BAM Show was a big success! The show’s two-month-run just came to close last week. Almost all pieces sold, and we had an overwhelming 200+ guest turnout for our official reception on March 1.
BAM homecoming and installation pix
Next Friday marks the public opening of my collaborative portrait project with photographer partner Michael O’Shea at BAM. The show will be on display in BAM’s Diker Gallery through March. Having spent many of my formative professional years working at BAM, it feels amazing to be welcomed back in this capacity. In fact, many of the subjects in this project are friends, colleagues, and mentors that I encountered during my time at BAM, and later during my tenure at Pratt Institute--and some have ties to both institutions. We will be donating a percentage of proceeds from all sales towards the BAMart program and Pratt endowed scholarship funds to keep the spirit of this project moving full-circle. Visit collabculture.com for more details.
high-fashion... low-brow
My pal Milton’s limited addition clothing line, M. Carter, has just released its annual “Faces of Death” t-shirt series that pays tribute to celebrities that have passed away during the calendar year. Each year the design incorporates a select celebrity portrait submitted by a unique and different artist. This year’s edition features the drawing of Ernest Borgnine that I sketched moments after hearing of his passing back in April. It has been a rough year indeed.
small wonder
Group show of small works coming up in Greenpoint. Now’s your chance to swoop up the first 2 pieces in my Big Things...small canvases series, each priced to sell for the holidays at $222, and both framed in beautiful custom handcrafted pine floater frames built by jack-of-all-trades friend and bandmate Jeremy Hoar. All pieces in the show will be sold for $300 or below.
my metropolitan museum debut
On October 24th, my painting Todd and Kathy for David was featured in the ticketed talk, Égalité? Women as Artists and Patrons in an Age of Revolution, the 4th installment of Kathryn Galitz’s 6-part series Fraternité: French Artists from Revolution to Romanticism—A Lecture Series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Though my Met debut did not technically involve one of my pieces hanging on a wall, my painting was indeed projected to larger-than-life scale alongside its compositional inspiration, Jacques-Louis David’s Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 1788, to modernized comical effect.
Jacques-Louis David, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and His Wife (Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), 102 1/4” x 76 5/8”, Oil on Canvas, 1788
Michael Hambouz, Todd and Kathy (for David), 30”x40”, Acrylic on Canvas, 2012
oliver stone project: paintings come to life on the big screen (or little screen, depending on your tv size)
I just wrapped up an exciting project for Oliver Stone’s new docu-mini-series on Showtime,Untold History of the United States. I created a full hand-painted alphabet to be used for all promotional materials connected with the series along with several large-scale abstract acrylic paintings and splatters to serve as the backdrop for the text. I lit and photographed all painted type and backdrops immediately upon execution to allow for the still wet sheen and thick painterly textures to shine through despite the fancy digitized layering and animation--very cool--I am super pleased with the results. Promo video below for your perusal...for best resolution tune in to Showtime (just started airing over the weekend). More on the behind the scenes process at Behance