Recent Work & Projects

Extinction is gone forever. Artwork by an XR comrade.

adhesive sticker

throughout the site, Clik on images to enlarge….

Combining my interest in sculptural visuals

and èpater les bourgeois and all climate deniers including those who know but ignore…

Each lamp post can host 12 8 1/2″ x 11″

This will be the next lamp post art. ordered enough for 20 lamp posts.

Stay tuned.

1″ cross grained reverse 1/2″ plywood

22.5″ diameter with archival glued photoshop image

Oil base black paint edge and back

3 coats gloss acrylic sealer

Global Heating, the continued threat of Nuclear Holocaust & Rebel for Life

The situation is dire!

Greta Thunberg Swedish Nobel Laureate candidate, coming to NYC for a massive Student Strike for survival at the UN September 20th.
Extinction  Rebellion Global will stage a massive non violent direct action disruption here in NYC Monday October 7th. I expect it will be my 3rd arrest, with many more to follow as global heating progresses. xrebellion.nyc

Extinction Rebellion which originated in London shutting down 5 Thames bridges last November to bring attention to the lack of appropriate response to climate change. We blocked traffic on 5th Ave on January 26, and hung a banner on Prometheus at Rockefeller skating rink! 9 arrested court date March 25th. Extinction Rebellion week starting April 15th.

So this has disappeared off the garden fence. If you took it, glad you liked it enough to steal it and please at least pay for it.

5 babies

3 forests burning

3 mammoth hurricanes

March 2018

Climate Change Awareness Banner for La Plaza Cultural

A malevolent sun

Rising seas

Burning forests

Fema flood map show La Plaza Community Garden

which was flooded by superstorm Sandy and all the fish swam away and the turtles died

Seasonably adjustable solar panels (see next image)

laplazacultural.com

3-0 x 5-0

Explanatory poster for my low voltage

solar power installation powering the pond pump waterfall

at LaPlazaCultural.com

       Climate Change Greatest Threat & Challenge

Review of Elizatheth Kolbert’s book The 6th Extinction

klik on image to enlarge

1980 mural amended 2017

Originally drawn and painted on the wall of NoRio gallery’s inaugural show

produced most recently as a 5″x7″ postcard 100 copies

and as a 16″x20″ poster 4 copies

original non extant

Available in various formats

Rosscape II

plaster screening plywood twigs brick photo feather glue acrylic model landscape grit 4″ lazysusan

approximately 20″ x 12″ x 2″  slightly variable verticality

October 2012
         brick, plywood, DVD fragment
                   4″w x 6″h x 2″d    Sold at benefit auction for WBAI November 2017

Dove #3

15″ x 16″ x 2-1/2″

Available Sold

Walking Up A Steep Incline While Remaining Perpendicular

Proposal for a residential lobby

April 2017 new work

about 18″ x 6″ x 2″

Available

After DuBuffet

7″ x 11″ x 2-1/2″

Available

7″ x 5″ x 1.5″

Available

December 2016 Gallery Exhibit

Please join me on my birthday for a reception of this years presentation of my work, December 8th from 6 to 8 pm at Ceres Gallery Exposures show. 547 W 27th St, 2nd floor.

The show is over long live the show!

For a signed postcard rsvp to peacenow9@gmail.com with your email requesting same. Note the country of origin on the stamp above.

Installation snap shot.

Available

80’s
Cast plaster and acrylic
11″ x 11″ x 1.5″
© Before their time, revolutionaries seized power on the island of Grenada with the agenda to build a socialist society. Apparently internecine struggle ended it quickly, but still the U.S. had to invade to make sure no such remnants existed that might dare challenge U.S. capitalist hegemony. What they did wrong? Asked Cuba to help them upgrade their airport!

Available

The Bishop piece image on a coffee mug. Cool! Right?

Available

Form is Emptiness/Form

Self Portrait, or Years of Therapy   Approximately 14″ x 5″ x 3″

               art as a metaphysical endeavor

or

Homage to Bergson

Available

This is a reproduction I did of a work by Madame Binh Graphics Collective 1977 to 1983. A group I was loosely associated with. I wore it at the opening as I had decided to show mainly my more political work this year of heightening contradictions. The Bishop coffee mug, and the t-shirt are available for mass reproduction if George Soros wants to fund it. George?

Available

A few home movies

https://vimeo.com/user8070173/videos

Projects from my erstwhile career as a woodworker.

Gorchov Facsimiles December 2014 Ceres Gallery New Work

All work, except indicated, are made from wire mesh, plaster gauze, joint compound, wood & acrylic.

Red and Blue

13″ x 17″ x 2″

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The Aura of Art Is $

9″ x 11″ x  2″

Wood, photo copy, inked text, glass

Pink and Red

15″ x 17″ x 4″

 Blue & Yellow is now Green & Black

17″ x 13 1/2″ x 5 1/2″

Available

Spring 2014 Urban Cave Gallery show

Opening Thursday May 15th  6 to 8 pm

The above is the poster for the show at Hector Quintana’s Urban Cave Gallery.

All the work sold (to friends and acquaintances) for an average of $50.

One item went for a meal and a beer.

World’s Collide

tribute to Sun Ra

private collection

3″ x 14″ x 22″

Running

Private Collection

3″ x 13″ x 12″

after Basquiat

Private Collection

2.5″x 12″ x 17″

Wound

also Private Collection

as all five pieces are now in.

2.5″ x 11″ x 16″

Fey Object

Private Collection

2.5″ x 14″ x 16″

metamorphed into Rosscape

2013 Ceres Show

Homage to Great Artists

Go to

http://youtu.be/go0sL2qqvLI

for a video of opening night with a few moments of my work.

About 2/3 into the video.

I sold the “Soutine” and placed the “Russell” and 2nd “Soutine” with friends!

Rock hung on branch

Horizontal and slanted vertical

1 Rock 5 Pics at La Plaza 08-09,10,11-13 and continuing as of this date. The heavy rain this a.m. doesn’t seem to have affected it much.

image with www.shreddedmatter.com tear off’s. Situated near 1 rock 5 pics at La Plaza.

5 pics of 1 rock:  1 frame 381

twigs, glue
6″ x 20″

12″ x 28″ x 2″

twigs, glue
4″ x 16″
Private Collection

twigs, glue
3″ x 8″

This is 3 pics of 1 rock. See at top.

5 quarry stones

9″x 10″ x 1.5″

Cellar Studio

October 2012
brick, plywood, detritus, epoxy, silicone 8″w x 6″h x 2″d

X Is
11″ x 11″ x 2″

2012
brick, plywood, acrylic
5″ x 5″ x 2.5″ private collection

2012
brick, plywood, acrylic
5″ x 5″ x 2.5″

October 2012
brick, plywood, DVD fragment
4″w x 6″h x 2″d

October 2012
brick, plywood, DVD fragment
4″w x 6″h x 2″d

October 2012
brick, plywood, appropriated resin reproduction
6″w x 11″h x 3″d

Private Collection
The collector has named this piece Willa.

2012
brick, plywood, appropriated resin reproduction
Approximately 9″ x 6″ x 2.5″

Display from the Urban Cave show.

Homage to Arthur Dove

This is a reworking of a prior rendition inspired by Dove’s work.

He is purported to be the first abstract American painter.

this was completed 2017-18

Available

From Arthur Dove’s Ferryboat Wreck 1931.

Grey waves version.

11″ x 6″ x 4.75″

Available

Private Collection

Red Streak version.

2012 From Dove’s River Bottom 1923
Quarry stones, aluminum screen, plaster gauze, wood, acrylic paint
10″ x 12″ x 3″
Private Collection

This is an image of the original Arthur Dove painting that I cribbed the previous piece from . I rotated the image for mine. River Bottom 1923.

2012  Based on Dove’s work
stones, plywood, acrylic
9″ x 6″ x 2.5″ Destroyed in Hurricane Sandy flood.

2012
brick, plywood, acrylic
5″ x 5″ x 2.5″

Small Work

Shredded Matter: some 13.8 billion years and humans are reflecting our universal environment with unprecedented accuracy!

Dilettante’s Stone

Stone With Real and Ersatz Shadow

Gun Control!

The tables have turned! It’s now a stone with magnetic backing. 1″ x 1″x 1/4″

3 stones
2″ x 1.5″ x 1″
Private Collection

Early Political Work

The image above is a recreation of a piece I did for the 1979/80 Real Estate Show on Delancey St.
http://www.abcnorio.org/about/history/res_statement_80.html
The original was a plaster shield like piece, with a hammer and sickle in the center and text around the shape. In this reproduction, which is in the No Rio archives, it is a blow up of a photo with additional ink stamped text.

Early 80’s
Cast plaster and acrylic
11″ x 11″ x 1.5″ This is from the Order of Lenin that the USSR used to hand out. I don’t know if Gorbachev got one. I think I have 3 left.

Stenciled box for the Lenin piece. One left.

Early 80’s
Cast plaster and acrylic
17″ X 2″

80’s
Cast plaster and acrylic
11″ x 11″ x 1.5″
Before their time, revolutionaries seized power on the island of Grenada with the agenda to build a socialist (equable) society. Apparently internecine struggle ended it quickly, but still the U.S. had to invade to make sure no such remnants existed that might dare challenge U.S. neo-liberal hegemony. And because killing people is part and parcel of the foreign and domestic policy of our Freedom Loving Politicians. Except for Bernie Sanders and a few others.  Long live the Monroe Doctrine! [Tongue firmly set in cheek.]

Party of Workers and Peasants of the Congo. This was for Serge MuKendi, who I haven’t heard from in years. A revolutionary from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was part of the struggle against a tyrant that made sure that U.S. and other western nations received the lion’s share of the natural wealth of Africa, at slave wages. He asked me to design a button and some flags, which I did and threw in this bas relief.

Earlier Work

On a somewhat different note. This is a repro of a sculpture by Joel Shapiro. (4″ x 4″ x 3″)I made 6 or so and sold two at the Times Square show, which came after the ABC No Rio show, which came after the 01/01/80 Real Estate show, a guerrilla action/performance break in of an abandoned property on Delancey St. Google it!

Boxed and Glassed in Sail
19″ x 19″ x 5″
Glass, solder, wood, cardboard, newsprint

Years of Therapy

13″