This series was inspired by my lady, she loves her heels. This is a series of four paintings featuring some of my favorite sexiest heels on a woman: The Slide, Ankle Boot, Sandal and of course the classic red D’Orsay. This series is for sale for $300 for all four. Thanks.
Dance. 36"x48". Acylic. 2003
If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.
My homie Freddie just purchased this painting for only $100!!! All my art on my website painted before 2003 is on sale for the LOW LOW. Nothing adds more class to your home then original art. Get yours while they last. If you want to see which pieces I’m moving for killer prices contact me and I’ll email you jpegs. Paintings can be shipped to any address. This painting is 3ft x 4ft for $100, that’s crazy!!! All old paintings must go. DON”T MISS OUT!!!
Good looking Fred Dog!
I painted a seven painting series to take paintings to a new level, to new places. I wanted to take it off the wall and into another format and at the same time tell a story. I find beauty in moments like the subject matter used. I had to capture the moment. Check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnVaGrl8uyE and please share your thoughts. PEACE
Las Vegas. 40"x30". Acrylic. 2009.
Las Vegas the city of lights. Sin City. This one is for my Las Vegas natives, dice rollers, poker players, gamblers and of course strippers!!!
New York. 40"x30". Acrylic. 2009.
New York, New York big city of dreams. This one is for all my New Yorkers out there. One Love sun!
New Orleans. 40"x30". Acrylic. 2009.
Anyone who knows me or viewed my pervious blog posts knows that I usually get personally involved in my art work. It’s a challenge for me to paint and not get involved, I’m always trying to push myself as a artist so I thought I’ll paint a series of three that anyone can enjoy and a subject matter that I have never painted before. I decided to paint landscapes, or cityscapes. New Orleans, New York and Las Vegas. Here’s to New Orleans!
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Many waters can't quench. 28"x40". Oil. 2003.
This is my favorite painting. I started this painting with the intent of it being something completely different, but my thoughts and emotions took over and this was the final result. This painting may be my most personal piece, it tells where I was at that moment. I won’t explain this piece as I have the others, like I said it’s personal. But I feel that this painting needs no translation. To me it’s very clear. I would love to hear your thoughts on the painting, what it says to you. Can you tell what I was going though at that time? If you comment and your on the right track I will respond and give more insight. Enjoy and thanks for viewing.
Diallo. 24"x36". Oil. 1999.
I painted Diallo in 1999 in protest of the 41 shots fired by NYPD on a unarmed man. I like this piece because I did it fast and I used my anger. It’s good to feel anger every now and then. It helps you control it.
In the early morning of February 4, 1999, Diallo was standing near his building after returning from a meal. Police officers Edward McMellon, Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy passed by in a Ford Taurus when they thought Diallo matched the description of a (since-captured) serial rapist and approached him. The officers were in plain clothes. The officers claimed that they loudly identified themselves as NYPD officers and that Diallo ran up the outside steps toward his apartment house doorway at their approach, ignoring their orders to stop and “show his hands”. As the suspect reached into his jacket, Carroll believed Diallo was drawing a firearm and yelled “Gun!” to alert his colleagues. The officers opened fire on Diallo and during the burst McMellon fell down the steps, appearing to be shot. The four officers fired forty-one shots, hitting Diallo nineteen times. Investigation found no weapons on Diallo’s body; the item he had pulled out of his jacket was not a gun, but a wallet. On March 25 a Bronx grand jury indicted the officers on charges of second-degree murder and reckless endangerment. On December 16 a New York appellate court ordered a change of venue to Albany, New York, stating that pretrial publicity had made a fair trial in New York City impossible. On February 25, 2000, after two days of deliberations, a jury acquitted the officers of all charges. [edit] Aftermath Diallo’s death, the change of venue, and the verdict each sparked massive demonstrations against police brutality and racial profiling, resulting in more than 1,700 arrests over the course of many weeks. In 2001 the Justice Department announced that it would not charge the officers with having violated Diallo’s civil rights. On April 18, 2000, Diallo’s mother, Kadiatou, and his stepfather, Sankarella Diallo filed a US$61,000,000 ($20m plus $1m for each shot fired) lawsuit against the City of New York and the officers, charging gross negligence, wrongful death, racial profiling, and other violations of Diallo’s civil rights. In March 2004, they accepted a US$3,000,000 settlement. The settlement was reportedly one of the highest against the City of New York for a single man with no dependents under New York State’s restrictive wrongful death law, which limits damages to pecuniary loss by the descedant’s next of kin.Anthony H. Gair a partner in the law firm of Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf, lead counsel for the Diallo family, argued that Federal Common Law should apply pursuant to Section 1983 of the civil rights act. In April 2002, as a result of the killing of Diallo and other controversial actions, the Street Crime Unit was disbanded.
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The City. 48"x36". Oil. 2003
The City. Painted in 2003 during a 3 month exercise, where I challenged myself to paint one painting every week. The City was fun to paint. I used every color I owned, and mixed others. The Black line is one continous line. Can you follow it?
