Curing Cancer One Masterpiece at a Time!™

“I don't have any strategy or program for making art or being an artist. It's a matter of making something out of nothing." That Ernest Frasier quote captures my spirit, too - art is an act of spontaneous invention unbound (mostly) by preconception. Unlike conceptualist's meticulous compositions or marketing plans, the "action painter" impulse emerges from the unconscious. We channel dreams to the canvas in the moment.

Of course artistic ideals met economic reality when I became an Assistant Director of Admissions after graduation. My meager salary barely covered debts, much less art purchases. Yet I had to possess Frasier’s scintillating collage on exhibit in a Kingston, New York gallery. When I explained my situation, the gallery owner somehow persuaded Ernest to lower the price for a poor fellow collagist. 

As we see with his Whitney and Brooklyn Museum acclaim, Frasier’s work lives at the pinnacle of invention. Art can fearlessly unleash all that stirs below. Frasier, a former special forces Marine, created art as a way of cleaning his brain to lift a Talking Heads lyric. Stay untethered and alive in the imagination’s realm. The rest unfolds in time. I owe that timeless lesson to a selfless master who “made something out of nothing."