As I mention often, I paint my life as it unfolds, which is to say I’m easily inspired and as the internal & external mechanisms take over, I take the materials I have readily available and get to work. I work out a lot of the concept & most details in my head before I ever touch paint to substrate. I like to think theres a certain amount of franetic mindful kinetic-energy put forth and related to by the veiwers. Its true there’s an amount of freedom in my approach thats reflected in my work. I was speaking to another creative days ago and restated this thought, don’t seek perfection in a single piece, perfection is in the doing, completing and starting the next piece. Which is to say overworking a piece or going back to a piece and reworking it is seldom, in, at least my case, garners better results. In fact I I believe taking what you’ve learned from the a accumulations of completed artworks and applying all that knowledge to the next piece is where all the learning and perfection lay, as a lifetime and the several thousand pieces can attest too. The first attempt makes it an original reworking it makes it somethig else, a shadow of the original concept.
I LUV the Chicagoland area and everything that comes with it. The diversity in the arts, music, dance & theater scenes are the absolute best. I do not seek places to paint, but seek a life well lived and paint it as it unfolds. Here's some of my/our Chicagoland adventures that are available including The Chicago Theater, the Metro, VIC, Riviera, AIC, CIBC, Genessee, Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theater, Salt Shed, Arcada, Music Box, United Center, Copernicus, Martin Theater Ravinia, the Breakers, some architechtural scapes and of course several more, not represented here, on my website...message me for info, should anything strike your fancy for consideration.
Gratefully Yours~ Here's where my work can be viewed, in person, currently: top left to right & down...Proud Fox Gallery & Frame Shop, Geneva Il., PEACE, LOVE & LIGHT is entered in a mental health exhibit, TBA, 2 mini abstracts are at Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, 10x10, opening November 3 2026- January 10, 2027, Water Street Studio, Batavia, Il. PORTRAIT exhibit 3rd place, PRIDE is in the November 2026 edition of the international Artist CloseUP Magazine, There’s a feature coming out in Kane County Magazine later this month & I also entered in the international Circle Foundation for the Arts competition TBA, Mack's 1st Snow is at Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles Il. & finally you can contact me directly if anything strikes your fancy or imagination. I pack & ship around the world. By years end, 2026, I will have participated in 11 exhibitions, mostly group ones, with the Artists Sunday Road Rally at PFG & Mental Health exhibits opening the end of November & December.
*NOTE~ The last image here of CHICAGO 30”x30” SOLD as I was writing this blog. Honored, Grateful & Thrilled.
Thank You likers, followers, patrons & colllectors alike.
as always your questioms & comments are welcome
Richard
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