Aaron Nagel

I’ve been doing almost nothing but painting for weeks now. very few social interactions at all, dirty house, neglected work, pending taxes, happy cat, etc. I’m making progress, although I’m working on 3 paintings at a time right now, which means they all seem to be crawling towards completion. unsurprisingly I’ve decided I may not want to include one or two older ones in the show and instead have nice shiny brand new ones…that are nowhere near done. keep in mind, that in my painting world, “old” is creeping in around the 6 month mark. but a solo show takes almost a year to paint you say? I guess that means i’m improving, in my own head at least.

First off, happy new year. my 2009 was horrible; with the exception of painting, just about everything else totally blew up in my face. After such a bad year (which shall now be referred to as “oh nien”), I was looking forward to this next decade with urgency…and, so far so good.