Showing posts with label Abstract oil painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abstract oil painting. Show all posts

Friday, December 2, 2011

New Improvisations

I have completed 5 improvisations for the kickstarter rewards this week.  I should be able to keep up with the work load and complete the rest of the kickstarter rewards by the third or fourth week in december.  I will mail them all out as soon as the wok is dry.

Minneapolis 9 "Improvisation a"
12 x 24, oil on canvas

Minneapolis 10 "Improvisation b"
12 x 24, oil on canvas

Minneapolis 11 "Improvisation c"
12 x 24, oil on canvas

Minneapolis 12 "Improvisation d"
12 x 24, oil on canvas

Minneapolis 12 "Improvisation e"
12 x 24, oil on canvas


I better get back into the studio and off the computer if intend to finish my work.
Thanks for thumbing through my blog...
...More to come soon.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Minneapolis 8 "Flashlight"

Another oil painting completed and ready to varnish.  This one was a complicated composition that hopefully has a simple appearance.  This work will be on exhibit in NYC in the spring.

Minneapolis 8 "Flashlight"
18 x 36, oil on linen


Thanks for thumbing through my blog...
...More to come soon.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Minneapolis #6 is complete.

I just completed another of my Minneapolis works.  Enjoy it.

Minneapolis 6
24 x 12, oil on linen


Check back later...
...the next Minneapolis painting is on the way.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

BitTorrent 12 "The Peloponnesian War"

I just finished another painting in the BitTorrent series.  It is my philosophical representation of the "Peloponnesian War" and how I see both sides of the massive conflict to be.  I have used a triadic harmony in opposite of what I normally work with in color.

I am currently working on my compositional ideas for a series of works on "The Peloponnesian War" that will focus on the individuals involved in the war.

BitTorent 12 "The Peloponnesian War" 
24 x 36, oil on linen

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...More to come soon.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Minneapolis 5 "Contrast of Temperature"

Hi all,

I just finished another painting in the Minneapolis series.  It's a fun piece based on warm colors and the contrast between them.  This work will be on exhibit at Regla De Oro Gallery in the spring of 2012.

I have been having fun with simple ideas on smaller canvases in preparation for my last BitTorrent oil painting.  I hope you enjoy this.

Minneapolis 5 "Contrast of Temperature"
12 x 24, Oil on linen


Thanks for thumbing through my blog...
...More to come soon.


Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Sneak Peak for you

Here is a sneak peak of a portion of the exhibit opening on the 9th this month.  


I will have more for you to see tomorrow night, and until then see you all at the Gallery at 7pm friday the 7th.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Studio #8 - 2509 Pleasant Avenue South

Since 1997 I have always lived in my studio.  Now that I live with my fiance Athena, and we intend to have a baby someday I cant live in the toxic chemical environment of an art studio.
So I converted our garage into my new Art studio!!!

My 8th studio in Minneapolis is a garage, yep people my wife to be needs something better than living in a studio, so we are renting a house (the roommates downstairs suck).  It was pretty cool the two of us, our two dogs and 1 cat all living in a working art studio that was only 800 or so square feet.  

here are some of my old studios over the years...
...you have seen all of these in my past posts on my studios.


This is my new studio...
...right to left panorama.
I have already been fairly productive here, except for the time I needed to recover from the accident.  I finished the final touches to the studio a few weeks ago.  Funny as it is, I will be moving on in three months to a new larger house with a larger and better studio.


Thanks for reading...
...check back with me soon; I promise there are interesting things to come.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Artwork of the month: Kandinsky's "Composition #8"

I discovered Wassily Kandinsky in 1996.  It was a portion in my life when I learning how to oil paint.  My work at the time were expressionistic abstract oils, all improvisational and without any preconceived thought.  After Kandinsky I began my work toward compositional oil painting.  Compositional oil painting is not simply working with the surface area of an oil painting, it is a philosophy.

I have traveled to the Guggenheim art Museum in New York seven times now simply to view this one oil painting.  Composition #8 is Kandinsky's peak, it was his best and although his work continued to progress ever forward conceptually, he was never able to reach that height again.

Wassily Kandinsky
Russian, 1866-1914
"Composition #8"
1923, oil on canvas

From this digital picture the lines look hard and solidly defined.  Standing in front of this you can see that they are also delicate and completed the first time the brush hit canvas.  Composition #8 is a treasured work of art and one that I will go spend some time with again very soon.


I should be painting instead of blogging...
...but you are reading so I keep writing.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

My favorite picture from an exhibit.

This image is from the art major opening night.  The exhibit lasted 2 months, it was fun and i was able to acquire some commissions.

This is my favorite picture from opening night.


Thanks for checking in...
...more to come soon.

Friday, December 14, 2007

"Texture Campaign" series of paintings

This series of paintings was created between 2000 -2007 and there is a good story behind it all.  the majority of the works were early on, and only a few of the later ones were in the 2005 - 2007 years.

I exhibited these paintings for the first time at a gallery called "di Stilo" Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  It was a group exhibit that I curated titled "Priority Mail" with 20 artists.  On opening night we had well over 2,000 people in to see the show.  Opening night was a great success.  
Then it all went wrong.  Over the next few weeks, artists that the gallery owner had worked with in the past started showing up demanding money, their work, or a chance to scream at anyone involved with the gallery.  Then the owner of the gallery sold our work and kept the money, changed the locks and did his best to defame our character publicly to make himself look like a victim just as he had done to many artists before us. 

that sucked...
...then a few years later a buddy of mine told me to check out a website link ultrawiredsex.com from some net porn.  I took a look and wow, I found my paintings.  So my paintings have been in porn.
One of my many stolen works, and a porn-star, oh ya.

funny thing is...
...I think I know some of these girls and I might have actually just gave them away while I was not quite in my right mind.  Who can truly remember those days.



Artist statement

This series seeks to interpret the narrative of the mental state of those involved in war, either as civilians or soldiers.  The expressive nature of each piece dictates a moment of thought and a pictorial representation of their titles.  Although the association of color, composition and surface combined with the context of direct word association is used to express each mental state, these works are a collective representation of a single mental state.  Each painting leads to the next and are to be read like a book, in hopes of initiating a catharsis and understanding of emotional suffering during and after a war.


Adam M. Considine 2004


Texture Campaign 1 "Chrome parade of the Workers" 
oil and chrome on canvas
70" x 30"

Texture Campaign 2 "I Don't" 
oil and chrome on canvas
24" x 32" 


Texture Campaign 3 "Logical Conclusion"  
oil on canvas
30" x 70"

Texture Campaign 4 "Eye on You"  
oil on canvas
30" x 15"

Texture Campaign 5 "The Homeland A&B" 
oil on canvas
45" x 85"

Texture Campaign 6 "Searching for a Dialysis Machine" 
oil on canvas
HUGE!!!

Texture Campaign 7 "The Refuges Landscape a" 
oil on canvas
36" x 36" 

Texture Campaign 8 "The Refuges Landscape b" 
oil on canvas
36" x 36"

Texture Campaign 9 "The Best of us Just Died"  
oil on canvas
20" x 60"

Texture Campaign 10 "Secrets" 
oil on canvas
36" x 48"

Texture Campaign 11 "Ruth"
oil on canvas
74" x 44" 

Texture Campaign 12 "Baseball with Ra a" 
oil and gold leaf on canvas
70" x 30" 

Texture Campaign 13 "Baseball with Ra b" 
oil and gold leaf on canvas
70" x 15" 

Texture Campaign 14 "Baseball with Ra c" 
oil and gold leaf on canvas
9.5" x 7.5"

Texture Campaign 15 "Baseball with Ra d"  
oil and gold leaf on canvas 
15" x 10"

Texture Campaign 16 "Valued Customer a" 
oil and gold leaf on canvas
60" x 48" 

Texture Campaign 17 "Valued Customer b" 
oil on canvas
48" x ?" 

Texture Campaign 18 "the 1980's" 
oil and polychrome on linen
36" x 24" 

Texture Study a 
oil on canvas
12" x 12" 

Texture Study b  
oil on canvas
24" x 48"

Texture Study c  
oil on canvas
20" x 60"

Texture Study d 
oil on canvas
22" x 18"

Texture Study e 
oil and chrome on canvas
11" x 5" 

Texture Study f 
oil on canvas
30" x 15" 

Texture study g 
oil on canvas
9" x 24" 

Texture Study h 
oil on canvas
11" x 8" 

Texture Study i 
oil on canvas
16" x 32" 

Texture Study j 
oil on canvas
32" x 22" 

Texture Study k 
oil on canvas
24" x 48"