Date: 9/27/2003 Show: Infamous Babes Name: Welton Jones Comments: Your best installation yet, if I do say so! Date: 7/1/2003 Show: Guest Artist - Leonard Knight Name: Sharon Griswold Comments: Bob - Remember the Griswolds? From Sundance, San Diego, and our more recent meeting at the Taylor Library art opening? We finally got a DSL connection and I was able to check out your movies. Congratulations - they're great! My favorite was Date: 6/15/2003 Show: Guest Artist - Leonard Knight Name: sean sullivan Comments: Hi Bob, Try sending that photo again, don't know why it didn't work before, nice to meet you, hope to see you again., Sean Date: 6/6/2003 Show: My Haiku Alphabet Name: wick alexander Comments: Dear Mr. Matheny, I saw in today's paper the blurb about your website,so I took a look at it this morning.It is a superior example of what the internet is best at doing,which is to provide a new method of communicating ideas through images,text and sound.You have succeeded in doing so with a nice balance of humor and irony and depth.Nice work.Thanks. Wick www.wickalexander.com Date: 5/17/2003 Show: Guest Artist - Leonard Knight Name: morris skungle Comments: Thanks you Bob for your efforts in bringing this unique artist/visionary to the Flash Art Gallery. The exhibition gives everyone the opportunity to witness an extraordinary talent who selflessly gives to the world his offering. Next time I'm in Niland I must stop by and congratulate this fantastic individual for his efforts. Morris Date: 5/12/2003 Show: Guest Artist - Leonard Knight Name: pasha Comments: My hot air balloon experiences were trilling but never that inspiring! MAKE ART AND THEY WILL COME Date: 5/12/2003 Show: Guest Artist - Leonard Knight Name: Tyler Comments: As I sit a my desk, I wonder what Leonard accomplishes today. One step at a time, one bale tied to the next and before you know it, out of Slab city sprouts and icon to our spirits. Thanks Leonard. Thanks Bob. Date: 4/21/2003 Show: My Haiku Alphabet Name:  Comments: Almostmaybe; Morris Skungle has a point. However I am having a hard time making it out. Can someone out there help me with his review? Thanks in advance. Ray Bradbury Date: 4/19/2003 Show: My Haiku Alphabet Name: Barbara Toschi Comments: Hi Bob, Just reviewed your Haiku figures--they look familiar--like the video you gave us, Right? Really have enjoyed seeing your art shows like the palettes and the breadboxes. Keep up the work!! Date: 4/17/2003 Show: Palettes-Series 5 Name: morris skungle Comments: The time is right to review the work of almost anonymous’ palettes and their influence on the world of art and cultural ambiguities that exist there. I am struck immediately by the similarity to the work of another exciting artist of the past, Ward Bond. Few people know the famous actor was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. His early attempts were what he described as abstract visionism. Which, loosely translated, was the ability of the artist to see what cannot be seen whilst repeatedly being pummeled by John Wayne. This brings me to the palette series of Almost Anonymous. He is a visionary of the first degree. His early work was founded in the post dadaism of the late 50’s espoused by the late painter and culinary great Grant Woody. Like Woody, Almost attempts to bring the world of gastronomy together with the disparate styles of the early renaissance painters. This is best demonstrated in the palette series 5 work, Real Palette. It is obvious that the artist is using the palette as a metaphor for the chefs offering of a plate of hors d’oeuvres. The palette as surrogate lover is demonstrated in the beautiful and sustaining work, Palette for the Breadboxes, 2001. Here the artist works and kneads the elements of the elegant yet mildly grotesque dust pan into an alternative life style cum rock opera. The ultimate meaning of the piece cannot be missed by any discerning viewer, it is love and hate melded together by a masterful hand. It is clear that Almost is more than a great artist he is an insightful and thought provoking philistine. Never pedantic or fashionistic yet always embracing the insouciant nature of life and all its’ vicissitudes. Almost could be called the Buckminster Fuller of this we call the new paradigm. His indifference to the norm is never unctuous but rather is a response to the undertow of mumbling mugwumps and naysayers of what some might call the “Art World”.
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