Painting, Smoking, Drinking, Eating, Sleeping.

[NNadir]

Richard Ryan, b. 1950

At the Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco.

http://hackettfreedman.com/templates/artist.jsp?id=RYA

[Richard Steele]

1. As an artist, I'm quite impresed with Ryan's work.

The word "jealous" might not be entirely incorrect.

[NNadir]

2. Well if you must be jealous, be jealous of the right things.

He's on another level, that's for sure.

At Hackett Freedman also, "Garlic Scapes."

[Richard Steele]

3. It's a big world out there, and there's just soooo much to be jealous of.

I caught the Barkley Hendricks retrospective at the Nasher Museum
the other month, and had to add him to the list:
http://www.nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions_hendricks.php

[NNadir]

4. True dot.

[NNadir]

5. I hate to be rude, but for personal reasons, I need to kick this thread up.