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Overman & Senn

Glenn Overman writes from the heart of the Bozarts, near South Georgia's largest city, J-action-ville, FLA. He likes to write and he thinks about stuff way too much. He doesn't share much personal information not because he doesn't like or trust you personally, but because some of those people reading over your shoulder are just whacked. Oscar Senn has been painting since second grade. He has always worked in oils. His fine art ranges from large format Western and Florida landscapes to works that explore the spiritual side of childhood and common American life. Loose and abstract at the surface, landscapes and waterscapes can appear alluringly photographic from a distance. His figural paintings evoke a poignant narrative moment in the life of souls. He was educated at Ringling School of Art in Sarasota Florida. He has worked as a newspaper illustrator in Florida and an advertising Art Director in both Florida and California. His work has been included in Communication Arts magazine’s Illustration Annual and honored by the New York Art Director's Show. As a fine artist, he is represented in Los Angeles by Couturier Gallery on La Brea and Fairfax Gallery in Ponte Vedra, Florida. His work is featured in collections all over the country. Mr. Senn has designed toys, TV commercials, posters, logos, and annual reports. He currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida with a dog, two cats, and a turtle. The reason I paint

Almost surely, the first prayer was offered deep in the earth, by firelight, before an ochre outline of a buffalo. Painters have been priests ever since. This is not overstatement. Art is one of the last sources of wonder for modern people. I offer these paintings as windows onto something indefinable – a magical act of creation that can make the corner of a home into a refuge, a place of domestic pilgrimage. It’s the best thing I can do.

Number of posts: 16
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by Overman & Senn | 0, Add your Comment | Mar 20, 2012

The Grim Joker's Meet Dreyfuss

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by Overman & Senn | 0, Add your Comment | Mar 17, 2012

The Grim Joker's All you can eat

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by Overman & Senn | 0, Add your Comment | Mar 14, 2012

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by Overman & Senn | 0, Add your Comment | Mar 12, 2012

The Grim Joker's Road Kill

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by Overman & Senn | 0, Add your Comment | Mar 11, 2012

The Grim Joker's Designated Driver

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by Overman & Senn | 0, Add your Comment | Feb 27, 2012

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by Overman & Senn | 0, Add your Comment | Feb 26, 2012

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Scandalicious

My beloved colleagues in Teh Media sure get on my last damn nerve. Most of the time it's just from sloppy work or jumping on whatever bandwagon is rolling by at the time, something along the lines of a pet peeve. Like when my Twitter list of political reporters blows up with some hashtag meme instead of actual reporting. Today it's #Obamacareinthreewords, launched by that icon of credibility, Rep. Darrell Issa. It's the second time around for that one -- Rep. Kevin McCarthy launched it the first time last June. (@WhiteHouse even got in on it, tweeting "It's.The.Law." Republicans responded with "arrogance Read on →

Interpreting at the Free Clinic

I had an interesting morning yesterday at the Free Clinic. Once a week I’m a Spanish interpreter in an organization supported by over 400 volunteers who give a few hours a week of their particular expertise in a smoothly run team. We cater for patients with chronic conditions needing regular medication, having no access to health insurance. Yesterday we met a new patient who is deaf and mute since birth. We took her through her eligibility interview with a social worker, then a nurse took her health history, followed by a doctor's consultation and a laboratory test. In the seven years I Read on →

Evil In A Demon Haunted World

I still remember attending a logic class when the university reopened a week following the assassination of President Kennedy. The angry graduate student instructor that I had been assigned to was part of a team that tried to clarify to a bunch of undergrads what the wild eyed and mostly incomprehensible professor had lectured about earlier in the week. As we gathered for the first time, still more than a bit dazed by what had happened in Dallas and without any idea how the act would ultimately change all our lives, he glared out at us and asked, “Now do y Read on →

Summer Sensations

Last Thursday, just before I took my daily two-mile run/walk hunger struck. A few bites of watermelon did the trick. When I bit into that cold sweet watermelon a flood of summer memories rushed in. I recalled the great tastes of summer and with those memories came warm images of youth in the Georgia countryside. I saw stacks of dark green, striped watermelons, red, ripe tomatoes, and heard the beautiful grinding of a hand-cranked ice cream churn. Recalling the great tastes of summer I thought will make a good column. I created a document and titled it “The Tastes of Summer.” I’m Read on →

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