For over 40 years I have been a working artist. When you are producing art as a product for sale, it has to be good enough to please your client when you are done. This necessarily focuses attention on the art, and not on whether you have on a pork-pie hat, all black clothes, have a weirdly spelled name with umlauts and accents grave over several letters, are of an obscure or well known ethnic group, or are a transsexual or of a controversial sexual orientation.
The general public must be able to look at what you have done and say 'that's neat', whether in a real or figurative sense. Without the services of a con-artist gallery owner as your representative, aided by many gallons of Carlo Rossi Red in plastic cups, the likelihood that you are going to pass off the top of your work table as a masterpiece, and sell it an oil shiek for thousands diminish exponentially. My favorite criteria for whether art is bullshit or not is to ask, "If I left that out at the curb, would it be thrown into the back of the garbage truck, or would someone pick it up and take it home".
“Painting of a Train ”
“Mosaic Tabletop”
“Sheridan Square 1979”
“Night Dog”
“Bob's Stone”
“Revenge 2”
“table”
“Large carved signs”
