delta, Author at Maniscalco Gallery

The Avant Garde vs Everyone Else?

by delta | Jul 29, 2017 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Uncategorized, World View

In recent years, Charleston has discovered the Avant Garde. It is very liberating when this freedom of expression comes to a city. Charleston is lucky to have great people and institutions leading the movement. City Gallery and Redux come to mind right away. More and...

Beauty and the Beast

by delta | Jul 25, 2017 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Theatre Related, Uncategorized, World View

Our family rented the movie, Beauty and the Beast, last night. Cate and I find it very moving, in all its incarnations. I’ve never fully understood why this particular story has such power for me. Here’s one attempt at an answer. The beauty represents our...

Mire of desire

by delta | Jun 30, 2017 | Fine Art, Motivational, Uncategorized, World View

Many of us believe artists are the mirrors of society. It is my intention that this collection of paintings, currently on the walls at Fabulon, gets us to look at the nature of desire. Here’s my exhibition statement: This exhibition, “The Quench Project...

Portrait of Rocky

by delta | Jun 8, 2017 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

Rocky Lives! To celebrate Rocky’s twelve years (and counting) on this Earth, Mary and Gren, his mom and dad, decided to have an oil portrait. Love, devotion, fondness don’t begin to describe the feelings this animal has engendered from his family....

Start with the Idea

by delta | May 26, 2017 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Theatre Related, Uncategorized, World View

“Find the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.” Constantin Stanislavski People often tell me they really want to be an artist and ask me what they should do to become successful. Most of them have stars in their eyes and are looking at me to feed...

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