Art Fair art3F Metz

This weekend my paintings will be presented by Sarah Hasch - Fine Arts at the Art Fair: art3F Metz.  

Metz is close to Luxembourg and home of a Pompidou Center.

Here is one of my paintings that will be in Sarah Hasch's stand.

 

This was a plate of fries at the Double T Diner in Frederick Maryland.  I love the abstraction.

#Contest - Title this painting -

Waiting for your title (sold)

60x90cm oil on canvas -

Contest:

title this painting

prize: 

hand drawn postcard of Parisian Cafe scene

Rules:

• Contest open until 10pm Paris time tonight, that gives you 15 hours
• Suggest a title for this painting directly on my Facebook page here : AngieBrooksby
• only one title per comment
• Please note that this is an American Diner.  What title would you want it to have if it was hanging in your living room? 
• you can enter more than one title but in a separate comment
• The title with the most likes in 15 hours wins a hand drawn postcard black ink on archival paper 
• I will choose one of the postcards  on my blog: the last two winner cards were sent to Paris
• Postcard sent to the address of winner's choice anywhere in the world within 10 days

Angel Diner

Angel Diner, oil on canvas 80x120 cm --

There was a third figure in this painting but it didn't work so I had to cut it. You know, like editing a book. 

What I like about this painting is the play of depth because of the Marylin poster and the mirrors and the sunlight bleaching out the figure to the right.  Diners are chrome and shiny.

This particular diner is in Washington, D.C.,  near Constitution Avenue. 

Lots of people here in Paris associate my painting with Hopper.  I think that it is the American style of painting which unavoidably exits off my brush.  Hopper is  one of the most known contemporary realists.

Yes, Hopper did Diners but he also did landscapes, which I find terribly boring .  Last year I did not go see his expo in Paris at the Grand Palais, one because I know his work well, two because I try to avoid painting like him.  It just comes out.  I'd rather be associated with the amazing colorist: Wyane Thiebaud.  But he's less known on this side of the Atlantic. 

The Grande Marché d'Art Contemporain at the Bastille - Paris May 2014

 

Here's my stand, less is more.  

Number 102 on the Bastille end just off the parvis along Avenue de Bourdon.

I've invited about thirty gallerists to come.  One, I know, has looked into my stuff. 

The theme is diners and comptoirs.  I like the comparaison between the contemporary American diner and the contemporary Parisian comptoir.  The American diner has been around for quite a while and really not much has changed in the decor, kind of like the Parisian comptoir.  In both the waiters and waitresses wear uniforms.

 This is the first series I've ever done of interiors. 

Merde you must tell me, don't wish me luck, I'll despise you. Tell me merde for French or merda if you want to speak Italian. Both work if your Anglo. 

So happy I am that I quit painting cars and scenes of New York, its saturated.

 

My stand is right in front of the metro tracks, trains come and go all the time.

 

Here is everyone setting up yesterday.

 

And like wow, I am way down there on the left.  Look at that white sky!

Merde merda merde!

Diner painting

 

Pay Here

80x120cm

oil on canvas

I've been busy busy in the atelier painting for the Grand Marché d'Art Contemporain.  This is one of the Diner series.  Its complicated to get photos of cafe interiors because the people manning bars aren't keen on being  photographed.  But this place was different; the American Citizen Diner in D.C. They were so cool, just let me photograph everything.  I loved the little electric choo choo train that  chugged around the shelf on the cieling.  Can't wait to go back to D. C. for more pix.

Thanks to the staff.  I'll be sending postcards of the paintings I do as soon as possible.

New Work, New look, New Everything

 

Frites

oil on canvas 

80x120cm

This is just the begining but the painting won't move much from here.  .

This is the first of the diner series.   This diner is the Double T Diner in Frederick Maryland.

The new work will be shown for the first time at the Grand Marchè d'Art Contemporain GMAC at the Bastille from 1-5 May 2014

Stand 102