NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND

We invited our good friends Joseph and Bianca over for breakfast last Saturday and by the end of our meal we had decided to get in their car and drive somewhere. We grabbed a few things and were on the road by noon headed for Rhode Island. Rhode Island because it seemed like a doable distance and a new enough place. On the way there we used our phones to find an exact location / intriguing place, Newport came up. "Sounds perfect, lets go there." Having absolutely no plans or expectations made for wonderful time (and a hotel with a pool). I hope to do this again sometime very soon. Thanks for the wheels and good company J/B!

BEAUTIFULLY BANAL

A show I curated a show for the Type Directors Club the past year and is up, and finally open! I am happy to say it is receiving a great response. Soon after my Cardon Copy show last year I was approached by Matteo Bologna to curate a show based on mine for the 2010 silent auction. The outcome being Beautifully Banal. The experience has been amazing, and I have gotten to meet and become friends with some amazing individuals. Please visit the website to become familiar or stop by if you are in the neighborhood!

TOWNSHIP OF DENVILLE

We spent the weekend in Denville New Jersey, the home town of our soon to be married good friends Graydon and Lindsay. Also going so Kelly could attend Lindsay's wedding shower. It is a beautiful community with lots of trees, ponds and lakes. On Saturday morning we had perfect weather for a morning hike to "hawks look out." Afterword, while the gals showered Lindsay, me and Graydon grabed some lunch followed by ice cream and a stroll around the center of town. It was when each of us were about half way through our ice cream that we realized we were on a date... we were ok with that.

IT'S APRIL, FOOLZ!

MY NEW LOOK!

Check out my new doo! It was a long time coming, (as many of you know) I have been toying with the idea of cutting my hair short for-e-ver. I was super nervous, but didn't "wuss out" as Cardon said I would. I decided since I was going for such a big change i might as well throw some color into the mix too. Though have to admit I am not to happy with the color, but I love the cut! It is weird to see my own picture and reflection in the mirror, I don't recognize myself, the new me...

MEXICO IN REVERIE

RED

Kelly and I recently saw the broadway play RED. We really enjoyed the dialog and discussion (Though we are a bit bias, because we like Rothko!). A highlight was some frantic live painting which left both actors covered in, you guessed it -red.

Written by John Logan, (Sweeney Todd, The Aviator, Gladiator and The Last Samurai) Red is a portrait of Mark Rothko, the 20th century artist known for his large canvases of color. The play recently opened at the Donmar Warehouse. It's simply two actors, one set – all the action revolves around increasingly adversarial conversations between Rothko (Alfred Molina) and his assistant (Eddie Redmayne) during a two-year period at the end of the 1950s, when Rothko was working on a highly paid commission to provide a series of murals for the new Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan's Seagram Building.

The last decade of Rothko's life his palette reduce dramatically – the refulgent primaries, the glowing oranges and yellows, of his first colour-field paintings giving way to a predominance of increasingly sombre shades of red and black: bruised plum, tarnished magenta, deep scarlet.

Sculptures by Nick van Woert

See more of his intriguing work here. Beautiful colors and forms.