A hundred years ago I started a line of hand-printed clothing that I sold every night to the tourist’s during sunset at Mallory Square in Key West, Florida. It was the 80’s, the work was primitive, and I was supporting myself while living in a tropical paradise. Luck and being in the right place at […]
Archives for December 2014
Old Work – New Gallery
Ten years ago I created a small series of work that made a very brief public appearance that was never shown again. Two of the four – photography/collage/mix-media pieces are now hanging in the new X Gallery in Eureka Springs. Owner and artist Kris Cross is providing a welcomed venue for artists attempting slightly edgier […]
Still Life
“That’s how I’d like to go. Peacefully in a big bowl of fruit, except there would be fresh figs instead of mangoes.” That was my good friend Nancy Baptiste’s recent reaction to my 2003 photograph titled “Still Life” that I thought would be appropriate for this months group show at Brews. This month I invited […]
What Goes Around Comes Around
In the early 90’s I came out with a popular, mostly women’s line of hand printed clothing under the “Is It Art Label” which I sold in Key West and later brought up to Eureka Springs. I worked with a designer in Pennsylvania to create an all cotton, comfortable, stylish line of clothing which I had dyed […]
First AIDS (In Memory of Joe)
Today is World AIDS Day, a reminder of the many creative souls we lost way too early to AIDS, and its continuing spread, here and world wide. I lived in Key West during the height of the plague from 1984 to 1996 and felt its devastation in our small community. “First AIDS (In Memory of Joe)” was […]