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My paintings are about a painting dialogue I’ve created with Andy Warhol’s work.

I read in the Times that Andy Warhol’s ocean side estate at Montauk, New York was recently sold, so

I made a point of driving out from California to get a feel for the place.

Fifty years ago, Andy was a very busy guy in New York City, he was famous and he was mass producing contemporary art from the images he found in the New York Times.

Montauk wasn’t on Andy’s calendar much. I took a look around and began painting Andy postcards thinking he would have liked that.
My work proposes a dialog between visual artists in a tradition of van Gogh's letters to Emile Bernard; Charlie Russell's letters to Cutapuis, (the Blackfoot sculptor,) and C.G. Jung's, Libor Novis.

 

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DEAR ANDY 2010 Paintings

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Dear Andy 2009 Paintings

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Postcards to Andy Warhol 2007-08.

Dear Andy 100 10x10MelSmothers08a   Dear Andy(Montauk)51 40x40MelSmothers$2400c   Dear Andy 12 24x24MelSmothers$1250c   

 

 

Painting Over an Andy Warhol 2006.

 

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