Wednesday, October 25, 2006

"Players I" and "Players II"



"Players I" and "Players II" are original works commissioned by H&R Block, Kansas City, MO. Thanks are in order to many working on the project. Thanks to Paul Dorrell, art consultant from Leopold Gallery in Kansas City, for being inspired by my art, leopoldgallery.com, to Sharon Leger Gottula for the photos shown above, gottula.com, to Peter Altman, William Prenevost and Laura Muir from the Kansas City Repertory Theatre for being so helpful in the creation of the paintings, missourirepertorytheatre.org, to St Louis artist William Lobdell for driving so safely, williamlobdellartsite.com, to Bill Rose for being a great host while I visited Kansas City for the opening, to Mark Buckheit in St Louis for his impeccable framing and generous spirit and last but definitely not least H&R Block for supporting regional artists and commissioning these pieces, www.hrblock.com.

Monday, October 23, 2006

KC Rep Commissions Installed



"Players I" and "Players II" have been installed!! The H&R Block Center which includes Kansas City Repertory Theatre's new downtown Copaken Stage had its Grand Opening Saturday October 21. Great party with 2000 people seeing the art. This is a shot of young lady at the opening with "Players I" answering questions about art in the new collection. I will post images of both pieces when I get the final shots.