artworks created in 2025
Ink on sketchbook page
2025
A Supertramp song popped up in the radio and the reaction was, “let’s make a drawing”. Music inspired, phonograph record label inspired drawing.
Acrylic on Paper
2025
A humble tribute to Brian Wilson, a “thank you” for what he did during the peak of his creative life, the album Pet Sounds.
After watching this eloquent breakdown of how the song was constructed in this video from David Bennet, one should give it even more credit.
God Only Knows is a song that our ears approve regardless, but understanding its layers of complexity make for a more complete experience; also it provides us with a better understanding of the artist and his creative process.
And the icing on the cake, is the two part video from the Youtube channel Behind the Sounds, “God Only Knows Part 1” and “God Only Knows Part 2”
Untitled (Sly)
Graphite on paper
2025
The world is just a tad less funky, but Sly will live on through the music he left behind.
Acrylic marker on acid free paper
8.5 x 11 in (21 x 29.7 cm)
2025
Phonograph record labels are cool. Drawing and painting phonograph record labels, a new obsession. It can start with the music (or not). The aesthetic of a label can drive the process. The rest is just work, like all other studio activity.
About Black Sabbath, the band…
Genius Rap (Tom Tom Club) Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde
Acrylic on Canvas
2025
Harvest (Neil Young)
Oil on Linen
2025
Verve Records (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
Acrylic and Silver Paint on Canvas
2025
Phonograph record labels are cool.
No technology used, manufactured in the United States of America.
Untitled (Velvet Underground & Nico)
Graphite on tracing paper
11 x 12 in, 28 x 30.5 cm
2025
I was still living in New York city when Andy Warhol passed away. I had not yet started probing art, but I remember the profound impact his passing had on the city.
Andy was a NYC fixture. He was a celebrity. Everyone was talking about his unexpected death, from truck drivers to coffee shop workers.
I think only Andy Warhol could have produced this album. The songs, the band, Nico, all seem a natural extension of Andy’s body of work. And his practice extended into film making as well.
I had seen Lou Reed perform at the Pyramid Club in the East Village. It was one of my favorite nightclubs, a place where locals hang out, instead of the mega clubs that catered to the tourists primarily. He is the author of all of the songs in this record.
This particular record is a masterpiece. It never gets old. And it is still ahead of our times even today.
The most recent painting, a tribute to one of my favorite musicians. And a much smaller painting than the “medium” sized, 4 feet by 3 feet size I’ve embraced in the last few years.
Definitely one of the most influential jazz musicians that ever walked on this Earth. Miles Davis was also in a league on his own as far as his overall style.
The way he dressed, for instance, was also unique, and just like his music, ahead of the times.
Ten years ago I painted a series of poster size cartoon heads (see inset image); at the time I was not sure how they would fit in the overall scheme of my art practice.
During 2017 and 2018 I created a series of medium & large cartoon head paintings.
Left: Untitled (Head and palm tree)
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 in
2017
Right: Untitled (Pink head profile)
24 by 18 in
Acrylic on canvas
2017
As a young boy, I watched the horrific crash in the Nurburgring race track in Germany as it happened, live, on TV during the German GP of 1976.
Niki Lauda was the top Ferrari driver at that time, the reigning Formula 1 world champion.
The notoriously dangerous track was wet since it had been raining. Lauda’s Ferrari lost control, spun, hit the side rail and back to the track in flames and ended up getting hit by other cars unable to avoid him.
The sheer size of the circuit also meant that weather and track conditions around it could vary wildly with some sections dry and others wet, making a safe choice of tyres difficult or impossible.
He was seriously burned, but survived the accident and resumed racing that same year, once he recovered from his injuries.
This was the second tribute to a racing driver painting I made these past few weeks.