Hartford days part 2: the coffee shop art-kids.

I have received more free coffee from Starbucks than probably anyone in the world. During a period when I drank quite a LOT of coffee, I happened to make friends with some very cool art school kids who all worked at the Starbucks in West Hartford. It was across the street from the Animation Art […]

More self portraits from the late 80s and early 90s.

The sheer quantity of self-portraits figurative artists do in art school is mind-boggling. These were either Fall 1989 or Spring 1990, in the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Painting classes of Elizabeth Erickson or Jackie Kielkopf. It’s hard to see but the one above has collaged paper on it, bits of golden light and […]