3 Minutes Sand Runs Out

-Paul Richmond

The Egg Came First

- Pete Smolenski
From his website.

Introducing: Peter Smolenski

I have a friend Dimitri (who has a poem on this blog) and I sometimes go to his house to play games. In his kitchen there is this very cool piece of art hanging on the wall: a bright, abstract, psychedelic image. I asked, "Hey, who made that? It's very cool," and Dimitri told me it was a friend of his and his family, Pete Smolenski.

So I logged that in my brain like I do with all sorts of random bits of information. And then I was looking at the 'People you might know' section of Facebook a little while ago, and someone's profile picture was this really great looking psychedelic image, and I thought, "hey that looks like Pete Smolenski's work." Turns out it was his FB profile.

I contacted him, and he agreed to let me feature some of his work here. I looked at his site, and got to see a lot of great art.

It all happened how I like things to happen: person to person, simple and easy, and in the community.

Links:
Peter Smolenski Abstract Art - His website
Abstract Art World - A global community of abstract artists

LIE DOWN IN THE LIGHT

2009, 18 X 24 INCHES

SILICA AND URETHANE ON LINEN

by Sean Greene

"This is like one of Sean's other paintings I saw in person at A.P.E. Gallery. They're even better in person." - Jim DuBois

Bamboo

- embroidery floss on canvas

by Myrrh Brooks