When I'm not jacking around with internet radio, described elsewhere on this page, I'm exploring the global mess we have inherited in terms of paint and the printed word. I paint sloppy pictures dripping with intrigue. I am self-taught, but prolific and serious about the work. You can eyeball a chunk of the canvas and some of my digital work at THE SCENEWASH PROJECT.
With RADIO SCENEWASH and a MySpace page primped with earbuzz already active here, in this section I've decided to list those long ball painting influences who have inspired and rattled me with rabid enthusiasm. Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Larry Rivers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Man Ray, William Blake, Hieronymous Bosch, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Miro, Freida Kahlo, and yes, Van Gogh, Dali, El Greco, Braque and Picasso. Among my peers, just glance at my friends list for clues tacked to the wall in no particular order; after all, friends act like friends, and artists, well...
Movies
The Lion In Winter (1962), The Wall, Naked Lunch, Total Eclipse (Rimbaud & Verlaine), Pollack, Frida, A Beautiful Mind, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nixon, Patton, Gladiator, Master and Commander, Cinderella Man, Virtuosity, Malcolm X, The Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind, Swing Kids, Basketball Diaries, Rain Man, Little Big Man, Last of the Mohicans, The Graduate, The Fisher King, Gangs of New York, Harold & Maude, Barfly, Times Square, Suburbia, Reservoir Dogs, American Splendor, The Royal Tennebaums, Down By Law, Walk The Line, Ray, Paris, TX, Repo Man, Amadeus, Rob Roy, Frances, Ghandi, Bonnie & Clyde, A Few Good Men, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, The Aviator, Terms Of Endearment, Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, Of Mice & Men, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Blues Brothers, Cat Ballou, The Gunslinger, The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Kelly's Heroes, High Plains Drifter, Hoffa, Chinatown, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barton Fink, The Rose, Alice's Restaurant, Baby Doll, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Bound For Glory, Bugsy, Mad Max, Catch 22, Five Easy Pieces, Dead-in Drive-In, Sid & Nancy, Awakenings, Good Morning Vietnam, 12 Angry Men, Do The Right Thing, Sex, Lies & Videotape, The Big Lebowski, In The Heat Of The Night, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Being There, Videodrome, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Wall Street, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, American Graffitti, Liquid Sky, Jesus Is Magic...
Television
I abstain whenever I muster true liberty of choice. Interferes with just about everything...
Books
What I've read of Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Karl Popper, F.A. Hayek, Friedrich Nietzsche, Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, William Blake, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Blaise Cendrars, Jack London's Martin Eden, T. Harry William's biography of Huey P. Long, Man Ray's autobiography, the Larry Rivers autobiography, Thomas Pynchon's V and Lot 49, the works of Tom Paine, William Gaddis' The Recognitions, William Gass literary critic, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Douglas Coupland's soft works, Jack Kerouac, WS Burroughs, Camille Paglia, TS Eliot, Ginsberg, Celine, Susan Sontag, Charles Bukowski, and yes, I confess that I consider that fitful wad of grossly misappropriated parchment of the ancient Jews, as an important read unless it comes attached to a host of semi-illiterate bible breeches, and in that case, the spirit has spoken, hear it and sulk away, unless of course, you crave THUUUUNDER...
Heroes
I originally listed a few heroes, but you know, I don't really believe in heroes, just individual acts of integrity. Say what you mean, and mean what you say, and honestly, the hero will prevail in each of us. Now how's that for sappy hero worship...
Looking for a few good postmodernist artists and writers to collaborate on a coffeetable-sized 4-color art book...
Got art, need theory? Got theory, need art? Serious enquiries only, contact me, Gabriel Thy, for details.
GABRIEL is slamming to the... Posted at 6:54 PM Jan 14, 2008 view more
About me:
TO ALL BANDS SEEKING MY FRIENDSHIP. Please, rather than FRIEND me here on my painter-poet page, how about banging on over to Radio Scenewash, where I have operated an Internet radio station hosted by Live365 since July 2, 2003...
The RSN link is below, first friend slot. You know the drill. I may get militant about this bit of protocol at some point, but right now, I'm just asking all ROCKERS to respect my own sense of order, and gather at the same annointed place. That way, we all win the war against monstrosities.
I'm a hunter gatherer. I hunt for true reciprocating friendship. On the other hand, I'm rather corruptible seed, so I try to gather all the competing forces together in some roaring attempt to take the fight to the battleground where art and politics beat each other up, and few are they who appear the wiser. That's the primary directive, but for my next trick, I also paint rough angst-driven figurative art, and crank out equally compelling digital work. I have shown these offspring of grim madness in Washington, NYC, Los Angeles, Wheeling, WV, and Cairo, Egypt.
Still bored? Discover or illuminate your own personal disturbances over at the SCENEWASH PROJECT. Keep it slamming, but don't neglect to inspect those Wheeling Wailing Wall snapshots in the picture section of this page.
BECAUSE WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA BY GOD ROCKS!
To impale the stale writer I once thought I was born to be, I published an excruciating volume of poetry in December '05:
You can purchase this 400pg retrospective of powerfully visceral works in soft or hardcover editions at Amazon and other online mega-retailers. And for more GT literary muscle, just hurl yourself into the icy-fanged sarcophagus of yet another of my ripsnorting blogs called TAKING THE AUSPICES.
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Who I'd like to meet: Only the repugnantly honest...
i agree gabriel,,,and i do own her journal, book reprodused copy, of course, but a...mazing, her drawings, sketches,,,meanderings...with colour galour...and amazing poetry. one of her underestimated fields of art, but you probably already know... really her writings to that diego,,,were so romantic, amazing, beautiful...that darn husband...yeah, she shined...
Yeah that's the one. Gets everyone evenly. Staring down if you're pissing. reflecting through the mirror if you're shitting. I thought about turning it in the window towards the mcmansion they built next door and let them look at it for a couple years!
have to admit CA does have a grip right now! Have to go w/what is working. saw the last email about "O". It certainly bothered me, hate to see the unity break down. ! Will be in this weekend!
Hey Gabriel, I like the new desktop 365 app for your music. Sweet! That's a good self-portrait too. I'll post it on the toopine blog with a link to your paintings.
Just saw your message... steamy? You think it's steamy? Well, I've never been accused of that before. It's kinda nice.
How's the knee? Maybe you and Andy should share a nurse! ;^) I still haven't been over to see him and am profoundly guilty over that, but my life is one crazy mix-up right now and my weekends filled to overflowing with drama. I think of him every day though, does that count?
Are you showing in Dupont? Is that what you meant?
yes, running my operations has been getting in the way of running my operations, but it's all good. (not that you asked)...but have not talked w/you in awhile I've been on the go so...hope all is well and you are doing your thing!
Hi Gabriel, I hope it's ok but I invited a couple I know to join me at the Open Studio event. I know it's a public event, I just thought I'd ask. Hope you're doing well!!!! Hugs!
...When to the session of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death¹s dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish¹d sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
they say an artist reaches their artistic best when they are in tune with their inner-self or at least are in great pursuit of it! Taking the assumption that this self-portrait is a probe into oneself if not just a reflection, you are to be congratulated.
we all get to a point where we begin to understand that the remaining journey in the pursuit of art is inward and not outward and if traveled properly can only yield itself universally, something not easy to put one’s finger on!
Rothko knew about this
Van Gogh toyed and chased with it as well!
I look forward to seeing the residuals of your probe for I understand the door that you just have just kicked in!Peace and art my friend!Stevens
