Key West Art Bar show last nite...

recovering today from the run-up to last nite's show of my recent paintings at the Key West Art Bar.....things went well and the show was well attended...well recieved. I'm a bit worn out from the workload.....i'll be continuing to paint in key west for a few more weeks...until the first week of April. My 6oth birthday falls on the 6th of April...quite a weight! Lost some old friends this year and i'm more cognizant than ever of the temporality of things...that's the conundrum....as a painter i make things and i guess my main motivation is to conjur some sort of visual alchemy..as a figurative artist, i create vignettes  depicting scenes from a constantly changing world. Time passes...and in the passing i try to shine a light on memorable moments...that all too quickly drift into the past. 

key west art bar

i have been very busy this season in key west. Wrapping up 30 new small paintings. They go on exhibit @ the Key West Art Bar on March 5th. A nostalgic nod to what what once were more common scenes of key west...folks gathered on porches of small eclectic homes...playing cards in the afternoon shade. Otherwise i have been doing "house portraits" on commission. Come this thursday, i inaugurate yet another relationship w/ a key west art gallery......over thirty two years i have shown my paintings w/ quite a few venues... i am excited about this new gallery, the Key West Art Bar and i anxious to show off my new work. I've about another month to go here in the keys.....a little r&r at the beach for a week, after the show and then i start focusing on new york city...i stop off and show my pix in SOHO enroute to Maine and my studio in BlueHill......where i AM BlueHillArtist.com

spring is right around the corner...folks in blue hill, maine are anxiously awaiting the return of artist/painter george lee crosby to his moose lane studio...not to worry, i'm still in key west, florida...working hard prepping two upcoming shows..the first) february22nd@The Gardens Hotel on Angela st.( it'll will run from 4-7pm in conjunction w/ Jazz Sunday) the second) inauguaral show @ The Key West Art Bar  on march 1rst., the first thursday in March. Hang in there maineahrtist will be back in time to see his garden start to bloom!

directart.org

have you been to directart.org?....i've a small site hosted there. It gives some info regarding my painting and future plans. g

andrew wyeth passes...

thinking about the long consequential career of andrew wyeth. My route to painting in Maine came about with less ineluctable precision than that of wyeth. i sort of blundered into maine. in the midst of a hideously overheated july ...in manhattan, i came upon a book of photographs of Eliot Porter....mostly of his family home on great spruce island in the middle of penobscot bay. The light bulb over my head went off! "i gotta get outta this place"!...well, a decade or so later, i've found myself living in Blue Hill, Maine and working out of a studio on Moose Lane...with a beautiful view of penobscot bay....

3.6trillion!!!!!!!!!!

roubinni says we're on the verge of a total nationalization of finance...3.6trillion in bad paper!....britain, as well...about time to stop sleep walking , america!. glc

been a while....

i'm in key west...got here a week ago...spent new years w/ friends in miami..been on the road over a month..left maine on dec. 4th...it was just before the winter weather set in...good timing...headed for Hudson , ny where i had a small show of paintings @ LImner Gallery...spent two weeks in nyc painting and selling pix up until xmas...weather was rough..did well enough w/ sales....given the economic conditions...drive down I95 was hellasish as usual w/ cheap gas it took on the proportions of a Mad Max film....stayed in palm beach area for a while..pretty sterile...miami more to my liking...now in sunny key west for a couple of months...painting daily and taking commissions for house portraits....saving my money for studio i intend to build this spring, back in blue hill, maine.