by Gary | Mar 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Stephen Bauman. Oil. Isn’t she adorable? This is a stage in the process of the painting, and I think Stephen decided to remove the bird on her shoulder, which breaks my heart. Know when to stop. Stephen is an amazing artist who studied classical techniques in an...
by Gary | Mar 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Degrees of separation. I was in Europe in the late 1980s and bumped into the actor Donald Sutherland while standing in a queue at a ticket counter at the Orly airport in Paris. One of his best known roles was that of Vernon Pinkley in the 1967 film adaptation of the...
by Gary | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
At Little Rock Catholic High School, in Father Tribou’s English Literature class, we were expected to memorize and recite Hamlet’s soliloquy, to perform it before our fellow students. “To be, or not to be…” I can hear it in my head to...
by Gary | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
2010. I stewed over this one, then hit on the idea of the planation colonnade serving as the prison bars of grief, anger and alcohol behind which Brick has locked himself. In the earlier days of my tenure with The Rep, we would work up the posters as the season...
by Gary | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Another theatre poster I made during The Rep’s 2007-8 season. The run dates had not been settled at the time of this proof. You who are familiar with Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables” will recognize the imagery. Jean has stolen the Bishop’s...
by Gary | Mar 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
My poster for Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s 2009 production of “The Elephant Man,” staged at Wildwood Park. I remember struggling with how to suggest the protagonist’s disfigurement without depicting it explicitly. I wanted to picture him as a...
