The best part of art openings is the art of course but that is often hard to see with all the commotion. The second best part is the free ranging conversation and no one is better at that than Ed Buscemi. He has taught art as an adjunct professor at Fisher, MCC and Brockport and is now teaching full time online for the Art Institute of Pittsburg.
Most people look the other way when they see my art. It must make them uncomfortable but I am comfortable with that. It is not for them. Some people get it and respond in ways that could read like my artist statement. I am holding out for the day when the art reads on its own. Ed Buscemi read my eleven drawings on display at the I-Square Gallery last night and talked my ear off with Renaissance references and encouragement to go for the gesture, to follow up with the direct, confident strokes he delighted in pointing out.
“Look at Egon Schiele,” he said, while all I could think was, “I’ve got to paint a picture of this guy.”
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Great face. I think you do need to draw him. And I really like this work.