Monday, October 25, 2010

Picture of the Week #100 "James Rosenquist"

Picture of the Week #100 "James Rosenquist" Los Angeles, California USA 1977 Signed and Stamped

I first met Jimmy when he was working at Gemini G.E.L., the number one publisher of limited edition prints by the world's leading artists. We hit it off right away and talked the day away, while he continued to produce a new image, I took pictures. The painting behind him titled "Fahrenheit 1982 was done five years later. I put the two photos together recently for a show I am having at the French Consulate General's here in Beverly Hills. Although the show was to be primarily images from France, they requested to show my suite of portraits of the great American POP artists, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Ruscha and Rosenquist. I loved the colors in the painting matching his shirt. And check out the November issue of "SilverShotz" the high end magazine journal of fine art Phootography where they did a 12 page article on my series "Holy Men Medicine Men MAd Men".

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Picture of the Week #99 "Neimans Bound"

Picture of the Week #99 "Neimans Bound" Beverly Hills, California USA 2010 Signed and Stamped

What can I say?

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Picture of the Week #98 "Shipwreck"

Picture of the Week #98 "Shipwreck" Bremerton, Washington 2010 Signed and Stamped

While visiting the Elandan Gardens, I walked out towards the water and caught this boat sitting on the side. With the ominous clouds against the color in the trees, I knew that this would be a very nice picture. Usually, I prefer people pictures, but this landscape just seemed right for today's Picture of the Week.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Picture of the Week #97 "Girl in Station"

Picture of the Week #97 "Girl in Station" Shanghai, China 1980 Signed and Stamped

This is one of my favorite images from my scouting trip to China when I was working on the ill fated movie "Footprints of the Pheasant in the Snow". This image then became a painting and then became the poster for an exhibition of my work from China a year later. I gave a poster to Bernardo Bertolucci as he was leaving to make his incredible film "The Last Emperor". He left me a voice mail message saying that he hoped his film came out as good as my painting and thanked me for giving it to him. The rest was history.