"Ode to Orange Profuse Baseball"

Semi Abstract OPB

Orange Profuse Baseball was an artistic propaganda endeavor of mine around 2011-2014.  Basically, it was a four-page newsletter, in color, focused on everything surreal and non-objective about the art world and its community. The name was completely random with no meaning whatsoever. A retired editor named Tom jumped right in and put the format together and then about a year later died, and it suffered a lingering death over the next few years. 

Nobody was as good as Tom with OPB, Bo Norwood was the only other editor that seemed to care. I had a Bar/Coffee Shop/Music stage next to my gallery for about 4+ years.  It was full of craziness.  Sold a ton of paintings, helped a ton of people, and dropped about half a million dollars into a downtown that was run down and suffering.  This painting is an Ode to that magazine in the sense that it too is completely random and abstract.

This is a quasi-rare totally non-objective painting of mine.  It took about 5-6 years to complete.  I have a large studio in my home, and it was born as usual, on one of those walls; then it sat, about 75% finished, for many years.  It wasn’t ready until 2023 to be completed and the results are just Ok to me.  Not a huge fan of this painting.  It definitely pops and vibrates which became the intentions of the consequences.  I eventually wanted everything to move and stand out, actually vibrate the visual senses.

It’s not my favorite piece but it allowed me to have fun and explore, and for some reason most people love it, not me. A frame contains this painting well, holds it to its purpose and allows the art to speak exactly the way it is supposed to.