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PENCIL PAPER:  My Talk with Brian Cronin

PENCIL PAPER:
My Talk with Brian Cronin


BC_0080_lrz_web[7]_1.jpg"Brian Cronin: 25 Years and Change"
Retrospective 1983--2008
Casa da Cerca, Center for Contemporary Art
Lisbon, Portugal
(On view through August 30, 2008)


fred4.jpg"Going Over Home: Photographs by Fred Woodward"
401 Projects
401 West Street (at Charles Street), NYC
(On view through August 24, 2008)



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Brian Cronin came up to my office at 4 Times Square late last February--dapper as always--asking if we could do a little interview to be used in the catalog that would accompany an upcoming retrospective in Lisbon of his illustration career.

I borrowed a recorder and a couple of cassettes, and we talked until I ran out of tape.

He was in the very early stages of working toward a fine-art show (also to be shown in Lisbon this October). We talked about the source of his creativity, his early and present influences (Glaser and Bergman), art versus commerce, growing up in a Dublin bed & breakfast, starting over at age 50, racing the clock, and that elusive thing called joy.
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The Peter Tunney Experiment

The Peter Tunney Experiment

"DON'T PANIC"

"EVOLVE"

"THE REAL VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CONSISTS NOT IN SEEING NEW LANDSCAPES BUT IN HAVING NEW EYES"

These are the words and phrases that hit me as I walked down 52nd street. Not because I was deep in thought trying to figure out the solution to all my problems. But because they were there. Large and bold. Painted and silkscreened and collaged together. All inside a storefront, along with a sign that read "Who is Peter Tunney?".
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Mixed Media

Mixed Media

As Art Director of W and in my pursuit to side with the wondrous world of art collecting, I've been keeping note of some stimulating work currently being produced by young artists. One abstract creator I've had my eye on is Carlyle Stewart, whom I met while attending an art auction benefit last May. His mediums vary from collage paintings and photo montages, to Linear and Tonal drawings. … MORE

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