Gearing up for Ft. Lauderdale

Check out the link to my gallery in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida--Artists' Haven Gallery: It's featuring the card for my upcoming show in January 2010. The thumbnail of my artwork is a detail of this painting, "Dreams on Fire," 30x24 oil on canvas. Having a name that is at the beginning of the alphabet is a bonus for "top billing!" (Smile)

It would be pretty cool if lots of people could come to the show! I plan to exhibit seven paintings total, including four that have never been seen before. One is still on my easel, awaiting final touches!

January should be a great time to visit Ft. Lauderdale and the Miami area. Way warmer than High Rolls, where we currently have over 10" of fresh snow!

Art Acquisitor Magazine

Greetings, after a long hiatus! Life has been on fast-forward the last month or so! Our daughter Sally Chambers Pias has just completed work on and defended her dissertation for her Phd. in Biochemistry at New Mexico State University. I've been spending my "blog time" taking care of our granddaughter so that her mom could work extra. The hard work paid off--Sally is now "Dr. Pias" and will soon start work on her post-doc fellowship at State University of New York!

I wanted to share a new resource--Art Acquisitor Magazine--that features art work by many of the artists in Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, who represent my art in New York City. See the article and my painting on page 43. You can view this magazine on this link. I really like the quote from Aristotle: "Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies."

While I would not always say that my paintings "complete [nature's] deficiencies," I do take liberties to reflect my own emotions and feelings about what I'm painting.

I am currently working on two new series for two upcoming group shows: Amsterdam Whitney Gallery exhibit, Chelsea, New York, NY, Nov. 6-Dec. 1, with the reception Nov. 12th; and Artists' Haven Gallery exhibit in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 2010, with the reception Jan. 9th, 2010.

A New Gallery

I have just this weekend been accepted into another gallery! This one is in Ft. Lauderdale, FL--Artists' Haven Gallery. They are "johnny-on-the-spot" with posting my work to their web site: Artists' Haven Gallery --very cool!

The first event for me at Artists' Haven will be having a few pieces in an all-gallery group show. Stay posted for more details.

Meanwhile, I've been hard at work getting some underpaintings done for a new series of horses. You might enjoy seeing one that I'll be sending to Rive Gauche Gallery in Scottsdale soon. It's called "Am I Blue?", 30"x30" oil on gallery-wrapped canvas.