Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Models as Friends
Over my 22 years as an artist I have taken a lot of pictures of young women, some to serve as guides for paintings, some to use simply as photographs. I met the two above, the redhead Laura and Hannah with blond dreadlocks while I was having lunch with two Berkshire...
In Fields of Gold
The Field Farm overlooks Mount Greylock and the Hopper. We drove to the Field Farm in Williamstown recently to walk the trails alongside its splendid fields of mown hay. The sun was shining (oh happy day). And we were feeling in harmony with all this open land and the...
MASS MoCA Stages Monumental Show
You'd think that Ledelle Moe's monumental memorial to the murdered and the slain would be a real downer. But it isn't. As you descend the steps onto the exhibition floor in MASS MoCA's biggest gallery, you're confronted by three giant concrete heads lying on the...
Jim Allen’s Monumental Protest Against War
This painting by Jim Allen, heroic in scale and steeped in one of philosophy's conundrums, packs a knockout punch at the Berkshire Museum of Art in North Adams. Called "Not Just Another Pretty Picture," the exhibit was put together by Eric Rudd , the...
The Art of Eroding Memories
Here's the portrait I didn't see in my first visit to Installation Space in North Adams. Photo by Grier Horner. For a week I've been trying to come up with the best one-word description of Robert Maloney's installation at the Installation Space in North Adams. ...
Bold, Beautiful – and Happy
Jesse Tobin McCauley in her studio in the Lichtenstein Center in Pittsfield. Photo by Noel Henebury For Jesse Tobin McCauley her current show at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfield is a sentimental journey. Just six years ago she had showed with Group W...
Portraits of Flowers
This post came to me when I was carrying the garbage can in from the street this morning. Cutting through Babbie's biggest garden, I saw how the early sun was catching a cluster of purple flower flowers. (I'm sorry but I'm as bad at remembering flowers' names as...
More Abstract Photos
Like so many of my abstract photos, this one may have been born in the kitchen sink. There I see a lot of reflections and colors when I do the dishes and the pots and pans.. Or it may have been a photo of something else entirely. I call it Twelve Meter 2. All rights...
Me with My Models
Taking a cue from the name of my blog, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man, I thought I'd show you portraits of the "old man" along with some of the Runway portraits he's painted. I can't remember this woman's name sadly. I found this photo of her (below) in a...
The Split Face Variations
Photos by Grier Horner//All Rights Reserved The faces I paint tend to be pretty conventional. It wasn't that I didn't like them. It's just that I wanted to try something bolder. As my constant in this experiment, I used a painting I'd done in 2012 for my Scarlet...