This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Today's photo is of artist Jay Rolfe assembling one of his multi-piece 3DSSC (3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas) stretcher frameworks for a forthcoming 3DSSC painting.
Today's photo is of artist Jay Rolfe working on the 3-D part of the stretcher framework for one of his 3DSSC (3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas) paintings. It takes quite a long time to design, measure, cut and assemble a stretcher framework for a 3DSSC painting.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Today's photo is artist Jay Rolfe creating a stretcher framework for one of his 3DSSC (3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas) paintings. Jay Rolfe learned his carpentry skills years ago when he and his wife gutted an old farmhouse down to the floor joists and rafters, and totally rebuilt the house.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
The weather finally turned warm enough to work outside comfortable. Spring is officially here, although it hasn't felt like it many days. Artist Jay Rolfe is cutting wood for stretcher frameworks for several new 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas (3DSSC) paintings. The photo of the day is of Jay Rolfe cutting wood for the stretcher frameworks with a miter power saw.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Today's photo of the day is a photo taken recently by artist Jay Rolfe of an approaching storm which is darkening the horizon.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Henri Matisse painted "The Pink Nude" more formally known as "Large Reclining Nude" in 1935. This compares with 1907 for "The Blue Nude" which is shown in my post yesterday. Both of these nudes are shown in the same gallery of the Baltimore Museum of Art. The collector and donor, Etta Cone, displayed both of them in the same room of her Baltimore apartment on opposite walls.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
On Friday artist Jay Rolfe visited the Baltimore Museum of Art again. They have one of the best collections in the world of Matisse paintings, part of the Cone collection. One painting I missed on my previous visit because it was out on loan was the famous "Blue Nude" by Henri Matisse. It's a large painting done in 1907. Imagine a very proper female physician from Baltimore buying that at that time.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/.
Artist Jay Rolfe mounted one of his Peace symbol paintings onto a great bar table base. Now it is art that can be used daily! Today's photos of the day are of the painted wood table top and of the table from the side.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's 
signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses his melancholic artistic temperament to passionately explore contemporary issues such as the nature of existence, disorientation, alienation, loneliness, unrequited love, complex relationships, conflict, unrest, war, greed, unfulfilled dreams, yearning, and boredom.
Artist Jay Rolfe is seeing Dale Chihuly work everywhere. On Friday evening we was at the Delaware Art Museum to see the Pre-Raphael Brotherhood paintings and saw the Chihuly "Persian Window" installation over the entrance. It was strikingly beautiful at night. Today's photo of the day is the night photo of Chihuly's "Persian Window" made for the museum in 1999-2000 and expanded for the new entrance in 2005. Here's a link to one of the museum's daytime photos of the same work. http://www.delart.org/view/collections/chihuly_interior.html And a link to a detail of the work. http://www.delart.org/view/collections/chihuly_detail_04.html
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses his melancholic artistic temperament to passionately explore contemporary issues such as the nature of existence, disorientation, alienation, loneliness, unrequited love, complex relationships, conflict, unrest, war, greed, unfulfilled dreams, yearning, and boredom.
Today's photo of the day is a striking photo by Jay Rolfe taken in the early light of wispy clouds, blue sky, bare trees, and frost on the grass.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses his melancholic artistic temperament to passionately explore contemporary issues such as the nature of existence, disorientation, alienation, loneliness, unrequited love, complex relationships, conflict, unrest, war, greed, unfulfilled dreams, yearning, and boredom.
On Sunday artist Jay Rolfe attended the Philadelphia Flower Show as the guest of his mother-in-law's life partner along with a group of family. Imagine his surprise to find artist Dale Chihuly's Steinway Imperial piano prominently displayed inside the entrance to the show. Chihuly is most known for his glass art - think the Bellagio - including many beautiful chandeliers. You can see other works on his website, www.chihuly.com/. The photo of the day is artist Jay Rolfe standing in front of Dale Chihuly's Steinway Imperial piano on Sunday March 2, 2008. Jay Rolfe is holding 2 dozen roses he bought for his wife.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses his melancholic artistic temperament to passionately explore contemporary issues such as the nature of existence, disorientation, alienation, loneliness, unrequited love, complex relationships, conflict, unrest, war, greed, unfulfilled dreams, yearning, and boredom.
This is the latest step of artist Jay Rolfe on his Journey From Starving Artist To 21st Century Picasso. You may view some of Jay Rolfe's signature style, his innovative 3-D Shaped Stretched Canvas paintings, on his website at http://www.3dssc.com/. Artist Jay Rolfe uses his melancholic artistic temperament to passionately explore contemporary issues such as the nature of existence, disorientation, alienation, loneliness, unrequited love, complex relationships, conflict, unrest, war, greed, unfulfilled dreams, yearning, and boredom.
Last Friday, Leap Day, February 29, artist Jay Rolfe attended the opening reception for "n The Beginning, Exploring Origins In Contemporary Art," part of the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Humanities Forum (which also sponsored the Kiki Smith lecture I attended). The contemporary work of about 33 artists was displayed, all addressing in some way origins of something - life, the universe, personal history, etc. Most of the works were small by my standards. The links to origins of many of the works was hard to discern, but it was an interesting exhibit.
