Butterfly Inspiration

This Is How They Begin...

new stretched canvas in the studio

mask the sides, create a masterpiece..

I Love My Dad

my biggest fan, Pablo Berman

with Seven Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean, oil and resin on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

Dad and me at The Bill Lowe Gallery inaugural exhibition summer 2009

At left, Opera, 2009, oil and resin on canvas, 48 x 60

At right, Dale Chihuly glass sculptures

Lowe Gallery Entrance

From left:

Dale Chihuly glass sculpture

Alexis Berman, Dormita I & II diptych, oil and resin on canvas, 20 x 20 inches each

Alexis Berman, Seven Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean, oil and resin on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

Me and My Gas Masks

nude nails and gas mask in my Venice Beach studio

such a hot look.

Sexy!

Marc Jacobs' Dark Dream

MJ runway

Victoria Beckham in Marc Jacobs' ad campaign

Marc Jacobs' spring 2008 collection, principally these navy and multicolored flower dresses inspired the painting below. Thick visceral layers, exploding and leaking at the seams with fuchsia, yellows, and greens

Marc Jacobs' Dark Dream, 2008

oil on canvas

20 x 24 inches

Rooms That Listen

"A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world." - Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

Works by Ellsworth Kelly and Roy Lichtenstein on display at the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Los Angeles.

photo// Monica Almeida/The New York Times