What Remains

I've been working on stain paintings for a while now. Kind of reminds of me of Phillip Roth. These paintings are about process; commit to a moment and work with what you get until a beauty is achieved. Thankfully they've turned out pretty well. 

Burning Bright

"The Road to Menerbes"
48" x 72"
Mixed Media on Canvas
(Sale Pending)

Another in a series of paintings aimed at creating an atmosphere and defy the eye's ability to view this piece as having any singular perspective. In these paintings I am encouraging the viewer to find the Spiritual within.

The Unlaid Plans

Tiger, Tiger
36" x 28"
Mixed Media on Canvas

The Fearful Symmetry #1 of 3
60" x 48"
Mixed Media on Canvas

The Fearful Symmetry #2 of 3
60" x 48"
Mixed Media on Canvas

The Fearful Symmetry #3 of 3
60" x 48"
Mixed Media on Canvas

All of the pieces above are part of a new effort to work in ways that produce results which cannot be planned. Choices are made in terms of color, but the results are not predictable.

More Sky

A study for a large scale piece. I am increasingly drawn to landscapes, snowy ones at that. Low light. Small features. There is more space than actual matter.

"More Space"

Acrylic and Graphite on Canvas
48" x 48"

"Adrift"
Acrylic and Coffee on Canvas
48" x 48"

A friend recently gave me some information on the great German Painter Anselm Kiefer. His work deals with struggles of conscience and the reconciliation of one's individual self with a the collective past. Though I never plan to do so, making pictures of this type- on inspection after the fact- seems to relate to my past and working through fear. I don't want to get too precious about it, but paintings can be seen- per Rothko and many others- as snapshots of states and colors as feelings. The above two pieces both represent those issues and create them simultaneously.

Dental Work

Dental Work #12 Chalk on Paper 28" x 22"
(AVAILABLE)

Dental Work #13 Chalk on Paper 28" x 22"
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Dental Work #14 Chalk on Paper 28" x 22"
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Teeth that glow white scare me. Faintly blue and opaque, they seem even more like appliances than natural body parts. And it is that feeling which informs my fascination with them. My sketchbooks and doodles are often filled with molars and incisors. The commoditization of the flesh is the subject of a lot of my work.

Fields of Color

Fending For Myself Oil and on Canvas 60" x 78"
(SOLD)

Tibetan Spring Oil on Canvas 60" x 78"
(SOLD)

What I Remember Acrylic on Canvas 48" x 32"
(AVAILABLE)

Sometime in the Spring Acrylic on Canvas 48" x 32"

(SOLD)

Whenever I do, or look at a color field painting, it ends up feeling like a landscape. And then the picture goes on from there to take up other associations. Things, as I said before, exist above and below the line. In and out of consciousness. Color peek through from below and disturb the surface. Some of the colors work, others do not. Cool on warm. Warm on cool. It's a gamble.