art with alex---yellow pages video

dec 1

happy Dec! this is my favorite month because it contains my birthday and Christmas! I share a birthday with keith richards....

mural

I am working on a second mural now. It is nice not painting on a ceiling. (It feels like a walk in the park comparatively.) Gearing up for my flight on Tuesday---- it is going to be so nice to get out of my studio and breathe a bit. I am really looking at my trip as a working vacation as I have a lot to get done but I will take a beach break to make some watercolors.

good evening

I worked on a second mural today and I shipped a piece of glass art to Miami. Painting on a wall is like a walk in the park compared to painting a ceiling mural. I will load up new stuff soon.

alex

Gaudi's Cube

The mind of gardega was never comfortable in the square cubicle of corporate life. I tried as a youth but my brain would sabotage me back to the street with my paintbrushes. I decided the problem was that my brain needs to be surrounded by the soft and smooth and not hard edged right- angle corners of the grid. I think if they made cubicles in organic- art nouveau inspired shapes I would sit in them without panic attacks. I respect people who can do it and there is art in everything including banking and real estate----But there is no art in Kmart.

premontion of civil war

I bought this picture/poster from the Philadelphia Museum when I went to see the Dali retrospective there. It was a life changing show and I just got my picture framed so I am most happy. I will try to give a discussion on video about this masterwork soon. The blues in it are amazing in person...

annie nomous

Dear annie,

please give me a link yo your blog so that I will be able to give you some true Dalinian feedback on your intellectual genius or inhehrent lack thereof! I am sure it is a ground breaking intellectual stew of the highest order that rises above the average commercial rif raf that litter the information super-highway. I am sure there is much risk taking and putting of ones self into your work and that it not some bland and souless commercial tripe. now back to the gardega show...

friday

I was able to pick up all my original yellow page cover paintings yesterday. There were some missing but I got back most of them. I will put up for sale this weekend. Today I start a new mural and somehow I have to find a way to finish one more glass piece before I leave for miami. I am really down to the wire. I will try to put up a bunch of work for sale before I head south.

art with alex--- horseshoe crab video

here is a link to me discussing my favorite creature..there is some audio drop off in the end----I will try to fix.


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In Japan, the horseshoe crab (Kabutogani) has long been legendary. In ages past brave warriors who honorably sacrificed their lives in battle were said to be reborn as horseshoe crabs, their shells samurai helmets, eternally crossing the bottom of the sea. On brush-painted rice paper screens, through calligraphic versions of haiku, their attributes were succinctly sung. Yet here, where the Delaware Bay and its 140 miles of uninterrupted beaches remain the horseshoe crab's central habitat and breeding grounds, Limulus polyphemus, the species that lives in Atlantic coastal waters, rarely appears in literature or art.

for your consideration

Velásquez

Goya

Picasso

Dali

Gardega!!

gardega

VIVA GARDEGA!

photo credit

eggs photographed by chris appoldt

greenish blue?

stumped.

video journal november 29th

here is a video update for today.

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schedule

I have to make 0ne more glass piece today and ship it tomorrow (last minute) to Miami...I have to paint another mural before I leave on Dec. fourth and that will require me to work Friday, Saturday and Sunday and Monday. Today I will etch a new glass woman and then I have to visit the yellow pages to talk about painting the Statue of liberty for the NYC cover. I have a few watercolors to upload to ebay tonight.

bowery ballroom

On dec 20th I will have a piece of surrealist animation displayed behind the band "the knockout drops" at the bowery ballroom. The animation was already featured in their off-broadway show that ran for an extended run at the Paradise theater in NYC. They are a great band and we recorded some voice work for the new animation last night. I will put a link to the animation up when it is done... Anyone who wants to go that night please email me!

more eggs of genius!

eggs of genius

A Fabergé egg just sold for 18.5 million. A Gardega "Hannity Egg" is for sale on ebay for considerably less! Eggs were symbolic of the resurrection in the Renaissance--- The Fabergé has a 24k golden yolk, the Gardega egg has the golden yolk of innovative genius. The gardega egg was featured in Page Six ,the Fabergé, NYET!


ebay link!

ebay store

art was shipped out this morning to all bidders who won artwork.

good morning america

I woke up at 5am today as I have to get a lot done. I have to go back to the mural job to talk about new work and later I have to layout a new glass piece for miami show. Thanks to the winning bidders on my ebay store--- I will ship those pieces today as well. I will post more of my mural studies later and some new video as well.

quote of the day

my friend Rebecca sent me this wisdom today. I sometimes worry that I have lost the plot but I like the plot I have found in its place...

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us
believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of
innocent pride, and the man of genius and the
aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics
because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of
and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the
crowd.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

last supper photograph

my brother took this photo for me recently.

comments

I made it easy to leave comments on right side of page. I always appreciate feedback as it helps me to keep on keeping on. please leave your home state with comment.

big brother

ebay store auction

there is still one hour to bid on this watercolor in my ebay store ( link is below my photo to the right...)

art with alex

Here I give a small video discourse on one of my older works I painted in 1999. "the sad-eyed priest of the lowlands."


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ophelia video

Here is a video of my latest glass piece from my Ophelia Suite. This piece is going to be one of two Ophelia glass pieces in my miami show.


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happy tuesday

I may be in brooklyn later today. This morning I will be in the UPS store shipping art to miami. I am very happy with the prospect of using video to show the process of art and I am getting better at understanding the techy process of the whole thing. Soon I may become a modern artiste and spend my time videotaping buttered toast for four hours as it is easier than actually painting or drawing.

mural

finally got a professional shot done of mural.

alex


photo by nanci nigro

live painting--family and the fishing net

Here is a video of me painting a test painting to check the video set up etc. The painting is not my best but it works.... I had a guest on the way over and I was painting with the intention of this merely being a practice run. It will take some getting used to have the camera eye watching me paint. (You think we would be used to big brother at this point...)

memories crash on tireless waves....

music by peter gabriel

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new photos

FINALLY, SOME GOOD PHOTOS!

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for ebay store click link below.


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you tube video

I uploaded a video sweep of the mural I painted on the ceiling of a wine cellar. It is pretty low res and I will redo it soon but I am learning, at least you can see the scale etc...

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happy monday

I woke up this morning and I looked up and my ceiling was all white and I had a split second of panic thinking I wasn't finished with my mural yet, It was a strange fear. I bought a video camera and have been practicing filming the process of making art. I am learning to edit the videos as well so I will put some online soon after I am comfortable with the technology. I will be in brooklyn today making glass art for miami in a last minute effort to get more work down there in time for show. I have picked up more mural work that will not require ceiling work. I am really excited about the possibility of filming some technique and art process and should have some videos up by friday. I was painting watercolors yesterday to this peter gabriel song and filming the process. I am not happy with the results yet but I will get the hang of it all soon.


"The Family And The Fishing Net"

Suffocated by mirrors, stained by dreams
Her honey belly pulls the seams
Curves are still upon the hinge
Pale zeros tinge the tiger skin

Moist as grass, ripe and heavy as the night
The sponge is full, well out of sight
All around the conversations
Icing on the warm flesh cake

Light creeps through her secret tunnels
Sucked into the open spaces
Burning out in sudden flashes
Draining blood from well-fed faces

Desires form in subtle whispers
Flex the muscles in denial
Up and down its pristine cage
So the music, so the trial

Vows of sacrifice, headless chickens
Dance in circles, they the blessed
Man and wife, undressed by all
Their grafted trunks in heat possessed

Even as the soft skins tingle
They mingle with the homeless mother
Who loves the day but lives another
That once was hers

The worried father, long lost lover
Brushes ashes with his broom
Rehearses jokes to fly and hover
Bursting over the bride and groom

And the talk goes on

Memories crash on tireless waves
The lifeguards whom the winter saves

Silence falls the guillotine
All the doors are shut
Nervous hands grip tight the knife
In the darkness, till the cake is cut
Passed around, in little pieces
The body and the flesh
The family and the fishing-net
And another in the mesh

The body and the flesh

ebay store

just a reminder that my ebay store is open again I will add more work later today. There is a link to it below my photo.

happy sunday

I will try to get about 8 hrs with the sketchbook today. I will post work as I go.

alex