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Recent Drawings

All art work is available through Monkdogz Urban Art.
Please contact Robert Hogge or Marina Hadley for prices and details.

Monkdogz Urban Art
547 West 27th Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10001

GALLERY PHONE:  212 216-0030
GALLERY WEBSITE: 
www.monkdogz.com

WCBS-TV PROFILE: http://wcbstv.com/video/?id=102204@wcbs.dayport.com


BAREBRUSH WEBSITE:
http://www.barebrush.com/Artists/ALB109e.html

original photo taken by Kelly Kazemier


"A [drawing] is a series of marks joined together to form an object or work over which our eyes may freely roam."

Pierre Bonnard


STUDY 48 (NARCISSUS NO. 3)

ABOUT MY WORK:

              I craft drawings.  This is a conscious choice, as is the size of my work: Few are larger than 20 x 30 inches; many are smaller. My authentic self as an artist is a poet at heart; I speak best in smaller, succinct, compressed forms on basic paper with basic tools like pencils, crayons, and colored ink pens.  I am creating for the eye that wants to examine a cross section or explore a visual poem, even if that route puts me against popular trends.  I don’t worry about trends; I am more concerned about being honest.

            The majority of my work is a response to specific events, dreams, or emotional states using a deliberately chosen "alphabet" of shapes, colors, and designs.  Geometric forms--especially circles, rectangles, and triangles--spermatozoic shapes, handwriting strokes, etching marks made with knives and pencils, smudges created with erasers, along with a bold color palette form my basic language.  I use crayons, pencils, and pens because of their simple immediacy and because they form an autobiographical link straight back to my childhood.  Thus my art and the tools used to make that art are my fingerprint, my retina scan, my DNA signature.

            Each drawing is a narrative, a unique piece that tells the viewer something about me as well as the object or event being explored, whether it's a performer at Carnegie Hall, a song, a piece of classical music, a nightmare, or an hour of evening meditation.

GOLDBERG 4
STUDY 46 (NARCISSUS NO. 1)
STUDY 48 (NARCISSUS NO. 3)
GOLDBERG 1
GOLDBERG 2
GOLDBERG 3 (LOUSSIER)
STUDY 38
STUDY 32
STUDY 16
STUDY 34
STUDY 35
STUDY 18
8x10x8xVARIABLExNIELSEN SYMPHONY NO. 5
3x16xNIELSEN SYMPHONY NO.6 "Sinfonia Semplice"
12x7x56xNIELSEN SYMPHONY NO. 1
STUDY 27
STUDY 28
STUDY 29
4x5xNIELSEN SYMPHONY NO. 4 "The Inextinguishable"
5x7x15xNIELSEN SYMPHONY NO.3 "SINFONIA ESPANSIVA"
STUDY 25 (SUNSET CHAKRA)
STUDY 13
STUDY 30
YELLOW NIKOLA
5x10x7xNIELSEN SYMPHONY NO. 2
TESLA CUBED
STUDY 9
BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO ONE
BEETOVEN PIANO CONCERTO TWO
BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO THREE
BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO FOUR
BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO FIVE
STUDY 10
SANJAY: CODA
SANJAY: THEME
STUDY 8 (HARLEQUIN)
COPPERAS POND
ELEGY IN 4 MOVEMENTS
IN THIS DREAM . . .
MAGIC WATERS
MITSUKO UCHIDA
ONLY 24
ORACLE
SWIMMER
TECH EULOGY 2
THOUGH MY WINDOW
VALHALLA MACHINE
TUMBLING DOWN
LAKE PLACID, SEPTEMBER
MT. JO
DETENTE
JOE
MY DREAMS ARE . . .
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
IN MY DREAMS, I FREE MYSELF
AND THEN IN MY FRESHMAN YEAR . . .
THE VIBRANT CRYSTAL BALL
     
TECH EULOGY
AQUA
FLYIN'
GOLDBERG
GROWL
MADJESKO MAKES THE MET
NEBULAS
OEDIPUS: THE MORNING AFTER
ACADIA AUTUMN
CARNEGIE CONCERT
   

CONTACT: 
thierfew@dowling.edu


CONTACT:  thierfew@dowling.edu