Video- painting- video- painting

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/24630559]This is a short video of me working on one of my last pieces.

The spoken word piece I wrote, recorded, edited and produced in 2007.

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New Paintings

Here are some images of work done in the last few months. You can view more on my personal website at http://www.samo4prez.com or on my Etsy page at http://www.etsy.com/shop/samo4prez

8 April 1973 | 36x48 | $3000

WEBSITE UPDATE

I just updated the website with new work from the LOVE show in Dallas..i will be showing at HOPE an event for Naomi's Village orphanage April 3rd in Dallas with Zach Saucedo, Sean Ellis, Bob Johnson, Justin Hoff Strickland and many others to be named.... visit this link for pits of the new stuff  www.samo4prez.com

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Some of my influences....

This is from the final episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foerFJqupYM]

A piece done on Rothko that I really enjoy.  The music is perfectly fit, performed by Daniel Giorgetti

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1yuAoQp0k]

(This post is also on the Veritas blog.)

I just came across this today on the Blue Tower Arts Foundation blog, I am surprised I missed the episode.  Julian is an Artist that I admire not only for his painting but for his films.  He is one of my major artistic influences.  If you have seen Basquiat, Before Night Falls or Diving Bell and the Butterfly and missed Schnabel the painter, then you need to do some research and view his works.  

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sajnloTFvU&eurl=http://bluetowerarts.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/julian-schnabel-on-60-minutes/&feature=player_embedded]