© Bob Kisken
April, 2008:
William Donovan on TOAST
Friday April 25, 5:00 to 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 26, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 27, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Monday, April 28, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
What’s Mine Is Yours 17″x 17″ © William Donovan
Intrinsically Disordered 8.5″x 11″ © William Donovan
Baptism 40 x 40 © William Donovan
Studio
515 Greenwich St. # 420
New York, New York 10013
917.623.6844
Email
DUKEDONOVAN@EARTHLINK.NET
My work is driven by personal experiences. Experiences such as Loss, Lust and Spirituality, are utilized to create drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Materials such as rubber, flocking, reflective glass, and polyurethane, conspire with intuition to create a strong graphic visual as well as shape and unveil content. – William Donovan
The TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour is a free, self-guided tour of approximately 100 artists’ studios throughout TriBeCa. Bringing artists and the public together, it provides an opportunity for visitors to interact with the artists and see their artwork at the source, the artist’s own studio. An artist-run organization, TOAST has led a true metropolitan “grass roots” path. It began as an ad-hoc group of artists who wanted to revive a neighborhood art walk. Now a not-for-profit organization, it is still a grass roots effort, run by the participating artists. Neighborhood businesses and supporters supplement most of the needed funds not covered by the artists’ entry fees.
A Series of Vertically Oriented Cylindrical Objects – Happy Earth Day!
© Frank H. Jump
Happy Earth Day!
Vincenzo (my partner in life and love) has the tendency to uncover interesting ephemera while doing demolition on the apartments he renovates. Here are two bits dating back to the early 1960’s- Rubin’s Delicatessen with the GRamercy-3 telephone exchange (Gramercy Park got its name from a corruption of the Dutch “krom mesje” or crooked little knife) and the Schaefer Beer Can, which brings back fond memories of the 1969 World Series and my father watching television. I remember watching the men landing on the Moon and wondering how they had already gotten there to set up cameras.
My first Earth Day – which was THE FIRST EARTH DAY – was in April 1970. I had done a report in fifth grade about the Food of the Future: Soy. I predicted that soy burgers would one day become popular with the American public. I also predicted that the United States would be slow to convert to metric – which was supposed to occur that year. If only my prescience could have extended to future Lotto Numbers…
Read more about Campbell’s Soup’s attempt to be green.
“For here am I floating ’round my tin-can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do”
David Bowie – Space Oddity
Another Holy Roller Going Up Interstate 84 Outside Matamoras PA
© Frank H. Jump
Yada, yada, yada.
Ma nishtana ha-laila ha-zeh mi-kol ha-leilot?
Why is this night different from all other nights?
Passing moments as these under an ample dusk moon
And under other holy rollers.
Spectral Cervidae – Pocono Deer Nocturnal Grazing – April 18, 2008
Where are the moments from here to there?
Two Years Ago – April 19, 2006 – Deer Caught in the Quantum Wobble
Deer – Cervidae
