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I thought women were, like, afraid of snakes and slimy things like that, so what’s up with this? I cruise into our garden and there is my lady chatting with this serpent. So I said, “Whoa, babe, what’s up with Mr. Snakester?” “Don’t worry, dude,” she says, “It’s just a garden snake. It’s not, like,…
This is “Mandala Citrus Sensation” 48×48″, oil/canvas, c2017 Ken Delmar, one of the new works viewable at my home art show at 31 Gurley Road, Stamford, CT 06902 on Saturday, September 9, from 3:00 to 6:00 PM, rain or shine. If you follow or visit my website you are invited. I have built 12 large…
This young gull dared to land on the roof of one of the buildings owned by Linda Bean of the LL Bean retail empire. Linda bought the general store in Port Clyde, Maine, a lobster business, and several other residential properties. She has taken a substantial position in the waterfront town. This seagull is okay…
Fizz was a dancer. She was tall and buff and had WWII pin-up legs and big brown eyes borrowed from a fawn, and fire-engine red lips that were almost as expressive as her eyes. I saw her only once when I was walking on Park Avenue with my dad’s valet at the corner of 75th…
When I was a little kid in first grade one of the key activities was the art class. It wasn’t much of a class, really, more like semi-organized chaos. Teachers focused mainly on keeping kids from eating paint, hurling it at other students, or spattering it on walls or ceilings. I was holding a brush…
It was somewhere in the Mid-west, like, Iowa or Ohio. East Jesus, just west of Bumblefug. I was shooting film for a public service announcement for the US Army. After the shoot me and this guy from the Army’s PR firm went to a piano bar in the motel. The PR guy got drunk really…
A solo show of Delmar’s recent work was exhibited from June 17 until July 17, 2016 at the Loft Artist Gallery, 575 Pacific Street, Stamford, a block and a half away from the Stamford RR station. The gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00 to 4:30 PM. These new pieces were mostly large works on linen, some triptychs…
Primalism, A Brand New/Ancient Genre In an effort to be more specific than the term “contemporary” about the art I do today I am identifying myself as the practitioner of a new genre: Primalism. Primal art is totally original art created from scratch. Totally original means there is no copying, appropriation, tracing, projecting, re-engineering, sampling,…
I was upstairs in my attic atelier, painting, when the front doorbell sounded. I went downstairs dreading having to deal with a door-to-door salesperson, charity solicitor, or missionary. But, no, it was two women from the Stamford Advocate, who asked me if I was interesting. My daughter was nearby in the family room, and she…