https://www.berryvanboekel.com/home daily 1.0 2023-12-10 https://www.berryvanboekel.com/about daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://www.berryvanboekel.com/home-1 daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/1af30127-f3f1-4e2e-b29e-2605e8ae3e4d/De-Bank-van-Boekel.jpg Exhibitions De Bank, Enschede, Netherlands, 1990. In 1990 I never had seen a palm tree yet. Irony has it that I ended up moving to a property in Florida with many. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/2ff6f81e-3dbb-4327-a94d-083f5eeafc2d/Fine-Arts-Library-Wexner-Center.png Exhibitions "Landscape", oil on canvas, 5 panels, 36"x420" total, 1997, Permanently installed at the Fine Arts Library at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/cc5e45d3-47b2-46e8-a0ca-fe3a4b6c9f01/Thelonious-monk.jpeg Exhibitions Announcement for the first public exhibition of a top 100: Top 100 1999, in "The Other Paper" featuring a drawing depicting Thelonious Monk. Venue: Skylab, Columbus, Ohio, 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/979f0110-4f14-4fdd-b2ad-afddcd5f2e3d/Singles-Tent.png Exhibitions Singles Tent, record sleeves and wood, 6'x7'x8', 2003. The Top 100 2002 marked the 20th year since the start of the Top 100. To celebrate the occasion I constructed a tent from wood that I surfaced with 45 rpm 'singles' sleeves. Inside, among the cushions, was a small 45-player, and a selection of singles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/1b2fd64f-4607-41e7-8c49-3fc7d9704a13/top1002003.JPG Exhibitions Top 100 2003, Installation view, Skylab, Columbus, Ohio, 2004. By this time Skylab had become my own space. and six Top 100 events have been held there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/c16fa228-6699-43e4-a37b-7dc057d54034/Skylab.JPG Exhibitions Top 100 2006, Slylab, Columbus, Ohio, Installation view, 2007. By 2006 I had moved out of Skylab, but my works continued to be displayed once a year. In 2007, Time and Temperature performed her own music. The band 16 Bitch Pile-Up had performed a year before. The background features a custom curtain (one of three) designed specifically for the space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/a773fc2a-48a3-4978-b72b-d7bed03370d5/shelf.JPG Exhibitions Top 100 2008, The Shelf, Installation view, Columbus, Ohio, 2009. When Skylab was booked during the traditional March window for top 100 displays, the works moved to The Shelf, the downstairs neighbors of Skylab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/104edd12-b1ad-4a63-9ad1-003982e09ba1/UC-Reedgallery.jpg Exhibitions "Patient Rooms" installation view. Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, 2009. About 300 top 100 images were selected for a large group exhibition in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the background is the work "Singles Room Screen" from 2008. Curated by Mark Harris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/5cd83b43-0e88-4f18-b0ea-7ab0a8a1ae19/whitecolumns.jpg Exhibitions White Columns, in New York put up close to 600 Top 100 images in 2010. Curated by Matthew Higgs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/8bd2d70b-590b-4d5e-9e0a-eef5095e1b33/TEMPUS_AUGUST_2017.jpg Exhibitions More than 600 for "The Top 100 (Remixed)" curated by Jade Dellinger. Installation view, Tempus Projects, Tampa, Florida, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/de9d44aa-ce60-41e7-a355-b101d7223668/Top1002022.jpg Exhibitions Top 100 2022: installation view, Top 100 Archive & Studio, Fort Myers, Florida, 2023. Since 2021 my own space is used for Top 100 exhibits. https://www.berryvanboekel.com/home-2 daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/8a136374-603d-411a-89b8-c7fe6e46ce54/%23167.JPG Paintings #167, ink and watercolor on newsprint, 70x100 cm., 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/631e3b34-7717-4520-bad1-6fb243fb8fb0/168-rebirth.jpg Paintings #168-Rebirth, ink and watercolor on newsprint, 70x100 cm., 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/331116b1-a561-49e7-a521-d04a82e70ec6/queens.JPG Paintings Queen, various paints on board, 48"x48", 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/7e8cd554-0352-4e85-8abb-59d936c908dd/Untitled-landscape.JPG Paintings Untitled Landscape (after Swinburne), oil on board, 48"x48" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ee074619-2ea2-42e4-90f7-8405698651e1/Herringstand.jpg Paintings The Herring Stand, oil on canvas, 15"x60", 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/47762fde-3b8e-4630-8f47-127fbb1f79e2/Prinsengracht.jpg Paintings Prinsengracht, oil on canvas, 52"x72", 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ae807da3-6ecf-4edf-b6f5-8ee8b0293457/Volendam.jpg Paintings Volendam, oil on canvas, 48"x60", 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ddcdd18d-f112-4fb5-9fdd-062cb5cf8e4c/deport.JPG Paintings Deport Yourself, oil on canvas, 40"x72", 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/f362b1de-a0f6-46fd-997e-20557485547b/100musicians-1.jpg Paintings 100 Musicians-1, oil on canvas, 48"x64", 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/092dcda7-544d-4302-80c5-bc5cef69bdb5/100musicians-2.jpg Paintings 100 Musicians-2, oil on canvas, 42"x62", 2022 https://www.berryvanboekel.com/home-3 daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://www.berryvanboekel.com/home-4 daily 0.75 2024-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/f2225683-36b7-4c0a-8263-4eaacbfc7a0d/Melissa-selfportraitArt270.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/0f33721a-77ee-4c7d-8d72-46b12f6cdf49/Eric-Gerhard-Richter-Art170.jpg Student Works Drawing I, OSU, Eric Lewis, "Gerhard Richter", charcoal on newsprint, 18"x24", 1998. Eric took a drawing class before graduating with a degree in medicine. He had never really drawn, and his initial drawings were stiff and awkward. He learned quickly and drew all the time. He was drawing Gerhard Richter, who was in town to receive an award, from a photograph. Richter admired this and invited him to lunch, and to come to Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/1d2d4deb-a07e-421f-8f34-0fde897dbef9/Superimposition.Art273.jpg Student Works Drawing 2, OSU, Final project: Superimpose a drawing onto a series, charcoal on paper, 72"x96", c. 2009. This series of drawings was made during the semester I fist used the format of sixteen 18x24 drawings displayed in a 4x4 grid for a final project. This student made seventeen drawings of a view from her window (in Ohio). The seventeenth was then superimposed, bit by bit, on the other sixteen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/2e64f700-6201-4568-841d-366bcbeb0ba6/Christian-run-run.jpg Student Works Drawing I, FSW, Christian, "Run. Run", mixed media on paper, 72"x96", 2022. Christian was working at the Rauschenberg Gallery while taking the class. Impressed by Rauschenberg's technique of photo transfers, he researched how it was done, and applied the technique to his final project. The assignment was to perform actions to linking the drawings. This is about his Cherokee ancestry, the headdress shown in the work once belonged to his grandfather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/8e0b4b49-d112-4aa5-9927-2e4d252d614e/Christian-buffet-table-3-D-Design.jpg Student Works 3-D Design, FSW, Christian, "Run Away", spray paint on table, 32"x72"x36", 2023. My second class with Christian, a year after Drawing I, was 3-D Design. The class was by invitation only and centered around a two-week visit to Florence, Italy. Upon return, the students created an exhibition, titled "A Florentine Banquet". Christian designed one of the tables for the installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/68ca3d8f-1ad3-489b-932b-f2c93dd8ebdf/3-D-Design-graffiti.jpg Student Works 3-D Design students, FSW, "639 (239"), various paints on wall, 48"x96", 2023. Part of the same "Florentine Banquet" installation is this collaborative work of graffiti. The “639” of the title refers to the number of a law against graffiti on city property in Italy. Later, I changed the “639” into “239”, which is the area code of Fort Myers. If one city is against graffiti, it’s our FSW hometown of Fort Myers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/d259d7e3-921f-4b04-9167-e71c524a0d68/tressage.JPG Student Works Art Appreciation, FSW, "Only at the Frontier", tressage (weaving), 11"x8.5", collage on paper, 2015. Art Appreciation before COVID, was still a live class at FSW. Students were assigned numerous sketchbook activities to bolster their creativity. One of the favorite projects was to create a number of Surrealist Techniques. In this example a tressage, a weaving is used. Other techniques included frottage (rubbing), pliage (folding), and soufflage (blowing). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/3e90d44a-925a-4fa8-937d-ae64b17a79da/Laissees-Art470.jpg Student Works Painting II, OSU, Surrealist techniques: Laissées (left overs), recycled painting fragments on canvas, 48"x48", c. 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/f2225683-36b7-4c0a-8263-4eaacbfc7a0d/Melissa-selfportraitArt270.jpg Student Works Painting II, OSU, Melissa, "Self Portrait", oil on canvas, 14"x10", c.2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/08c30e19-fa29-4379-9741-5f6301d67743/Photoshop-Art473.jpg Student Works Intermediate drawing, OSU, "Wexner Center for the Arts", digital image (photoshop), c. 2010. A computer lab on campus was reserved for the class for two 3-hour sessions. The assignment was to scan drawings that were created earlier in class, and to continue work on them using digital media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/54ba5f53-f383-4ae2-bdcb-a302778ef951/FSW-mural.jpg Student Works Drawing II, FSW, "01000001 01101001 (AI)", Mural design, charcoal on newsprint, 16"x144", 2023 A design for a mural, the theme was initially called “AI Reversed,” in which AI would design prompts, that the students then would follow. During the process of designing the art, the theme became broader as students reflected on their feelings towards a world dominated by technology. There is some anxiety, but more so an anticipation of the inevitability of a changed world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/8690d8f6-edde-4884-b6cb-ce5fe27dcd3c/IMG_2928.JPG Student Works Art 1301C: Drawing I: Final project, Vestige, movement. Two sheets from a series of sixteen. 24" x 18" each, pencil on paper, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/257d1fba-e12a-4b64-985b-c6b9e09991dd/Koi+Pond+.jpg Student Works Art 2501C: Painting I, Koi Pond Pump Housing Project. Various materials (digital mock-up). Proposal for altering public structure. 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/49f78ef5-f035-4142-a84d-d5e4169954c1/20240426_145712.jpg Student Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/e731aa49-ca34-483c-b65d-4d6be48db7b2/20240426_145735+-+Copy.jpg Student Works Roxanne Guerra: Koi Pond Pump Housing project, Spray paint; garden gnomes; reflective foil, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/9df70735-74f0-4e96-8868-8301e0c43db9/20240614_135347+-+Copy.jpg Student Works Assignment: God. Part of the student exhibition "Bootcamp: An Immersive Experience in Contemporary Art," BIG Arts, Sanibel Island, FL, June 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/856e0d9f-e806-4281-a6c0-9351ce66743f/20241202_161717.jpg Student Works Rose draws all the time, travels by bus. This man engaged in talking politics. Rose did not talk back, but drew the man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/39a1cd7c-e322-4b37-92bd-dd12eb6d4787/20250717_152814.jpg Student Works Personal Belongings, an installation by Juliana Dominguez as art of the exhibition "Help! Generational Anxiety Facing the Big, Bad, Predatory World" at the Alliance for the Arts, Summer 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/c25b9767-b84b-4e16-a61f-e7e04f67a250/20250702_144728.jpg Student Works "Help! Generational Anxiety Facing the Big, Bad, Predatory World" Installation view. Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, 2025 https://www.berryvanboekel.com/home-5 daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/d11ebb88-61b5-4557-8031-738e62c40978/Tayler-Moser.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/0f7e1dcc-6535-4115-bad4-9369187a4dc1/Quispe-Cohen.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/792f4614-9807-43bf-b78e-e2cf3b4a1557/Sivugun-Nunana.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/61e025fe-568d-4eff-bcfb-9cf9be95efb4/Babinga.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/22430bf5-5a2d-4d0a-8885-a1cb00480e8f/ligeti.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/0ce5353d-1360-4982-895d-843600979942/Congo.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/806f6404-3ecc-4f79-bba9-b229b3abafb7/3.Amazon.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/d11ebb88-61b5-4557-8031-738e62c40978/Tayler-Moser.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Donald Tayler/Brian Moser, oil and wildflowers on canvas, 11"x14", 2022. Tayler and Moser were adventurers in their twenties when they first visited the Tukana people near the Piraparana River in Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/1b128f6a-f04f-4d7d-843e-d70af42f64dd/ligeti+%281%29.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2012: Two paintings of György Ligeti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/8aa2f837-130f-420e-a50f-3ce5d134e431/3.Amazon.jpg Top 100 Amazon group, oil and charcoal on canvas, approx. 24"x36", c. 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/4d9e64d5-13a8-41e3-88e4-61a410c72387/ligeti.jpg Top 100 Les Siècles Live: György Ligeti, 12 x 12 cm, CD cover, Musicales Actes Sud, 2016. I was very excited when a record company wanted to use an image of a painting by Ligeti I did. It's a beautiful cd too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/408b108a-e746-40e5-9ad1-22b4d4eeb561/coltrane6.jpeg Top 100 John Coltrane, xerox on paper, from original charcoal drawing, A5 paper, c. 1992. In the early 90s drawings were copied and pasted into a book. Many originals are lost, but I do have many of the xerox copies still. I did not consider these as art back then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/12c22e09-f55b-4bde-b09d-e77f3c6e3f1e/100layout2.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2018: Page from the e-zine, digital, 2019. I always used to make small books to accompany the top 100s featuring thumbnails of all paintings and the exhibition wall labels, but since the mid 2010s these books were produced just digitally. Here's an example from the Top 100 2018. Click on the image to view the whole e-zine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/0ce5353d-1360-4982-895d-843600979942/Congo.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2011: N'Goundi girls, 24" x 18", oil on canvas, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/741580c3-aaf4-4597-bcf5-54c390eaf6a0/moody.jpeg Top 100 J.J. Johnson, ink and watercolor on paper, 5.5"x8.5", c. 1995. Between 1993 and 1997 all images were created on half of a standard US paper size. From 1990-1993 this was done on A5 paper, half of a standard A4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/74fd362e-5a47-4838-8d6d-c696311fc99f/Shaman-Tuva.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2017: Tuvan Shaman in full regalia 18 x 9.75 inches, oil on wood, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/920a6bc9-22db-4ee5-9370-6b45830c5bf2/backyard2.jpg Top 100 A selection of backyard paintings before they became Top 100 paintings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/37797172-ff5b-491b-a07d-c393b365ac43/Lil+Armstrong.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2000: Lil Armstrong, 4.75" x 20", oil and collage on wood, 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/26fbadbe-2a2f-4723-93bb-48f8a5c6ea99/coltrane.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2017: John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, 20 x 16 inches, oil on canvas, 2017. A photograph by F. Winham I've used over and over again, to illustrate the tune "My Favorite Things" (which returned to the top 100 countless times.) Sometimes I cropped it to just Coltrane, sometimes I included Pharoa Sanders, other times I used the full photo and painted the full combo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/8d0fdb8b-b53b-4949-a10e-133e56bfbccd/15.Shaman.jpeg Top 100 Top 100 2011, #15: Chukchi Shaman, 8.5" x 6.5", oil on wood, 2011. This Chukchi shaman of Arctic Siberia may well have a similar genetic code as Billie Bowlegs, the Seminole after whom the creek was named behind my studio, and who might have very well been sitting once at the very spot as where I placed the shaman in the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/8390a9ab-0e5c-460e-84a4-074a8f723514/Jad-Fair.jpeg Top 100 Top 100 2001: Jad Fair, 9"x5", ink on luan, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/aa515997-0b48-4129-918d-5771adf7a89e/Anjali.JPG Top 100 Top 100 2016: Anjali, oppari singer in Ayodhyakuppam, Chennai. Oil on canvas, 24 x 12 inches, 2016. For many years I have collected examples of cry singing. Known as keening in Ireland, the tradition of cry singing, as a mourning ritual at funerals, was once widespread. The cry singing tradition in Chennai, India is called oppari and is still widely practiced among the fisherman caste of the Tamil population. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/f5e782a5-2d6a-4635-8dcb-db1e7fd835f0/62LaverBariu.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2011, #62: Laver Bariu, 12" x 12", oil on luan, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/d564f694-3d40-42b7-bf71-4bf0ba125d73/6.Ghana_Self.JPG Top 100 Ghana/self, oil on paper, 24"x18", c. 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/72a39966-6998-4b15-9d0d-fece9267bbc3/13_14%2C3.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2013/14. One page from the e-zine. Click on the image to view them all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/4afa9a82-6fe7-4dd4-b3df-5ddf14bca7c8/66balistreri.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2011, #66: Rosa Balistreri, 24" x 12", oil on luan, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/505fb229-c76f-47e4-a404-e7a741c3bfca/9.joeandodell.jpg Top 100 Joe and Odell Thompson, c. 9"x9", oil on wood, c. 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/f2717bc0-6682-42b3-8749-65460b4badb1/orpheus.JPG Top 100 Top 100 2013: Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn as Orpheus and Eurydice, 11" x 14", oil on canvas board, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/7c21a27f-6560-4a36-9f0e-37603c76f6f7/dufrene.JPG Top 100 Top 100 2013: François Dufrêne, pastel on board, 2013, 14" x 6". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/c714ed65-8f42-475b-9fbb-7236baa63421/67bocet.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2011, #67: Bocet: Lament for a dead father, Romania, 12" x 12", oil on luan, 2012. It's all happening in my back yard. Musicians have been visiting from all over the world. I had Bob Marley over to play soccer, some girls from Borneo to prepare rice. I had live music, there's been naked people, Muslim women that only showed their eyes, Siberian people dressed to withstand extreme (cold) temperatures, cannibals, and pacifists, and now there's a funeral going on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/acf83b9a-946e-4410-a712-ce605ef38e3e/P1010001.JPG Top 100 A rather large painting on canvas. I can't remember who I painted other than that they depict a group of African women. The reason the Top 100 Archive opened, was to catalogue all the works and organize them. I still have this painting but it has been damaged during the flooding in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/34cc6bd6-f5b2-48fd-ae41-eff9da096ef5/Sivugun-Nunana.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020, #36: Sivugun und Nunana, 11x14 inches, colored ballpoint pens on paper, 2020. The above drawing was completed over the course of four days, incessantly scribbling my way through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/38777789-6801-48ba-bce6-ce8e8f2832b2/25Bolivia.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2012: Cover image from Instruments and Music of Bolivia, 18" x 24", oil on canvas, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/6558d337-4932-4fd7-af5a-8253435d6689/Hamilton.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2009: Chico Hamilton. acrylic on paper, 11"x8.5", 2009. A number of paintings from the Top 100 2009 were created as letters addressed to friends. Only a few of them were actually sent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/93d3da43-a594-40d7-9218-d6d36a379a77/Quispe-Cohen.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2021, #9: Andrea Quispe Chura/John Cohen, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2021. Perhaps the most striking painting to illustrate the juxtaposition between the object and subject concept, is this Peruvian Q'ero woman who was photographed by John Cohen in 1977. Both portraits were sourced from Cohen's book "There is No Eye." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/e82c0def-231c-44d8-8e94-3b537a6da728/yekuana.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020, #4: Ye'kuana ceremonial dance, 14 x 11 inches, stencil and pencils on paper, 2020. I used stencils for various parts of the drawing, with the idea that I could create multiples. I made an edition of five originals of this dancer from Venezuela. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/769867dd-901d-4e02-8324-ca578e649a54/Babinga.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: Babinga Ceremony, 14 x 11 inches, oil and spray paint on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/3c968a39-10f0-4d61-b723-afec6f89515a/buzzcocks.JPG Top 100 Top 100 2015: The Buzzcocks, 14" x 20", oil on found canvas, 2015. For the Top 100 2015 I set out to use found paintings as a background. This painting was given to me by its maker whose name I forgot. I hope she'd approve of the Buzzcocks as an addition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/4d97817f-d8f6-4e9b-8935-34ed01e6f5ff/roro2.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2012: Roro Girl, 24" x 12", oil on luan, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ec723fd8-a902-430b-b27d-07e07ba238a2/catanimal.JPG Top 100 Cat Power, oil on wood, c. 10"x10", c. 2005. Early Cat Power painting of the musician I have painted more than anyone else, perhaps 65 or 70 times. Click on the image to see those I've painted since 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/3f7859a9-b14b-4fb5-a805-106f54128574/Don%26Mori-Cherry.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Don & Mori Cherry, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2022. The colors for most painting in the 2022 series were chosen using a random color generator. 'Aluminum grey' and 'turquoise blue' came from a generator of hundreds of named colors. Later I switched to a generator that would pick from millions of colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/6b4561ec-1f03-41c1-a0dd-bfc6ef742a88/Aretz-Ramon.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2021, #3: Isabel Aretz/Dan Ramon, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2021. In the collection "The Human Voice in Music" compiled by Carlos Reynoso, he states: "For those who wish to form an idea that is not biased by the temptation of exoticism or by anachronistic yearnings, the collection starts here." I had to remind myself these words painting the series over and over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/a5613316-3f9a-495f-8e6c-6d9937088ac4/Yekuana-medicine-woman.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020, #41: Medicine Woman of the Yekuana People (from Los juegos de la Yekuana), various materials on paper, 14"x11", 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/d106aea1-2783-4e85-97ff-e4085879e777/Malo.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: Malo Ceremonial Dance, 14 x 11 inches, oil and spray paint on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/25d7c638-c559-4473-bbbe-b34d3d27b66a/92-Cave.jpg Top 100 The 100 Greatest Recordings Ever: #92, Nick Cave, watercolor and pen on paper, 11"x8.5", 2012. To celebrate 30 years of Top 100, a series was made following the best of list compiled over those 30 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/70513029-1525-462b-8a6e-128a1dc362f1/floyd.jpg Top 100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/78a8c090-1c4c-4024-a40c-7f0dba979753/Varese-LeCorbussier.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Edgard Varese/Le Corbussier, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2023. Empathy is the key in producing these portraits. I didn't like Le Corbussier from the moment I painted him. I totally respect his work but there I could not make him appear sympathetic on canvas. There's a lot of nationalism and antisemitism in the early 20th century avant-garde. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/154a888b-f213-4a6e-afd7-9c2e7ca7c271/Zemp-Seso.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2021, #19: Hugo Zemp/Sabina Seso, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/c011647f-417b-4233-a551-070f547e0444/narh.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020: Melakhan Langa, narh flute. 11x14 inches, pencil, watercolor, flowers on paper, 2020. I felt the need to not only make a meticulously detailed portrait of a musician but also to add flowers to it in a typical low-art-household-watercolor fashion. The wildflowers in our yard give me great joy and before I set out to photograph my drawing I decided to stick some actual flowers to the surface. The result represents for me more than any other the spirit of COVID-19. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/d3e067d5-e402-486e-bbe9-ad2b0ef913e0/Garifuna.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: Garifuna Settlement Day Festival, 14 x 11 inches, oil/mixed media on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/a4549ee8-f183-4a9a-b85e-b5ab78f95318/Martinez-Shuar.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Rosalia Martinez/Shuar woman (after Luzuy), 11"x14", oil on canvas, 2023. Every so often, every 30 or 40 paintings, I feel like I'm painting someone I know personally. Rosalia Martinez always was this student I had in a drawing class some years ago. Souls then must multiply, so I thought. Doing the math I concluded that there are about 400.000 souls in the universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/bd5831d4-799c-4366-a414-81e20d9bdf01/Arom.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2021, #36: Simha Arom/Baka child at the Aba encampment, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2021. As an experiment I divided up the canvas into four equal parts that I then painted a certain color. I then painted the portraits on top of the color fields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/5d076920-0d69-4dc9-b67c-581c643204e2/tangkul.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020: Tangkhul Great Story Teller, 14x11 inches, various materials on paper, 2020. An old black and white photo from Nagaland was used here. The background shows skulls of ovine mounted to the side of a building, in photographs yet older the cattle skulls are human skulls. Blood sacrifice was important in Tangkhul ritual. The great story of the title not only references the Great Story Teller depicted but also the fact that no one has died (yet) of COVID-19 in Nagaland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/a71996e9-c287-468a-8b1a-9efa7379b437/Mbizweni.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: Nowayilethi Mbizweni, 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/8acd1d37-fb41-4edf-92ac-37f9823ed95d/Heth-Figueroa.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Charlotte Heth/Aileen Figueroa, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2022. In the blog "The Top 100" I sometimes write on the paintings I just finished, while other times I reflect on related topics in art, culture, and life. In the image depicting two Native Californians, I reflected on the nature of Photography, click on the image to read. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/d3fff34e-1692-418a-9ec9-94fddde05df3/Abelam-Hauser.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2021, #7: Cover image of: The Abelam/Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2021. Nggwal Mindsha is a ceremonial song by the Abelam of Papua New Guinea . In the commentaries it is argued that songs like these should not be considered music because there is no entertainment value and that songs like these can't be separated from, in this case, the architecture they are dedicated to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/df70b648-d0b0-4821-805b-f51e2e60a834/topoke.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020: Topoke Girl Playing Lilolo. 14x11 inches, pencil, pen, watercolor on paper, 2020. Click on the image and you'll find a the step by step video of how this drawing came about. No need to write any information here as it's discussed in the video at length. It's one hour but really cool! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/5399c2f3-1705-41a2-bb9a-45ec6306a36b/Bapende-chief.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: Bapende Chief, 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/83640b9f-8ed4-41ba-8dce-993e8c4f6a48/Airto-Purim.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Airto/Flora Purim, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2023. With the portraits of the Brazilian husband and wife musicians Airto and Flora Purim, I placed portraiture in a historical context. The title of the post on the Top 100 was: "Woman with a Pearl Necklace." For a while I used liquin in these portraits, allowing me paint the sweat and tears of the figures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/399c303e-6b8a-428f-812d-980422b96a90/Dayak-Kunst.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2021, #50: Studio portret van een Dajak vrouw uit Borneo/Jaap Kunst, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2021. The Dutch musicologist Jaap Kunst coined the term ethnomusicology. He became curator of the Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam. On the right is a portrait of Kunst blowing a conch shell and on the left a Dayak woman with a drum from a photograph from the Tropenmuseum collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/a7b4e63c-1a39-4be8-adf5-07f74d4a2586/Balint.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020, #55: Anna Balint, pen, pencil, and watercolor on paper, 14"x11", 2021. Behind Anna Balint Puskas, appears a penciled image of Zoltan Kallos, who had recorded her in the field in Romania. The concept of the juxtaposition of recorder and recorded, that became the theme for 2021, first appeared in this drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/76c1ee0b-ac7f-4978-8190-f8f1ff760f42/Princess-Magogo.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: Princess Constance Magogo kaDinuzulu , 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/84f277a0-9f95-4648-87f6-407c3bbcd1f1/simonovitch-revert.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Konstantin Simonovitch/Abbé Jean Revert, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2023. An influence seeing Renaissance paintings was the use of complementary colors as a ground before applying the final color. I kind of knew about but never experimented with it, until the above painting relating to music by Iannis Xenakis. The painting clearly does not have a finished look but I decided it had to be this way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/b6cfb226-9380-4d89-956f-739a3655be1d/Gabrys-Xenakis.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2021, #70: Aleksander Gabrys/Iannis Xenakis, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2021. For classical music I juxtaposed performer and composer for the double portrait series. I can't believe how much grey hair I painted for these series. I too, for that matter, am getting grey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/23b29d71-2514-4738-ab6e-aaebe0ecdea8/Babinga.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020: #56: Babinga woman performing "yeli", 14"x11", pen, pencil and watercolor on paper, 2021. Directly after Balint, I drew a Babinga woman and Andre Didier, who recorded her. I wrote: I think it will be interesting to portray these musicians, mostly women, next to a portrait of the recorder, who is mostly a white middle-aged male European. These are not intended to become criticism for an attitude of neocolonialism but rather an honest juxtaposition of subject and object. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/7819ceb3-bb72-4066-8b2b-1efa5cedccdc/Didier.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: André Didier, 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/43669a17-3845-4b1b-bc9e-33f5ac64e24c/Breuker-Branca-Alexander.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Willem Breuker/Glenn Branca/LaMonte Young, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2023. At the end I added a couple of triple portraits to the doubles. Breuker, Branca, and Young, numbers 13, 16, and 17 in the list of musicians for the year 2022. None are in the Top 100 (but all have been painted before.) Lots of negative space that begs for writing. I will sign it but I'll leave the writing to someone else. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/caef007a-9832-40df-a4ba-7e5cd066c320/Aaresi+and+Il%27aresi.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020, 67: Aaresi and Il'aresi, ink on paper, 11x14 inches, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/6fd436c3-4b2d-447f-b072-db8004149d40/Aborigine.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: From the cover of Aboriginal Music from Australia, 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/baa74f53-3010-4cd6-b889-e9e5737a4cc6/Rune-Osterberg.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Eva Rune/Jennie Tiderman Österberg, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/97720732-a352-4911-9a70-97d4e4bd1c43/Mani+mask.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2020, #100: Entrance of the Mani Mask, 11"x14", ink on paper, 2021. The last one for the series consisted of a collection of individuals, in a way how I would often draw thoughtlessly with images in front of me. The style was further used in a series of zines that were produced in 2021 and 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/7ea7ba3a-a950-4164-bb72-c2bac83c3807/Khongorzul.JPG Top 100 Top 100 2019: Ganbaararyn Khongorzul, 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/cd3cdd07-658e-47ee-893c-ff168a557dfc/Cebus-and-spider-monkey.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2022: Cebus and spider monkey from the Amazon Rainforest, oil on canvas, 11"x14", 2023. Are animal sounds music? Are animal imitations music? Are human imitations of animal sounds more music than that of the animals themselves? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/f7a4efb0-4aa9-47d5-8c77-eb44aca57cb4/Kraus.jpg Top 100 Top 100 2019: Barbara Kraus (as Aloise Schinkenmaier), 14 x 11 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ba18bc94-2c15-465d-a16c-a597053cc5db/Kurakowa.JPG Top 100 Top 100 2019: Kiyo Kurokawa, 14 x 11 inches, oil on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/9fe162a9-5c2f-4fbb-86de-f26ce037aa42/Skalgyna.JPG Top 100 Top 100 2019: Antonia Vasil'evna Skalygina?, 14 x 11 inches, oil and metallic on canvas, 2019. https://www.berryvanboekel.com/home-h8248 daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/7667eb69-4580-4e5d-9e6d-1485c517b8d7/selfie120.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/b24714ba-7906-4965-ac73-4d381d485bbe/1988.jpg Drawings Two pages from a 100 page A4 sketchbook, intuitively anticipating new trends in Drawing. Blue ballpoint pen on paper, 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/f472db43-8fd5-4357-8232-b38a30082dd9/Annapurna.jpg Drawings View of Annapurna, A1, watercolor on paper, 1991. I did not bring a camera when I visited Nepal and India in 1991, just some sketchbooks and paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/10db365d-3981-45a3-ace2-179284292c8d/simone3.jpeg Drawings Nina Simone, ink on paper, 12x20 cm, c. 1986. Early portraits of musicians anticipating the Top 100 illustrations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/7667eb69-4580-4e5d-9e6d-1485c517b8d7/selfie120.jpg Drawings Donna Summer-Selfie, pen and ink on paper, 8.5"x5.5", 2017. There were several side projects to the Top 100. The funniest one is a large series of pen drawings in which I insert myself into known record sleeves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/66c7cdef-2700-446f-9c34-4be8836cab59/Tirudel-Zenebe.jpg Drawings Tirudel Zenebe, pen on paper, A5, 2022. To concerts, I bring a sketchbook. This one was made during Music Fest in Nijmegen, NL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/753e3360-b8e2-4fa4-a3be-60a12c646a0a/T-Model+Ford.jpg Drawings Top 100 2009: T-Model Ford, 10"x18", pencil on paper, 2009, signed by the musician. Drawn from a live performance in Ohio. After the concert I walked up to him to and asked him to sign the drawing. He did, and I realized then that he probably never learned how to write. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/94e2857e-b07e-4007-9234-a8ac68638d3f/Trobrianders.jpg Drawings Page from the zine "The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea", in which all the images from the book by Annette Weiner are redrawn. Zine, 16 photocopied pages, 8.5"x5.5" each, 2022, edition of 5, with unique colored hand-stenciled covers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/e7a6ccb6-2e91-416c-8a05-95c9aa1bb481/scrapbook-1.jpg Drawings Among the books I recreated in 2022 is my own scrapbook with portraits of intriguing people that I compiled in the mid-80s. Roald Amundsen, Franz Shubert, Cathy Berberian, are among the portraits on this page. 8.5"x5.5", ballpoint on paper, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/dcfc52c5-f324-4808-8c2e-e1c065d1d7f0/jack-scott.JPG Drawings Little Jack Scott, oil on paper, A4, c. 1989 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/87e7211e-2b56-44d5-bcd7-6498205bfd75/dac1.jpg Drawings Flyer from the Art Institute of San Francisco featuring: David Allen Coe, 5" x 6", ink and pencil on paper, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ea338bc9-9b7b-46bb-8711-fa69807924b3/hildegard027.jpg Drawings Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen, 7" x 7.5", watercolor on paper, 2015. In 2015 I wrote a textbook for an Art Appreciation course, "You Are an Artist." A lot of illustrations were drawn by hand, but it never was published. https://www.berryvanboekel.com/home-sfrnt daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/2ca81450-e857-4eb6-9b8e-603f7d1947f3/mia6.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/1702213671120-XK6UAWN8AD662MZOL77V/IMG_2890.jpg Prints Untitled, 10.5"x36", etch on paper, ed. 6, 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/1702213699239-8T52BE2W3KQXTFU5027S/presidents.jpg Prints Presidents of the United States, 12"x36", etch on paper, ed. 10, 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/78651715-5c4f-4249-b495-350471d480fb/mia6.jpeg Prints M.I.A., stencil print on paper, 45/53, 6.5" x 6", 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ead5a2e2-54c6-4b95-b46a-110267956c43/gonzalez.JPG Prints Patricia Gonzalez, 17" x 14", monotype, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/9fd35da3-a70a-456d-b035-dfc86846edbc/lucier%281%29.JPG Prints Alvin Lucier (signed by Alvin Lucier) 15 x 7.5 inches, stencil, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/0ca70ca9-5ccf-4039-b38e-f30ae2e03f59/trobriand.jpeg Prints The Trobraianders of Papua New Guinea, cover of zine, 8.5x5.5", stencilprint, 2022. The zine was published only in an edition of five. Each one with a unique print in a different color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/1f831ef4-6481-4e2a-b61a-b7f10d006bed/sun-ra.jpeg Prints Sun Ra (from Top 100 2020), 14"x11", stencil on paper, 2021, artist proof, edition 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ba329880-bde7-404d-81a9-f35e3b4834c1/wiedlin.jpg Prints Jane Wiedlin, 14 x 11 inches, stencil print on paper, ed. 52, 2020. After watching a fantastic concert of Go Go's classics at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery earlier this year I chose Jane Wiedlin as subject to trading prints with students. Jane is being sent one too and so is the artist Beatriz Monteavaro who sat in on drums. I met them both and got a high five from Jane Wiedlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/166d812e-bc1e-4012-91d7-e360196005af/cardib241.jpg Prints Cardi B (Top 100 2018), 8 x 8 inches, stencil on paper, ed. 43, 2018. Another round of teaching art appreciation, another round of stencils to trade with students. I choose popular musicians to trade with them and for this session I picked Cardi B. I like to double the stencil assignment with a top 100 entry and so I set out to listen to a bunch of her songs to nominate one for this year's list. https://www.berryvanboekel.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://www.berryvanboekel.com/videos daily 0.75 2024-01-03 https://www.berryvanboekel.com/currently daily 0.75 2024-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/dcdebadd-cfa5-4400-a1a1-4c5e06c8cad2/fullsizeoutput_1140.jpeg Currently Campa-8, 13x13, mixed media on drywall, 2024. One of series of paintings using the same stencil (belonging to the #1 from the Top 100 2023) of a Campa Indian from Peru. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/38c9c15f-e417-4f3a-97b5-081e7e7b58c8/fullsizeoutput_1141.jpeg Currently Campa-9, 12x12, mixed media on drywall. 2024. Another from the same series in which I expanded, and departed, from the focus on illustrating the Top 100. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/ed068a63-e8a6-4b10-8546-45d0a7b08c41/fullsizeoutput_1142.jpeg Currently Untitled, 20x32 inches, oil on found canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6525898a9dac4e6477d89997/b2dc8643-0f7b-4767-b561-8ebf8bddc98f/fullsizeoutput_113d.jpeg Currently !K (2), 40x30 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2016/2024. 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