Hurricane Patricia became the strongest storm ever measured on the planet early Friday, with experts warning it could trigger 40-foot waves along Mexico's coast and "life-threatening" flash flooding.
Several million residents were told to prepare for the "worst-case scenario" as Patricia was expected to race ashore on Mexico's Pacific coast late Friday afternoon or early evening. The tourist magnets of Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo were directly in the Category 5 storm's projected path.
Alaska and British Columbia are on alert to receive a very unusual dose of tropical weather: the remains of Hurricane Oho, which are on track to hurtle into the Alaska Panhandle on Friday evening. Oho completed the transition from a hurricane to an extratropical storm with 70 mph winds on Thursday morning, and after short period of weakening, is expected to interact with a powerful jet stream over the Gulf of Alaska and intensify on Friday afternoon off the coast of Alaska into a powerful 960 mb low pressure system with near-hurricane-force winds and heavy rain. A High Wind Warning is up for Sitka, Alaska for sustained winds of 40 to 55 mph with gusts of 65 to 75 mph on Friday. Sustained winds of 70 mph--just below hurricane-force--accompanied by 26-foot seas are expected over the offshore waters of the Alaska Panhandle from Cape Decision to Clarence Strait.
What's going on? Well, record-warm sea surface temperatures near the Hawaiian Islands the past two years have helped fuel highly unusual tropical cyclone activity in the waters surrounding the islands. The warmest water temperatures surrounding Hawaii are usually just below the threshold where a tropical cyclone can form and maintain itself, 26°C (79°F.) Water temperatures in these waters have been 27 - 28°C in much of the summer of 2014 and 2015, and that extra bump in temperature has pushed the Central Pacific past a threshold which allows more tropical storms and hurricane to form.
My work has been selected for this show at the Encaustic Art Institute in Santa Fe, NM. The show runs from October 3-31, 2015.
Bruce Helander was the Juror. Helander is an artist, curator and the former Editor-in-Chief of The Art Economist magazine who has written extensively on contemporary art and is a regular featured columnist for the Huffington Post. Highly regarded as a juror for art and museum competitions, he has served for the Philadelphia Museum and other leading institutions. He also serves as a consultant to several art fairs, including the LA Art Show.
I am so happy to announce I have been invited into the Phoenix Gallery as an Associate Member for 2016. Phoenix was established in 1958 and is located in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City. I am looking forward to showing my work with the other Associate Artists in February 2016. The gallery's address is 548 West 28th St., Suite 528, NYC with hours 11:30 - 6:00 Tues - Sat.
My painting "Close Encounter" won this prize in the 4th Showcase Painting category.
July 1, 2015 - October 2016
Fascinating exhibit at the Smithsonian Libraries Gallery in the American History Museum, Washington, DC. Detailed online exhibit at the source link below.
Travel with us to the surface of the moon, the center of the earth, and the depths of the ocean—to the fantastic worlds of fiction inspired by 19th-century discovery and invention. This exhibition explores the intersecting influences of science, innovation, industry, and the Victorian creative imagination through books from the Smithsonian Libraries and selected historical objects from Smithsonian museums.
Leonid meteor shower over Niagara Falls
Illustration from Edmund Weiss, Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt
[Image atlas of the star world], Stuttgart, 1892
I will have three paintings in this exhibit which is part of the Wellness Walls for Art Program. The show will run from July 6 - October 2, 2015. The University Medical Center is located on the campus of the University of Alabama at 850 5th Ave E, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401.
Avalon (detail)
My painting "The Heart of the Spring" has been selected for the exhibition "Yeats, Poetry and Place" at The Hyde Bridge Gallery in Sligo, Ireland. The gallery is located in the Yeats Memorial Building and is celebrating the 150th birthday of their native son William Butler Yeats. The following is a passage from his short story "The Heart of the Spring" that inspired my work.
It was one of those warm, beautiful nights when everything seems carved of precious stones. Sleuth Wood away to the south looked as though cut out of green beryl, and the waters that mirrored them shone like pale opal. The roses he was gathering were like glowing rubies, and the lilies had the dull lustre of pearl.
March 27, 2015 - Opening Reception at 632 Agua Fria Street (Railyard Arts District), Santa Fe, NM 87501. There are multiple gallery spaces inside this beautiful building.
Once again three of my photographic works will be available as prizes in the fundraiser for Gateway, Birmingham's oldest social service agency established in 1891. The event will take place April 23, 2015, 6:00-8:00 pm, Rosewood Hall at Soho Square, Homewood.
