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From
November 1, 2008
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by
Bob Matheny, Le Gran Celebrity Portrait Photographer |
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From
September 1, 2008
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Andy Warhol on celebrity:
"Uh, gee. great" |
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From
June 1, 2008
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Still-life Photographs of Japanese Antique & Vintage Objects
borrowed from Ginger Wallace and Kazuo Kuwabara, Owner Oriental Treasure Box, San Diego, CA
by Bob Matheny |
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From
February 1, 2008
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by Bob Matheny
Each of the fifteen pieces/sets in this show has three elements: (1) an original two-piece wooden Japanese rakugan mold, (2) a casting made using the mold, and (3) an arrangement of (1) and (2) documented with a digital image.
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From
May 13, 2007
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Selections & Arrangements
by Bob Matheny
Japanese food, its preparation and presentation is culture and fashion.
My interpretations suggest how Japanese chefs might prepare exotic looking sea creatures for consumption by ordinary looking land creatures vicariously enjoyed as a feast for the eyes or a feast for the stomach.
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From
January 20, 2007
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Mixed Media Relief Sculpture
by Bob Matheny
 "San" to a westerner, I think, means respect. For example, in the fifties we would say "papasan" and momasan" as a way of honoring parents and their ages. Thus, "foosan" means, to me, to honor Japanese food. "Foosan" sounds better to me than "Foodsan."
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From
November 23, 2006
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Historical Photo Montages
1943 - 1944
by Bob Matheny
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From
October 31, 2006
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Historical Photo Montages
1939 - 1943
by Bob Matheny
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From
December 2, 2005
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EXIT
PALETTES
by Bob Matheny
The subject of palettes has been an interesting run (for me), but it is time to ramble and roam onto a new track of a determinable obsession.
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From June 17, 2005
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Richard Morse Allen
Richard Allen Morris
Morris Skungle
Almost or maybe sixteen years ago, Richard Morris Allen and Richard Allen Morris were scheduled to have a two-man show at the Santos-Dumont Aerostation of Art in a hangar at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, California. The hangarlord got downwind of the underground but not airworthy gallery, and aborted the operation.
A third Morris has been added to the highly virile, volatile and inflammatory mixture and the show rescheduled and relocated to the Flash Online Gallery. It is now ready for your hands-on take-off and inspection.
Happy landing, May 2005
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From May 25, 2005
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Paintings of Painters' Palettes
The majority of the pieces in this show usually consist of five elements:
- The painter's palette, real or bogus,
- The real palette I used to make a painting of the painter's
palette,
- My painting of the painter's palette,
- A photo of the painter who made the first palette, and
- A casting of my thumb.
The painter who made the original palette will receive one-half of the net revenue, if by some chance the piece is sold, and the painter
(the guy standing in front of the easel) who painted a picture of the original palette using another palette, will receive the other one-half
of the net revenue.
Bob Matheny
May, 2005
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From
December 7, 2004
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The work in this show was originally exhibited in the
conference room gallery and mezzanine space at Ocean Beach People's Organic Foods Market.
The show there closed on January 7, 2005 and has been reproduced here
for your continued viewing.
I work with palettes because I like their shapes. -
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skep (beehive) |
From August 13, 2004
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Skep |
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THE NATURAL HISTORY* OF THE SKEP
 his sweet and delicious show provides the curious viewer with just about
everything she/he ever wanted to know about the skep, one of the elements
found on the flag for the Great State of Art and the Great Seal for the
State of Utah.
* Read a review of the funniest documentary film ever about chickens -
The
Natural History of the Chicken.
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WHAT MAY BE THE WORLD'S LARGEST
PALETTE, CIGAR AND THUMB PAINTING* |
From June 15, 2004
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The record shattering one hour reception and exhibition of the world's largest* palette, cigar and thumb painting, aberated itself more or less, on March 13, 2004, at the State of Art's natural outdoor gallery on the surface of the incredible Coyote Buttes landscape in the gorgeous states of Art, Arizona and Utah.
* An unauthorized, unacceptable, unadulterated and uncertified Guiness World's Record.
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This is a new feature on
the Almost Anonymous website. It will be expanded as
additional palette images are acquired. |
Open Now
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A very limited and exclusive group of artists
and designers have found the palette to be an interesting subject
for their work and products.
I have collected a modest number of their
endeavors and present them now for your enjoyment. If I have
neglected to include your work in this collection, please send the
images to me and they will be added to this distinguished catalog.
It may be interesting to note that The Royal
Academy in London has a collection of real painter's palettes
ranging from Reynolds to Sargent and the Salamagundi Club in New
York City has a collection of its deceased members' palettes.
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From April 15, 2004
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The palettes in this show were
used when I made nine monumental landscape paintings on canvas
(unframed shapes of huge rocks with invented color, some 12 feet
high) taken from “Devil’s Garden,” a unique rock formation 12
miles east of Escalante, Utah. I used different palettes for each
painting, in the shapes of the paintings, which eventually became
nine much smaller versions of the paintings, which were shown in
two exhibitions at the source of the paintings - Devil’s Garden.
There was a root beer and champagne reception for the first show,
with Satan and 12 of his buddies attending.
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From
February 20, 2004
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Selected pages from my unpublished and unbound book "Hook'em
Cow - Old Cigar Box Labels, Old Segar Bands & New Writs" first shown
at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in La Jolla, California,
November 23, 1996 thru January 11, 1997.
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From
January 7, 2004
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Guest Artist - Alan Rosenus
The realization that dead Hawaiian frogs can continue to
sing their songs long after they’ve been flattened by tour buses provided
the inspiration for this series of drawings by Alan Rosenus.
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From
November 1, 2003
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Guest Artist -
Jon Pittman
"Life is a banquet - and most poor suckers are starving to
death!" - Auntie Mame
Three series of
drawings by Jon Pittman alias Raymond Beaver
Cosmic Tube and Other Drawings
As a Result of Listening to Brazilian Music
Table Landscapes, Centerpieces etc.
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Infamous Babes |
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From
September 27, 2003
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NINETY-NINER INFAMOUS BABES, CHICKS, DAMES, DOLLS AND/OR STATUES OF LIBERTY AND FREEDOM
This
multi-national, collaborative art exhibition by the Mexican sculptor of
monumental naked guys and dolls Armando Munoz Garcia and the American
dilettante-tay Bob Matheny, alias Almost Maybe, Almost Anonymous and Alberto
Santos-Dumont, was first shown in real time at the Centro Cultural (CECUT) Art
Museum in Tijuana, Mexico, December 7, 2001 thru January 14, 2002.
There are
twenty-nine more babes in this online show, plus audio tracks with some of your
favorite songs and video tracks showing a number of the ladies in motion. An
audio or video icon at the top of a page indicates additional content is
available. Click on the icon, or the audio and
video buttons at the bottom of the page to view the audio and video files. |
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Guest Artist - Leonard Knight |
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Leonard Knight
From
May 11, 2003
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After working five years in Nebraska building a hot air balloon, Leonard Knight
in 1986 drove to Slab City, three miles east of Niland, California, to make one
final attempt to fly the craft. The balloon hugged the ground, too large to have
"slipped the surly bonds of Earth."
Leonard Knight stayed on at the site, living in a converted truck without
electricity, phone or heat, and began creating a fantastic mound of dirt, adobe
and paint.
Several years ago he began constructing an abstract
representation of his hot air balloon, which is the focus of this one-man show.
For materials he is using adobe, bales of hay, tires, salvaged auto glass, parts
of dead trees and acrylic paint. The fantastic structure is located just south
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My Haiku Alphabet |
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From
April 1, 2003
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I made this series of sculpture from firewood a neighbor left in the alley. In
addition to the traditional Haiku rules for writing poetry, I added a number of
others.
1. Titles: three nouns or adjectives beginning with the subject letter
(alliteration).
2. Poetry: three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, most words beginning with the
subject
letter.
3. Letters: three pieces of camphor wood using only a band saw and a sander.
The audio you may want to hear while looking at the 26 letters comes from the
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Famous Artists and
Their Palettes |
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From
December 2, 2002
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My “Palettes” project began about six years
ago when I made nine monumental landscape paintings (unframed shapes of huge
rocks with invented color) taken from “Devil’s Garden,” a unique rock formation
twelve miles east of Escalante, Utah. I used a different palette for each
painting, in the shape of the painting, which eventually became nine much
smaller versions of the paintings. The paintings were shown at the site. That is
Series 1.
Palettes-Series 6, deals with famous artists and
their palettes.
This new work attempts to convey to the internet viewer the
importance of the palette to the painter, not only as a platform for his/her
paint and its myriad combinations, but also as a platform for a cigar, a shot of
whiskey, an ash tray and a thumb.
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From
October 1, 2002
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While visiting Canada a number of years ago, I had the pleasure
to meet Mrs. Nettie Sharpe, one of the premier French/Canadian folk art
collectors. We met at her 300 year old home in Montreal. In her
kitchen was an old, carved
wood coin bank in the form of a loaf of bread. This
handsome object became the inspiration for my own series of carved wood and
painted coin boxes titled: "Bread Boxes: A Baker's Dozen."
The coin bank can be seen in the
Nettie Covey Sharpe House
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The Third Exhibition |
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From
September 1, 2002
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My “Palettes” project began about six years
ago when I made nine monumental landscape paintings (unframed shapes of huge
rocks with invented color) taken from “Devil’s Garden,” a unique rock formation
twelve miles east of Escalante, Utah. I used a different palette for each
painting, in the shape of the painting, which eventually became nine much
smaller versions of the paintings. The paintings were shown at the site. That is
Series 1. Palettes-Series 5 explores real palettes and the mis-representation of
palettes. |
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The Second Exhibition |
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From
June 1, 2002
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Bogus palettes for nine of Marcel Duchamp's infamous Dada masterpieces
plus one.
1. Readymades Aided
2. My Palette of Nude Descending
3. My Palette for a Faulty Landscape
4. My Palette for a Fountain
5. My Palette for a Bride
6. My Palette for a Hare
7. My Palette for a Pharmacy
8. My Palette for Breeding Dust
9. My Palette for a Tongue in My Cheek
10. My Palette with an Bleep, Bleep
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Inaugural Internet Exhibition |
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From
April 1, 2002
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My “Palettes” project began about six years
ago when I made nine monumental landscape paintings (unframed shapes of huge
rocks with invented color) taken from “Devil’s Garden,” a unique rock formation
twelve miles east of Escalante, Utah. I used a different palette for each
painting, in the shape of the painting, which eventually became nine much
smaller versions of the paintings. The paintings were shown at the site. That is
Series 1.
Palettes-Series 2, is an exploration making bogus palettes on found
objects.
Palettes-Series 3 is called “Duchamp’s Palettes,” which were made on dust pans
for a number of Marcel Duchamp’s infamous works.
Palettes-Series 5 explores real palettes and the mis-representation of
palettes.
Palettes-Series 6, deals with famous artists and
their palettes.
Palettes-Series 7, in progress, explores a variety of
miscellaneous palettes using a number of different materials and objects.
My first internet show, “Palettes-Series 4,” surveys the painter’s tools
and material - the palette, canvas, palette knife, brushes, paint and
thumb.
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