Lil' Andrea checking out the paintings

These are some pics from the show, courtesy of my sis/photographer extraordinaire, Mika-Celine Shiozawa:

Had my show.  It was a great experience, like no other exhibition I’ve ever had.  It was so great to have it at the Aegean Center, amongst my old professors and fellow colleagues.  Also, my brother Ken and my sister Mika were able to make it, which really meant a lot.  The exhibition felt [...]

I just finished a new painting, Hera and Zeus.  It is another in my series of myth paintings, which I will be exhibiting at the end of July this year.  Zeus, king of the gods on Mt. Olympus and Hera, the most powerful goddess were also brother and sister, children of the titan Kronos. Zeus [...]

Last summer I blogged about how I had barely scratched the surface in the epic project of digitizing my family home videos.  For me last summer, it didn’t work out.  Now, thankfully, my brother has taken over the helm and he is taking care of the massive endeavor to move all of our analog tapes [...]

… and we move the clock up one hour.
At least here in Greece we did.  I think in the States folks moved their clocks up around three weeks ago.
Relevant time differences now: seven hours ahead of New York, eight hours ahead of MN, and still one hour ahead of Paris.
So on this Sunday what did [...]

Often there is a debate in art about technique vs. concept.  Essentially, too academic of too conventional are phrases to imply that an artwork is just a technical piece, while an artwork that is concerned more with a certain idea or meaning is seen as a conceptual piece.
The irony is that in many art schools [...]

Maximilian Kenzo Ansel Wiseman. Born March 8, 2009 at 2pm New York time. He’s 8lbs 6 oz and looks teeny-weeny. I met him a couple of days ago and the kid is a charmer.

As an art teacher, one is constantly looking at other people’s art of course. In order to be as effective and helpful a teacher I can be I have to think critically about what my students should do about their works. When I’m trying to critique a student’s painting, the only way I’m [...]

I have been working on a new painting: Heracles and the Mares of Diomedes.  It is another in a series of paintings based on the twelve labors of Heracles (Hercules) and I’ve already written about two labors I’ve painted already, Heracles and the Nemean Lion and Heracles and the Boar of Erymanthos.  The Mares of [...]