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abz room at Marianist Galleries building…
I have a permanent display of my work up in my “abz room”…

yes… “peace now!”

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Drawing with a 40,000 degree pen
(the plasma cutter can cut up to 1/4″ thick metal)… explained further…

As one of my first large scale pieces (it measures 5’w x 4’h), I typed up an explaination of it and pasted it in my sketchbook… on view at Marianist Galleries.

If ever there was a year to ring in spring…

… this is it!

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Happy Chaminade Day!

Fr. Chaminade in metal and enamel paint at Marianist Galleries.
Hand drawn with a plasma cutter.

See also last year’s posting here.

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Merry Christmas Eve…

abz manger finds a home this year at the Maryland Avenue Marianist Community

 

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abz metal bug…
this little creature hangs on the light cord to the ceiling fan in my room.
Thought I would have its picture taken outdoors.

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Hand made paper fish wall haning in the third floor hallway at the Maryland Avenue Marianist Community.

 

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Some things at the top of a bookshelf…

… antique coffee grinder my father had at his bakery in Barneveld, NY… glass flower holder holding abz made metal flowers… Dansk candle lamp — gift from friends in Albany, NY… Dorothy’s house — abz sculpture made out of a bed spring and copper sheet… three stuffed creations… three abz wire sculptures: turtle, four-legged creature, hand stand person… “abz” inital Br. Mel book holder… President Kennedy and Jackie plate from the early 1960s.

 

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abz collection continued…

Some things around my room… American Colonial acrylic painting by Stephen Davis (2012) — one of my repeating sketchbook workshop participants… watercolor of houses in Cuba, Missouri by Br. Mel Meyer, SM (July 2011) — Christmas gift, 2011… from left… Pocket Etch A Sketch… painting of St. Luke painting fish by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS… family weather station (tells temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity) that my mother bought with S&H Green Stamps (mid 60s)… 8×10 print of Polaroid family self portrait… photos of me with my mother and grandmother…Fr. Chaminade metal commemorating his beatification (2000)… wooden bird by Fred, a friend of Marianist Galleries… photo of favorite abz metal piece… St. Kateri Tekakwitha prayer card… mini Let Go — abz metal wall hanging…

Encanto (charm) Butterfly
by Deborah Banyas (2007) …favorite abz drawing, Father in his chair (17 August 1988).

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abz bookshelf top, part one

I have a collection of various “art” things — creative items that make me smile — collected through the years. A few of these things are on the top of a bookshelf that was in my room in Barneveld, NY.

…from left, counter clockwise…

Juggling snow person… gift from cousins Kate Candreva and Carol Gollegly from Young’s Dairy gift shop, mid 1990s.

Geode from Tom Wendorf for my birthday this year.

Cool spider with realistically moving legs in a carved wooden nutshell (that you open up and it scares you to death) from John Morand, 1980s.

Decorative wooden box you slide open and a dragon pops out and hits your finger from Mrs. Kashawa’s gift shop in Old Forge, mid 1960s.

abz painted Br. Mel sunny side up metal egg, Christmas gift from Br. Mel, 2003.

abz metal mother and child… Mary is pointing to Jesus and saying, “Do whatever he tells you.”

Favorite Polaroid of my father laughing while watching “Hollywood Squares.”