Dryocopus pileatus, by Lennox Madigan

my first commissioned Private Performance Art Painting

Dear Associates,

I just completed and shipped my first commissioned painting! It was an interesting challenge to make a painting for its own sake. Most of the visual art that I make is for something, a backdrop for a performance, or art for a newsletter, or images for a website. Partway through the struggle of making art for no purpose, I realized I coul…