I am currently showing 15 paintings at 1 shot coffee in Northern Liberties. With 3 of the paintings, I am donating 50 dollars of the purchase prices to related community organizations. I am intrigued with the Painting Activist’s fantastically pragmatic approach. I’m addressing social issues utilizing painting as my medium of communication. Much like a…

Is this what I keep mentioning as the elusive quality that I chase in paintings of late? This was a phrase popularized by C. Greenberg, primarily in regards to the flattening of painting that occurred throughout modernism. I read this as an acknowledgement of paintings form as the medium(/meaning?) was being deconstructed: a self awareness.…

So. In case I haven’t mentioned it, I have started hearing back from grad schools. The first three that came in were rejections. The fourth, was a request that I show up for an interview. I return to writing as I prepare for that interview, and I aim to get my words together for that…

Idea!! I was listening to this american life and they mentioned a way to fight back, and that is to find ways to waste the person’s time on the other end. Send them on a wild goose chase if you will, while knowing that it is a scam. How do we waste their time so…

Sugarhouse and the Divide Originally uploaded by 730N This painting is currently up for the remainder of the week at the Highwire Gallery in Philadelphia. Sugarhouse Casino is a project slated to be built along the Delaware Riv er in Philadelphia, just north of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. The site was a former Sugar Mill,…

Nine Mile Run Restoration Originally uploaded by 730N Samantha says my work is all about relationships. I tend to agree. Hawthorne (Hawthorne on Painting) speaks of painting as spots of color. “The beauty of a picture results from the way spots of color are brought together.” This describes the mechanics of my painting. I simply…

It’s 4:14. (Whey Fo Me) Originally uploaded by 730N So the blog writing did stall. Apologies for that! I did get lost, but thankfully it was in the studio. I fell out of contact for a little while I was painting a new picture for my first official show in Philadelphia. It was a group…

sycamore tree Originally uploaded by 730N Hi. In the next few weeks I plan to write in a brainstorming fashion about particular paintings done in the last 2 years that I find to be important. Any feedback, positive or negative is welcome. Haters, however, can expect to be decimated by my swords of logic and…