Color Fiesta on Plastic

Second plastic painting, entitle 'Color Fiesta'.

Venus on Plastic

This is a new plastic painting of 'Venus Ad' on clear plastic with oil paint.

Quick video tour of the West Chelsea Arts Building art studio

This is a short video tour of my West Chelsea Arts Building studio at 5:00 p.m. on January 13, 2010.

Studio Painting Wall - West Chelsea Arts Building, Studio 511

Studio photo of painting wall late afternoon, January 11, 2010.

Laffy Taffy Painting updated, January 11, 2010

Laffy Taffy painting in progress, January 11, 2010.

High Line Open Studios 09 Poster

Here is the wall poster for the HIgh Line Open Studios event. They will be available at my studio during the events, October 15 -18, 2009.

Join Me for the West Chelsea Arts district's High Line Open Studios 09 Art Event

September 29, 2009, New York City - New York based artist Scotto Mycklebust is opening his art studio to the public as part of the Chelsea Arts district fall event High Line Open Studios 09. Over 100 Chelsea artists will open their studios to celebrate the new High Line Park in West Chelsea.

To kick off the event, Scotto Mycklebust will host an opening reception and party on Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6-8 p.m.

Please join the artist for an Open Reception Party on:

Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6-8 p.m.

526 West 26th St, NYC

Studio 511

Official High Line Open Studios hours:

Thursday 15th and Friday 16th October 6 - 9 p.m.

Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th October noon - 6 p.m.

For a map and more information visit the High Line Open Studio website at http://www.highlineopenstudios09.org

http://www.scottomycklebust.com

For more information please contact scotto@scottomycklebust.com or call 917 697-0844.

5th Small Scale Painting Completed Today

The fifth in the series of 6 new small scale paintings was completed today. The painting is 48 x 39". 

Detail of the third painting.

This is the third painting in the series completed so fare. There will be six paintings. I showed the four paintings to an artist friend. I asked them to chose the one they liked the best. This was their choice.

Studio Display of Four New Paintings

These are four new paintings which where completed in the past two days.  These paintings are part of group of six small-scale paintings I am currently working. The paintings are 48 x 38".

Newest Untitled Large-Scale Painting

This is the newest painting for the group of large-scale paintings I am currently working on. The painting is 68 x 56".

My Studio Wall with Today's Works

This is the studio painting wall which I use to work on my paintings. The three paintings hanging on the wall are paintings I  have just completed. The center painting is the newest large-scale painting. It is a collage of large digital prints of found images and photos. The small POV painting, is part of the POV series. POV stand for "Point Of View". The other small painting is an untitled portrait.

Newest Large-scale Painting Completed 5/31/09

This painting was completed today. It is part of a group of large scale paintings which I am currently working on. This is the sixth work in the group of ten paintings.

P.O.V. Painting Finally Finished

My P.O.V. painting was completed today. The painting was started in February 2008 and  took a little more than a year to finish.  The title P.O.V. referrers to the orange letters in the painting which is an acronym for "Point Of View". The work was stimulated by the growing political discussions in the media during the 2008 presidential elections. There were severals small POV studies done, which have been published in a POV sketchbook. You can view the sketchbook online at http://www.scottomycklebust.com/POV 

Artist Albert Oehlen at Luhring Augustine Gallery in Chelsea

I dropped into Luhring Augustine gallery this week to see what was on view. To my surprise, there was a show of work by Albert Oehlen, a German artist who worked and hung out with Martin Kinppenbergerin the early 1980's. They collaborated on several paintings; the current MOMA show features a car which Kippenberger and Oehlen painted together. It was not my favorite pieces in the show, but offered an interesting prospective, and a far-out example of what is accepted as art. 

The Luhring Augustine's show includes a selection of Oehlen's new work; ten large-scale advertisement paintings. I like the work very much. It's somewhat in the same line as the paintings I am currently working on.  I appreciate Oehlen's synthesis of painting and billboard graphics, which gives a context and visual appeal to the work. The juxtaposition of the two media sets up a disassociated abstraction, which plays out on the canvas. The structure and use of white space sets up a visual counterpoint to the constrained area covered by the imagery. I think these paintings reflect contemporary exposure to the bombardment of mass media in all its forms. Art like Oehlen's acts as a reflective catalyst.

Studies for "Girl with Straw Hat" Painting

Here are two small studies for my "Girl with Straw Hat" painting.

"24 Panel Painting:" original advertisements

The "24 Panel Painting" original founded advertisement page, painted over with gouache colors.

New Work: a large-scale painting, "Girl with Straw Hat"

Here is the second painting in the series of the large-scale paintings for exhibition. This image was the inspiration for the series. The work is comprised of large-format digital prints, mounted on canvas with oil paint. The original image for "Girl with Straw Hat" is from a small printed advertisement page I found in the street, while walking to the studio one morning.  I brought it to the studio and painted over each ad photo with gouache, blocking out part of the photograph.