造化 : Good Fortune

During Chinese New Year, Mandarin oranges and tangerines, are considered traditional symbols of abundance and good fortune. During the two-week celebration, they are frequently displayed as decoration and presented as gifts to friends, relatives, and business associates.

The Mandarin in winter.

Mandarin I, oil on primed paper, 3 1/2" x 5"

 Mandarin II, oil on primed paper, 3 1/2" x 5"

  Mandarin III, oil on primed paper, 3 1/2" x 5"

Mandarin IV, oil on primed paper, 3 1/2" x 5"

 xīn nián kuài lè

Cannabis

Cannabis I -  oil on wood panel

Cannabis II - oil on wood panel

Chinatown Viagra and Such

Viagra, oil on panel

Oxycontin, oil on panel

Rush, oil on panel

Nitro, oil on panel

Highlights From Two Window Project Director: Gregory Teodori

 

 

 

 

 

NYC artist R.Weber arriving in Berlin

After an historically eventful week on the east coast of the United States, first hit with a rare and major earthquake then days later being in the direct path of a hurricane the city of New York and its residents fared well. Irene the category 3 Hurricane was downgraded to a Tropical Storm by the time of it's landfall there sparing the city the wrath it could of caused in it's former state.

New York's John F. Kennedy Airport recently reopened and started to undo its massive tangle of delayed and cancelled flights. The artist R.Weber made it to the terminal on time and the flight left the airport late last night with just a short delay. Weber is now somewhere over the Atlantic and on the way to Berlin for the exhibition.

Bringing along small scale oil paintings depicting various contraband items will accompany the drawings of Berliner artist Katharina Arndt in the upcoming Two Window Project exhibition 'Beauty Is the Hardest Drug'. Wishing Weber a safe landing and fair weather for her time here in our city.

Please join us Friday evening for the opening of this exhibition from 6:00 - 9:00 pm at the gallery and have a toast with the fine wines of southern Germany from the VDP German wine association. Both artist will be present.

Beauty Is the Hardest Drug

a dual solo exhibition by Katharina Arndt and R.Weber

opening reception for the artists: 2 September from 6:00 - 9:00 pm

exhibition: 3 September - 8 October 2011

Two Window Project

Torstrasse 154, D-10115 Berlin

www.twowindowproject.com

Wanted: Two Window Project Berlin, Germany

Feral #1 (sold)

Two Window Project presents the group-exhibition WANTED in its ongoing program of themed multi-artist events and the first that is joint venture with the Janine Bean Gallery.
WANTED includes new works by gallery artists Klaas Bosch, Julia Bulik, Dinah Busse, Nata Lee Hahn, Greg Owen, Hannah Parr, René Schäffer/Regina Steigler, STiNK!, Tilo Uischner, R.Weber and Jan Wurm that visualize this familiar topic from many different points of view; historic, literal, fantasy and from their own personal experiences and interpretations.

Read more on this exhibition:
Creative Face the creative network magazine

(sold)

(sold)

Those First Few Moments of Morning

( both sold)

Some things Remain

(sold)

(sold)

(sold)

(sold)

(sold)

(sold)

What Could Have Been

(all sold)

Botox: Featured in Superior Magazine, Berlin Germany

Marking the start of Berlin’s fall 2011 art season Two Window Project presents new works by Katharina Arndt of Germany and Rebecca Weber of the USA in their dual solo exhibition Beauty Is The Hardest Drug. Through their new works, these two artists explore today’s perception of beauty, celebrity and a host of the accoutrements of its darker side that have been associated with this phenomenon.

To read more about this exhibition:
SuperiorMagazine

Art Slant

IHeartBerlin

Tulum, Mexico

Tulum Ruins Before the Storm


My third trip to Tulum, Mexico.
I could spend a month just painting at the Mayan ruins.
The light is so beautiful, the sea so blue,
all I wanted to do was just sit and observe, taking it all in.
I had to read again, Hawthorne on Painting, in order to attempt a study of this place.

La Vita e Bella- Boca Paila, Tulum, Mexico

From Diamante K

From Diamante K II

Diamante K Sea

Potassium Iodide

Potassium Iodide
Following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in April, 1986, a saturated solution of potassium iodide was administered to 10.5 million children and 7 million adults in Poland as a prophylactic measure against accumulation of radioactive iodine-131 in the thyroid gland. People in the areas immediately surrounding Chernobyl itself, however, were not given the supplement.

It was reported on March 16, 2011, that potassium iodide tablets were given  to U.S. Naval air crew members flying within 70 nautical miles of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant damaged in the massive Japanese earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011.

This bottle has been in his refrigerator in New York since days following 9/11.  

Leaves of Hypnos

These dark days of gloom, that breeds despair.
I bought nine antique, handmade, scissors from a man in India.
Forged violence.
To paint.
A quiet manufacturer of things cut in half.



"Hypnos seized the winter and dressed it
In granite. The winter turned into sleep
And Hypnos became fire. What followed
Belongs to men."

Rene Char

Another Stolen Day

(sold)


Persimmons in a Black Bowl, 3 x 5 , oil on primed watercolor paper

(sold)


Pomegranate, 3 x 5, oil on primed watercolor paper

(sold)

Rose hips,  2 1/2 x 6, oil on primed watercolor paper

(sold)


Persimmons In Bowl. 2x3, oil on primed paper

(sold)

Portraits

(sold)

(sold)

I hand picked these tri-colored carrots yesterday for a soup recipe I was developing. Their delicate root tendrils took more care in peeling than the average carrot, leaving more time to ponder their individual particularities. I began to think of them more as having personalities, deciding then to paint them as little portraits.

Wye Oak and Being Humbled

(sold)

(sold)

The Wye Oak was the honorary state tree of Maryland, and the largest white oak tree in the United States. The Wye Oak was believed to be over 460 years old at the time of its destruction during a severe thunderstorm on June 6, 2002.
It is believed that the acorn that became the oak germinated around the year 1540.
My friend and fellow painter,Charles Sheely, gave me a branch, clipped from a 10 year old sapling of this great old tree. This is the first year his tree has produced acorns.
I quickly jumped into painting the branch, sitting for hours trying to mix the right green, trying to create depth in the leaves. My first attempt failed miserably. Nature once again has kicked me in the ass, and made me question the mystery of observational painting.

Granate

(sold)




























(sold)

(sold)

It was in the Fall, two years ago, that I bought pomegranate branches. I carried, what was left of that flower district purchase, back with me to New York a few evenings ago.
Fall is here again.
The pomegranates have long ago dried.
My life is still here in this little studio.

oil on primed watercolor paper, 5" x 7"
oil on primed watercolor paper, 5" x 7"
oil on panel, 8" x 8"

Cape Henlopen, Summer's End

(sold)

(sold)


Finally a few days, in late August, with clear skies. We decided to head to Delaware, Cape Henlopen. The campground is set on a WWII Army site. Visible still are the watch towers in the distance. We walked through the empty barracks and looked out over the arsenal, set back on the Great Sand Dune. Our meals cooked on the open fire and the sound of breaking waves in the night hours.

(sold)

(sold)

(sold)

(sold)
(sold)