t stand the idea of making art, but needed some furniturea coffee table at least! This was my creative project at the time. Definitely a technique stolen from Robert Calvopaint multiple coats of varying colors and belt sand through, then varnish. Now that I think about it, six years earlier I had an exhibition of several paintings including this technique but they were all b...lack and white painted layers, no color. I’ve been stealing from Calvo for longer than I remembered! Ha! I chose the color of the paint to compliment the color of the bare wood. Not accounting for oxidization of the tannins in the wood, so so the tone of the wood color darkened. Still, pretty wild result. Probably too much for a coffee table, but, this was how I rolled in 1994. See more

Framing 18 x 24 landscape paintings I made 15 years ago in float frames. Oil on canvas panel. The moldings are about 1 3/4 wide and are my design. One gray finish, two white, probably. That’s the same painting in all three frames for the sake of creating a quick mock-up.