Inner Workings

Always new...

2009-11-25T17:51:35-05:00

Recently, I saw an interview with Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodovar on Charlie Rose. When asked about the experience of making movies, Penelope talked about the anxiety she feels at the start of each project. She called it being addicted to the feeling of being new, and described it as...

A Word from the Inner Workings PR Dept...

2009-11-06T16:06:03-05:00

(November 6, 2009, New York, NY) Inner Workings, the AWESOME creativity blog, in conjunction with the AWESOME girlband collective (Heather Cox, Beth Dary, Susan Jennings, Christy Speakman & Katarina Wong), is pleased to announce the launch of The Art Sandbox (www.artsandbox.posterous.com), an AWESOME blog documenting our innovative experiment in collective...

In memory of my father...

2009-11-05T08:00:00-05:00

Friends, You may have noticed that I've not posted anything to this site in several months. I've had such plans! I was going to post some wonderful images from Portugal in June - the tilework is amazing, the beaches gorgeous and the food! Ah, the food... But sadly, very sadly,...

My Unexpectedly Most Awesome Day EVER!

2009-05-21T19:33:45-04:00

Don't you just love it when your day starts off well enough but somehow the gods decide you deserve a good surprise and the day goes into AWESOME OVERDRIVE? I'm definitely having one of those great days. First, it's just a stunning day -- upper 70s, sunny, clear-skies. I started...

Lila! You Got Me on My Knees

2009-05-15T18:54:07-04:00

A few weeks ago I went to a dinner party where the conversation turned to Vedic and Buddhist philosophies -- you know, the regular cocktail chit-chat. ANYway, my friend Robin brought up the Vedic concept of “lila” (pronounced lee-la). Lila is a sanskrit terms that means “play,” and it is...

Is It Done? May Edition

2009-05-03T22:14:45-04:00

Welcome to the next installment of “Is It Done?” where I get to show you something I’ve been working on and think might be finished. I'm not sure what I'll be calling it, so it remains in the "untitled" realm until then. It’s a large watercolor and sumi ink painting...

At My Most Immortal*

2009-04-03T16:45:55-04:00

For the past few weeks I've been busy painting fur. Lots of R&D time followed by days and days of mundanely painting away. Nothing particularly exotic, just strips of black mink-like fur encircling, piercing and framing a large smoke form. (Don’t ask, just go with it.) It's an extremely boring...

iBay, uBay ...

2009-03-20T18:02:05-04:00

Here's a sad confession: the first thing I do when I wake up is reach for my iPhone to find out 1) what the weather's like; therefore 2) what I'll wear; 3) check personal email; 4) work email - just to get a jumpstart on the workday; 5) twitter...and now,...

The "Day Job" - Or, Would You Like Fries with That Painting?

2009-03-11T17:27:51-04:00

I’ve been thinking about the recent Holland Cotter article in the New York Times called, “The Boom Is Over. Long Live the Art!.“ It’s an interesting look at how past down markets have creatively-fueled artists by allowing them a freedom that being tied to the marketplace may not. Frankly, my...

From the Shameless Marketing Department

2009-03-06T19:33:09-05:00

OPENING RECEPTION IS TONIGHT!! SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 6:30 - 8:30pm KENISE BARNES FINE ART, LARCHMONT, NY. I promise a more substantive post soon, but I've been (happily) consumed with co-organizing an exhibition at Kenise Barnes Fine Art called The "O!" Show. The exhibition is about OVER-THE-TOP-ness, and the all of...