Tag: Francis Bacon

January 17, 2014

Walter White, I Am The One Who Knocks, by Borbay

Visiting some galleries in late 2012 with his Wife Marla, a gentleman by the name of Robert Oringer who never considered himself an art guy/collector, had an epiphany moment. He saw some collage art and it got him thinking about the crazy collection of NY Post issues he had amassed over decades— piles of NY Posts meticulously protected and stored away without any objective in mind. So he went to Google and began to search the Net for collage artists, one perhaps to convert his collection into art when he stumbled upon another Post fanatic… yours truly.

December 6, 2011

Painting Process | Hunter S. Depp A Portrait of Two Men on One Canvas

If I am in the studio painting, I’m watching movies — all day long. One of my all-time favorites is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas… as it happens, so I decided to capture both Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson as one. Both of these creative gents have brought me a great deal of enjoyment, so I figured why not ride this strange torpedo out to the end?

November 27, 2011

MOMA, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Football on Short Beach

Photographing someone watching someone else photograph Starry Night. Seven eyeballs, four lenses, one picture.

January 11, 2011

Metropolitan Museum of Art Painting

It took me two years of being a full-time artist to understand how a single painting could span multiple years. Sure, some large-scale works just take time. Others, like in the case of the Metropolitan Museum of Art — I simply looked at it for 18 months and simply determined it was finished. After the jump, the full process as written in 2009.