Ruminations of the Artist...

Here are the new drawings that i did while traveling for the past two weeks...April 30, 2011 - May 15, 2011 on the Royal Caribbean Voyager of the Sea from Galveston, Texas to Barcelona, Spain... I have included two sketches fyi and two unfinished drawings which some might find interesting...

There will be two shows of my original art this summer…the first will be at JAY Gallery in Seoul Korea www.jaypia.com  July 6 through July 19… I will try to be there on July 6 and 7 if the flights stay open, so this is a great excuse to go to Korea and see several of my large format drawings up in one room as well as one of the diptych paintings!!! and a fairly large number of smaller drawings and paintings…

The second show will be for the month of August at the World Erotic Art Museum in the South Beach area of Miami, Beach… This will be 18 paintings and drawings in what is my all time favorite museum of art… WEAM houses Naomi Wilzig’s amazing collection of Erotic Art… A brief essay about my first visit to Weam is posted at www.ascentaspirations.ca...  You can see it by clicking on “Archives” and “Essays” and scrolling down to “My Visit to the World Erotic Art Museum…” I will be in Miami Beach for the opening, and will let everybody know when that is…

...So, it is very interesting and weird for a reclusive old sloth like me to be doing these art shows and I have not made up my mind yet if there will be others after these two…it depends on how I feel about the experience…

One of my drawings has been selected as the book cover for Denis Emorine's new book Closing Time, featured in the Sketchbook May / June 2010 Book Fair.

So keep in touch when you can… I love to get e-mails and respond to them when I can… normanjolson@hotmail.com    I have recently been traveling in Washington DC and LA so will write about that when I get time….

all peace and love to all!!!! norman j. olson
www.normanjolson.com