Double Decker
April 19, 2008
It's that time of year again! I will be at the Double Decker Arts Festival again this year! It will be on Friday, April 26th, 2008. Look for me in a booth in front of Ajax. I'm hoping to have alot of stuff, but the clock is ticking! It's going to be an eclectic mish mash of art. Alot of stuff that's recent and some that I've done in the past. I'm also entered in their Juried Competition. I entered my Viewmaster painting. I hope to post some new paintings soon.

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New York, New York!
April 18, 2008
I had the privilege of going to New York last weekend. It was awesome! I went with the UM Student Art Association. We got to check out the NYC art scene in the Chelsea district. It was amazing to see what's going on right now and what is relevant. I was a little overwhelmed by it all. There was some good stuff and there was some slop. But what do I know?

We also saw the Whitney Biennial. I had heard that this particular show had gotten pretty bad reviews. And once I saw the show, I can vouch for the critics! I was shocked at the work. I thought it was a load of hogwash and hot air! For the most part, I thought I was looking at alot of Art 101 projects. It seems that the contemporary art world has taken one step forward and two (or more) steps backward! Most of the art was very challenging. It was a crude attempt at being clever or witty, but in my eyes, it just looked like elitist pretension.

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Hiatus
February 27, 2008
I've been on extended hiatus. Sorry, for dropping off the face of the earth! I've posted some new paintings though. There will be more to follow! There will hopefully be a steady flow of new ones as I'm working on stuff for the Double Decker Arts Festival. Here is a self-portrait I'm working on...

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Hard Hat Area
Tuesday - November 13, 2007
Sorry, the site is still under construction! I got the print section up and running though. More to come! Stay tuned!


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Requiem for a Da Vinci
Monday - November 12, 2007
Musician Giovanni Maria Pala has recently discovered that "The Last Supper" could have a lost musical requiem embedded in the composition of the famous fresco. Da Vinci Code Junkies rejoice! However, I think it's a bunch of poppycock. There are all these crazy theories and conspiracies bouncing around out there about Da Vinci. But, I think this is taking it a little far. After intensly studying "The Last Supper," Pala found a composition. At first it didn't make any sense. Then he realized it must be read from left to right, because this was how Da Vinci wrote. It apparently sounds like a somber requiem. Interesting, but improbable. You can find just about anything you want to in art.




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Simpler is Better
Sunday - November 11, 2007
I just re-designed my site! I had originally created a monster when making the old site. It was sooo hard to update. This one is dumbed down a lot. But I think it looks better. I was just trying to be artsy-fartsy with the old one. I found a program on the internet which allowed uploading images to a website a cinch. I don't have to manually go in and insert an image along with a new page anymore. If anyone is interested its http://www.jalbum.net
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Blah g
Wednesday - October 3, 2007
I got a new blog on the Blogger site. It is http://innman.blogspot.com . It should make things alot easier! And I should be able to post alot more things. I've always wanted to have comments on this site but I never could figure it out. It goes way beyond my expertise. So this blogspot will help things out. I want to hear y'alls comments and opinions. But alas, don't fret! I shall still post things on this site too.
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Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
Wednesday - September 5, 2007
This guy on Youtube is quite the current internet phenomenon. He "painted" a portrait of Bruce Lee with only karate chops! (He dipped his hands in paint and made chopping motions at the canvas.) That's such a funny idea and it even looks good. Watch it for yourself!

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Faux Gogh
Sunday - August 5, 2007
A painting attributed to Van Gogh has recently been deemed a fake. "Head of Man" was attributed to Van Gogh for over 70 years, but has now been demoted. It was just simply misattributed. I guess since he must've not signed it. The painting was dated at 1886. Critics had noticed stylistic differences because this painting's style did not match the style from that period of 1886. The painting was never mentioned in any of his millions of letters to Theo his brother either. As a Van Gogh painting, it had been valued at 21 million dollars. As a non-Van Gogh, it's worth peanuts...
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Lazy bones
Saturday - July 28, 2007
I finally updated the gallery painting section! check it out...
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Show in South Carolina
Tuesday - July 24, 2007
Gee, it's been a long time since I've posted anything. I've been real busy - with a hint of laziness. I'm working on updating the whole site with more work for anyone interested. But in the mean time, I have a show going on in South Carolina at "The Showroom." It's a group show called "Make" that includes 3 or 4 of some really killer printmakers. I guess that means I'm just the rookie noob. The show was curated by none other than Andrew Blanchard, former UM MFA grad printmaker extraordinaire. It looks like a really cool place and show... go to the gallery's website - www.hub-bub.com

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New Work
Sunday - April 29, 2007
Here is a schmorgazborg of new work for anyone interested! Double Decker was yesterday and that went very well. Thanks to everyone who bought something! I'll be posting more later.


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World Record Print
Friday - March 30, 2007
My friend Chris Brady, a graduate student at the University of Mississippi, has just completed a monumental work of art. Over a span of 6 months, he has printed a wood block print (actually masonite) that has just been officially measured at over 281 feet! That qualifies it to be considered "The World's Longest Print" by the Guiness Book of World Records! The print spanned the length of an entire football field. Brady used over 70 masonite blocks back-to-back to print the piece, titled "Type A." The whole concept behind the piece is derived from obsession and compulsion - particularly his. And just to show you how obsessed he was, the entire print is based around one single unbroken line that could very well stretch on for miles. It twists and turns into a labyrinth of confusing congested chaos. Brady wanted to create an outrageous work of art that left viewers questioning the whole purpose of composing something so tedious and monotonous. It is a monument to OCD. He definitely achieved his goal. Because at times, I thought to myself how crazy it was. But he did it! Way to go Chris. He will be displaying the print at The Powerhouse in Oxford, April 9-20. Stop by.


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Cheaters never prosper
Wednesday - March 28, 2007
According to Art New Blog there is a controversy going on right now with Young British Artist, Damien Hirst. He is being accused of stealing an idea from another artist. Hirst just recently had a show in which he used butterfly wings to form a stained glass window. It's a really cool concept and idea. Except, apparently its been done a long time ago by another artist named Lori Precious. It does seem kinda suspicious but hey, everything has been done under the sun. It's hard to know if your idea is original or not. There have been millions of artists come and gone, and if similar minds think the same then the majority of the best ideas have already been thought of...like Picasso said:"Good artists copy. Great artists steal." Not that I'm advocating that behavior or anything...
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Double Decker
Tuesday - February 20, 2007
I got into the Double Decker Arts Festival! Horray! If anyone finds themself around the square in Oxford on April 28th, thats where I'll be. I'll be peddling a wide array of assorted art goods...So bring your deep pockets! My mom got in too. Pay her a visit as well.

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duh Vinci
Saturday - February 3, 2006
A quest has begun for a missing masterpiece by none other than Leonardo da Vinci. The masterpiece is a fresco called "The Battle of Anghiari." (The picture to the left is a master copy drawing by Peter Paul Rubens of "The Battle of Anghiari.") Apparently, critics called it "the greatest work of Renaissance art" ever, of all time, to infinity! But, it was misplaced a few centuries ago. But how does one lose a fresco? It's not like it can walk off...simply because frescos are on walls. However, maybe the wall was torn down or another wall was built over it, or maybe the painting just crumbled like the case with "The Last Supper." Da Vinci used an experimental medium of oil/tempera schmorgazborg for The Last Supper. And not long after "The Last Supper" was painted, it started to crack and crumble. So, I wonder if the same was the case for this missing fresco? Who knows. But this guy named Maurizio Seracini has been on a quest for the missing fresco for 32 years. Thats a long time. He thinks he knows where it is...behind a wall right where it was painted, in Florence's Renaissance town hall! duh! That sounds pretty reasonable/logical. There's speculation that its in a hidden cavity behind a wall. If it's there, it's probably unrecognizable or been destroyed. There's no telling - because afterall someone did foolishly cut a door into "The Last Supper"...Dan Brown eat your heart out.
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Say Hello To My Little Friend!
Saturday - January 27, 2007
I saw on Artnewsblog.com where there's going to be a Dali movie. And Al Pacino is playing Salvador Dali! I bet it's going to be a riot. Dali's life was pretty outrageous. But most of his antics were just for show to draw more attention to his art. Andrew Niccol is supposed to direct it. Niccol is a great storyteller. I loved "Gattaca." I'll be eager to see this movie.

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Everyone's a Critic
Sunday - January 21, 2007
One day I was browsing through an art history book and I realized that "American Gothic" was not in the book! I thought it was odd. The painting is like one of the most important and famous paintings to ever come out of America. (It's also probably the most parodied!)

The book I was looking through was "History of Art" by H.W. Janson. This book has been a staple to art history for decades. Countless universities use it. H.W. Janson was a very important and prestigious art historian/critic. During the 40's and 50's, he taught at the University of Iowa. It turns out that Grant Wood, despite his lack of a college education, also taught at the University of Iowa as an associate professor during this time.

During Wood's controversial tenure, he butted heads with a lot of the professors. One of these professors was of course H.W. Janson. Eventually the two began bickering about everything from Wood's Regionalistic style to the structure of their art department. Janson grew to become Wood's worst critic. After WWII, Janson had had enough and embarked on a smear campaign to destroy Grant Wood's credit. So Janson's tactic was to compare Wood's Regionalistic style to - get this - "Hiter-approved art of National Socialism in Germany during the same decade!" I'd say that was a little drastic. Wood's reputation quickly diminished after that. Janson even refused to acknowledge Wood or even Regionalism in "History of Art" for decades after that. It has just been recently that Wood was incorporated into Janson's book. That's of course because Janson died in the 80s. I'm guessing that Wood and "American Gothic" quickly bounced back from the war of words because his painting has become one of the most famous from American art. I just thought that was an interesting little story about bias in the art education/history world. That was today's art history lesson.
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Unravelling the Da Vinci mystery
Saturday - January 13, 2007
Associated Press
FLORENCE, ROME, Jan. 13. — A real-life Da Vinci mystery, complete with tantalising clues and cunning art sleuths, may be one step closer to a solution, as researchers resume the search for a lost Leonardo masterpiece believed to be concealed behind a wall in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio.
Italian culture minister Mr Francesco Rutelli and officials in the Tuscan city announced this week they had given their go-ahead for renewed exploration in the palace, which houses Florence’s city offices.
There, some researchers believe, a cavity in one of the walls may have preserved for more than four centuries Leonardo’s unfinished mural painting of the “Battle of Anghiari.” “We took this decision to verify conclusively if the cavity exists and if there are traces of the fresco,” Mr Rutelli said during a visit in Florence. The search for the Renaissance masterpiece began about 30 years ago, when art researcher Mr Maurizio Seracini noticed a cryptic message painted on one of the frescoes decorating the “Hall of the 500” once the city’s seat of power.
“Cerca, trova” “seek and you shall find” said the words on a tiny green flag in the “Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley,” one of the military scenes painted by sixteenth century artist Giorgio Vasari.
Between 2002 and 2003, radar and X-ray scans allowed Mr Seracini and his team to find a cavity behind the fresco that is the right size to cocoon Leonardo’s work, which was long thought to have been destroyed when Vasari renovated the hall in the mid-sixteenth century.

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Knitta Please
Tuesday - January 9, 2007
Check these gals out. They call themselves "Knitta." They're a guerrilla knitter tag team. They go around the inner city knitting cozies and sweaters around car antennas, poles, bottles, doorknobs among other things! Its a very clever idea. Similar to spray paint graffiti but more considerate! I want to see them knit socks on a passed-out bum...

Knitting a utility pole, a door handle, and a brick on the Great Wall with a knitted cozy.
http://www.knittaplease.com
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Hal 9000
Monday- January 8, 2007
I finally got a new computer! My old computer had the computing capacity of the ENIAC. So more frequent postings, paintings and ramblings...(instead of just like once a month.)

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I scream, You scream, We all scream for
The Scream
Wednesday - December 27, 2006
Edvard Munch is probably rolling over in his grave right now. I read where "The Scream" (one of a couple) was damaged beyond repair from its recent theft awhile back. Apparently, I think it got some moisture damage to a corner of the painting...ruining it.

However, all is not totally lost. Munch painted 4 versions of "The Scream." I guess he wanted to milk that idea for all that it was worth! And it paid off. But what I don't understand is what was going through his head when he thought it would be alright to paint them on cardboard? That's right- The Screams are painted on cardboard! Probably not the most archival of materials. The Scream is survived by his 3 twin brothers....
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Preggers Mona Lisa
Thursday - September 28, 2006
Using infrared and 3D technology, some Canandian scientists have concluded that Mona Lisa had just given birth to her second son when she posed for Leonardo. The scientists were able to peak through the layers of the painting to discover that Mona Lisa's dress was covered in a thin transparent gauze veil. The veil dress was typical of the kind worn by women or who were pregnant or had given birth during the 16th century Italy. Scholars now think that the "Mona Lisa" was painted to commemorate the birth, which helps them to date the painting more precistely to around 1503.

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Guess this Artist
Thursday - September 21, 2006
This artist created several thousand paintings and drawings during his short artistic career in the early 1900's. For several years he supported himself selling his artwork. But for the most part, he was poor and lived in shelters and ate out of soup kitches. He finally realized he would never make his mark as an artist so he switched careers. He soon took up a career in politics and government. His paintings now go for tens of thousands of dollars and are highly collectible. Who is this artist?

Give up???? Click here for the answer.
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Hotpressed
Friday - September 15, 2006
I had my first mini-review in the Charleston paper! I was briefly mentioned in a paragraph. I'm pretty excited. I had two prints in a show in Charleston. It was the Hotpressed Poster Fest. It featured work from screenprinters and printmakers alike. Here's the link: http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A17475
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Banksy Strikes Again!
Wednesday - September 13, 2006
A life-size statue of a Guantanamo Bay detainee was placed in Disneyland last weekend by the great guerrilla artist Banksy. The figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park. The ride was closed and the figure was later removed after having stayed up for 90 minutes. Banksy is infamous all over Europe- and the world for that matter- for his graffiti and the sabotaging of museums. His work focuses on edgy social commentary. Some of his most famous past pranks were hanging his own paintings in the Met and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, etc. armed with superglue and a trenchcoat. The paintings stayed for months before they were removed!
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From Russia with Love...
Monday - September 11, 2006
In honor of the September 11th attacks, Vladimir Putin has given the US a sculpture by world-renowned Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli on behalf of himself, the Russian people and the artist. Its entitled "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism." The monument will be located along the Bayonne, New Jersey waterfront. It is in view of the Statue of Liberty and Ground Zero. The sculpture is 100 feet tall and 175 tons. It is a tower enclosed by a steel teardrop.

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Noah Takes a Picture of Himself for 6 years
Saturday - September 9, 2006

I saw this on Youtube. It's such a cool idea. This guy named Noah Kalina took a picture of himself for 6 years! It shows the progression of himself from childhood to manhood. I wish I had thought of this...
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Play it by ear
Wednesday - September 6, 2006
I read an interesting article on Reuters. It was talking about how art/paintings can stimulate not only the visual but also the auditory. Paintings can be heard by some people! These people are called Synesthetes. Their senses cross over and one sense will trigger another. Its very interesting- kind of like a sixth sense! I remember hearing about something like this a long time ago. There was a story about some guy who could feel sound. And whenever he went to an orchestra concert he would feel the sound all over his body. Pretty cool. But, anyway, it seems that Kandinsky's paintings evoke alot of sound with these Synesthetes. Kandinsky's abstractions do tend to depict an auditory aesthetic. I bet Duchamp's "Nude Descending A Staircase" sounds like an explosion in a shingle factory... ha! (famous words of Roosevelt)
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Burqua on the Odalisque?
Tuesday - September 5, 2006
Apparently Abu Dhabi is partial to art. The United Arab Emirates is interested in having a branch of the Louvre in their country. Some UAE officials have begun discussing the possibility with representatives from the Louvre. I thought many Arabs hate Western culture as it is. I can only imagine their shock of seeing like a Damien Hirst pickled camel floating in formaldehyde!
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"Scream VI" or "I Remember What You Did Last Summer"
Friday - September 1, 2006
I saw on CNN where Norwegian Police finally recovered "The Scream" and "Madonna" by Edvard Munch. It's been about two years since the thieves busted up in the Oslo Museum- in broad daylight- and snatched them off the wall. The thieves were sentenced to 8 years and $122 million in damages! ha!

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SAA Sale
Thursday - November 9, 2006
I've got some pieces in the SAA Sale in Meek Hall this Friday, November 10. These Lips are one of them thats in the show. I just finished it...The paint is barely dry! Stop by if you have time. Make me rich!

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Pac-Mondrian!
Friday - November 24, 2006
Have you ever looked at Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" paintings and thought to yourself how much they resembled the Pac-Man game? Well this guy thought the same thing and actually made it into a Pac-Man game! It's called "Pac-Mondrian." Its such a funny idea. (I guess if Mondrian is Pac-Man... then Francis Bacon is Mortal Kombat!) Here's the link to play the game...http://pbfb.ca/pac-mondrian/
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Disney and Dali
Monday - November 13, 2006
I wasn't aware of this either but way back in the day Walt Disney actually collaborated with Salvador Dali for a Disney cartoon! This bizarre project was in the works for years. However, it never really got past the storyboards until it was eventually scrapped by Disney because of financial concerns. In 1999, the project resurfaced and Disney's nephew vowed to finish the short film about 50 years later. The 6 minute long film called "Destino" used imagery based on Dali's Surrealist drawings and paintings. I've never seen the whole thing but it looks really interesting. There's some clips of it on Youtube. The project was a weird move for Disney because afterall parents probably aren't going to want their children seeing phallic shaped objects fly across the screen! This was a Disney movie and Dali's typical subject matter wasn't exactly rated G...

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This and That
Friday - October 27, 2006
I finally uploaded some more work...It's a little eclectic! You've seen some of them already. The first paintings are for a series I'm doing. They are mixed media combining, acrylic, silkscreen, collage, spray paint, this and that, anything I can find. The other paintings are studies done in oil. I've been painting alot of fruit lately for practice. I'm trying not to limit myself to just one style - instead I'm doing alot of experimentation. Enjoy!


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Paint a Pollock
Friday - October 27, 2006
This is one of the coolest websites. Now everyone can paint like Pollock! (Minus the barn and the booze) I'm not really sure how they did this...
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
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Sucker-Punched Picasso
Tuesday -October 24, 2006
Casino mogul/art collector Steve Wynn accidentally smacked up Picasso's famous painting "The Dream" recently. Marie-Theresa Walter (Picasso's 21 year old mistress and subject of the painting) was at the bad end of an elbow, when Wynn accidentally elbowed the painting while putting his arm down. He didn't give her a fat lip or anything but he did leave a hole in the painting the size of a silver dollar! Wynn apparently suffers an eye condition that affects his vision. The painting would have been sold for the largest amount ever paid for a painting - a whopping $139 million! I just hope he never head-butts the Mona Lisa.
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Lucy in the Sky with Drawings
Thursday - October 5, 2006
In the 1950's, the US Government did a series of tests on people by giving them doses of LSD. They wanted to study the effects of the hallucinogen. In one test, they gave LSD to an artist and recommended that he draw! As you can guess, the results were pretty hilarious. The doctors supplied the artist with pencils, crayons, charcoal, etc. This is the first drawing...

First drawing is done 20 minutes after the first dose (50ug).

An attending doctor observes - Patient chooses to start drawing with charcoal.

The subject of the experiment reports - 'Condition normal... no effect from the drug yet'.
next drawing >

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Cow in Formaldehyde for Rent
Monday - October 2, 2006
Charles Saatchi is renting out a selection of 600 works from his art collection. The advertising and art collecting giant is loaning artwork from £7,000 a year for five works to £20,000 for 20 works. He's offering work by contemporary artists like Chris Ofili, the Chapman Brothers, Damien Hirst, Stella Vine, Tom Hunter, Gary Hume, and Gavin Turk. As if Saatchi doesn't have enough money as it is. This is just another way for Saatchi to make another buck. As a side note, I'm pretty sure Guiliani won't be renting any of Chris Ofili's art...
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Sell Out
Sunday - August 27, 2006
So it seems that I have sold my soul to mass media... I put some ads on here to try and generate some revenue for the site. Sorry! I'm a sellout. I hope they're not too obnoxious. In the meantime, I'm currently working on some new paintings.
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Saturday - August 12, 2006
Well, after neglecting the site for quite awhile, I finally updated! I added stuff in every section. I also fixed all the bugs in the site.

I got two silkscreen prints into the Hotpressed Poster Exhibit at the Redux Contemporary Art Center! "Perpetual Propaganda Machines" and "We the Peeps" were accepted. I just noticed that the two that were accepted look kinda similar with the eagles....hmm
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Wednesday - July 12, 2006
I just entered a poster competition put on by Redux Contemporary Art Center in South Carolina. I entered three of my silkscreen prints- "The Golden Rule", "We the Peeps" and "Perpetual Propaganda Machines." Hopefully I'll get some in! who knows...
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There's a good show going on right now in Meek Hall Gallery 130. It's the Summer Juried show that was juried by Cynthia Thompson. It will be up until August. I have two paintings in there - "Migratory Paths" and "Automized Metamorphosis." If you get a chance, stop by and check it out!
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Friday - June 18, 2006
Welcome to the new site! I finally got a website up. It has been a long time in the making. There are a few bugs still in the site. Check back frequently as I am updating it. Feel free to browse the Gallery!