GABRIEL
"DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN"

Male
52 years old
Washington DC
United States



Last Login: 7/4/2008
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GeneralWhen 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.

If you're a pensive bibliophiliac, clutch my book of long poems and short essays, THE SILENT CULL AND OTHER MECHANICAL IDEAS - Collected Poems (1980-2005) available at Amazon. Not for illiterates, or hallmark card freaks. These are not pastoral times.
MusicWith 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...

MoviesThe 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...
TelevisionI abstain whenever I muster true liberty of choice. Interferes with just about everything...
BooksWhat 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...
HeroesI 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...
Groups: WHEELING, WV!!!Art for Artists™PATRICE STUDIO-BLOG

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     GABRIEL's Details
Status:Married
Here for:Networking, Friends
Hometown:Washington, DC
Zodiac Sign:Libra
Occupation:Multimedia artist

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Publishing - Art - Other
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.

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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:

THE SILENT CULL AND OTHER MECHANICAL IDEAS
(Collected Poems 1980-2005)


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.



Who I'd like to meet:
Only the repugnantly honest...



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Meredith





Jun 22 2008 3:44 PM

Have you ever known Me to be shy? I'll shoot you a message soon.Love, your sis
Kirsten





Jun 11 2008 5:54 PM

We haven't spoken for a while... how are you? How's Sue?
Art Whino





May 12 2008 7:16 PM

Mark your Calendars

May 22nd and 23rd Concrete Alchemy comes to Art Whino

May 30th Mary Spring

Hope to see you at the shows!
Amelia Munster





Apr 18 2008 12:25 PM

Hee-low :)
Stevens Jay Carter





Mar 27 2008 4:43 PM

GT:

what's happening...........!

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!

peace and art
Kirsten





Mar 12 2008 8:01 AM

So sorry to hear you've not been feeling well. Sending all my good wishes.
Evil Avie





Mar 11 2008 9:43 PM

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!
Cate Rangel





Mar 7 2008 6:31 AM

Thanks so much for your request!
Tami-Lu





Feb 26 2008 8:35 AM

Nice work! Thanks for the add!
Evil Avie





Feb 25 2008 5:34 PM

SONNET
© William Shakespeare

...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.
Jamie Holiday





Feb 25 2008 12:34 PM

Hope you had some fun ,on the 22nd !sendin u pix this week.
paint on brother
Stevens Jay Carter





Feb 15 2008 5:02 PM

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
Meredith





Feb 15 2008 12:01 PM

i love this picture
Meredith





Feb 15 2008 6:05 AM

I like your new artwerk. How was "your" valentines? Mine are the ages of 10 and 2.
Evil Avie





Feb 7 2008 12:02 AM

My personal Poet, I miss you and Sue....when can I see you again? xoxoxoxoxoxoox ~Avie
Stevens Jay Carter





Jan 31 2008 2:46 PM

not sure what was up ealier...I could not get thru to your site
Liberty Sue





Jan 23 2008 7:18 AM

Love you, miss you, can't wait to see you tonight!
Demented D





Jan 14 2008 2:54 PM

Thanks for the add, and being such a great host. I had a blast. Hope we can do it again sometime.
METAL!!
Evil Avie





Jan 14 2008 9:31 AM

Gabriel!

Thanks to you and Sue....such gracious hosts! That was a rockin' good time I tell ya!!!!!

I would love to hang out with you two again very soon...hell...you live so close!

Love and Spankings,

~Avie
Kirsten





Jan 9 2008 8:12 AM

Sorry to have been so out of touch... mucho drama going on.

Are you heading to 9:30 this weekend? I am trying to get there.
Jen





Jan 3 2008 12:06 AM

happy new year!
P.e. Harper





Dec 24 2007 5:12 PM

Big Hugs to you and Liberty Sue. Merry Christmas! See you soon.
Marcy





Dec 21 2007 8:07 AM

Wishing you and Sue a super fantastic Christmas!!!!!! Hope to see your gorgeous faces in 2008!! Love!
P.e. Harper





Dec 18 2007 2:01 PM