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Beyond the Canvas Event-

I recently signed up for a local plein air competition hosted by MARN. This plein air competition is different than the tradition of painting outdoors. It’s about going “beyond the canvas” and includes multiple categories for submissions for instance: traditional, sculpture/assemblage, time based media, digital/photography, & printmaking.

As a painter entering into the traditional [...]

Beanstalks and You

In some of my research I’ve been looking at old fairytales and myths, recently becoming interested in the Jack and the Beanstalk tale.  I found an interesting article analyzing and comparing it, I thought it was a good read.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/marvels_and_tales/v015/15.1goldberg.pdf

-Nick

Interstellar Burst

A Moment's Rest

A delicious rush can be felt today; creeping through through my veins and tensing up my muscles as when I was a young kid opening Christmas gifts or beginning the first day of school. So much of my process not as an artist but as a person can feel so fallible and loosely [...]

Material and Concept

Here is a series  I made several years ago depicting one landmass  interpreted and recorded differently by four civilizations.  You can see drastic changes in each of the four maps: (to check out high res images of these click here).