stART Space

there's a new 'emerging artists' contemporary art gallery in nearby
manchester, vermont .. we have long had high quality, established galleries such as tilting at windmills, the southern vermont art center, and lisa helmholz fine art showcasing very high end, representational art from longstanding local painters.  the ellenbogens hope to encourage a new generation of collectors
whose focus may be on the more contemporary side.

mission statement

a few photos of the gallery, in the former ems store in manchester,
a busy location with lots of parking .. below are some selected works
from the stARTSpace website .. i have not made the website yet as i just joined
the other five founding artists this week.

it's a big commercial space, and it has only been open a week,
but i am excited to be included as i actually consider myself
as a still 'emerging' painter ... below are six works from the last two months ..

and below are four from the spring of this year

and i have also included some paintings i did with my friend horst rodies
that i have blogged about here before ...

and they allowed me to sprinkle in a piece or two of furniture to give the space
a place to perch and read for a moment.

stop in if you are in town.  lots to see.

dan's painting's ... a woodworker does color

ok ... i've been fooling around with this stuff

now for a couple years and i am ready to let it out of the bag ...

i like color!  

woodworking, there's not so much.  you've got

your different woods, your lights and your darks, your curlies

and your burls and other oddities, but the tones are earthy, and after a while,

they sort of blend and you find yourself fussing with subtle variations of brown

over and over and over.  red brown, green brown, light brown, dark brown ...

where are the cadmium reds and oranges, the cerulean blues?

you can't find them in the wood pile ...

so, off to the right there is a new page with a link to a slideshow

of my paintings, only some of which are shown here.  you can see all of them

at this link  i've got a million of em ...

trust me, this is just the beginning.  i am inspired not only

by my friend horst , a multidisciplined creator if ever there was one, but also by reading recently

on the mid century americans, motherwell, johns, diebenkorn, krasner, frankenthaler, o'keefe ...

you get the idea ... 

i plan to add to this post, which will also be accessible from the 'dan's paintings' page 

once it leaves 'home'

enjoy, comment, criticize ... i am open to your thoughts ..

ps .. it looks like you may have to sign into your google account to view the slideshow
ever since they ditched picasa, i have been having trouble sharing new slide shows
my sincere apologies ... 

a painting a day

i have been trying to do a small painting a day since the first of march ... 

below are a few of them ...

click the photos to enlarge them.

 

'daffodils '

'blue bird'

'the rooster and the egg'

'paul klee comes to visit'

4/4 .. 'blue diver'

 'danby four corners 1995' 4/1

 

'washington monument'

'plaid 32117'

'the reds and the blues duke it out'

'color field 31117'

'casper the ghost'

'quilt'

'thoughts of spring'

 
'stripes'

'orange'

'a small pond'

'helmet'