New Paintings

The Coaster paintings combine some of the physicality of a roller coaster, with the emotional, psychological metaphors inherent in such ‘rides’. These are about conflicting, discomfiting intrusions, and/or compatibly, smooth-running adjoining ‘rides’ within a shared space.

Turnbuckles

The Turnbuckle pieces are forms stemming from the idea where a painting has an architectural structure, and if so, then it will need connective hardware, in the same sense, where it anatomical connective tissue. Think of them as exposed cohesion, vertebra on an exoskeleton, there to serve as a bond between completely disassociate elements- whether between passages of abstractions or more figurative renderings.

Turnbuckle 11
9 x 9 inches
Oil, pen, marker on paper
2008

Turnbuckle 10
9x9 inches
Oil, pen, marker on paper
2008
Turnbuckle 4
9x9 inches
Oil, pen, marker on paper
2008

Turnbuckle 9
9x9 inches
Oil, pen, marker on paper
2008

Turnbuckle 7
9x9 inches
Oil, pen, marker on paper
2008

The Larger the Moon.......

The larger the moon, the more forces it lets loose on
it's neighbor - ice storms, flooding, crazy tides, flus, colds, harsh forms of realities rearing up, prophecies taking hold, and yet, with these conditions of forced
downward gazing, as if the ground you walk along is in recession, you are
to look skyward, to that pocked face orb, and then see how it's fertile light
infuses each step you take, and you then look straight out ahead, ahead to what's there in your midst,
into the eyes of your lover, who you'd raise up high before the moon, and you'd see there,

you're in the arms of an eclipse.

Moons

These Moon Drawings started on the August full moon, and through the following 6 nights of light.
Each moon since, has been drawn. They're my record of middle of the night holidays- places not often seen under this surreal, sometimes haunting, often romantic lighting. These nights have a climate all their own, and it's this that I'm after. Picasso had said the eyes of the canary should be removed so that it might sing more beautifully. With these drawings being done mostly plein air in the middle of the night, visibility is very limited - the less I see, the more I find to say.

Moon o817o8
22 x 22 inches
Scratchboard

Moon 1115o8
22 x 22 inches
Scratchboard


Moon 1o12o8
22 x 22 inches
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Moon o816o8
22 x 22 inches
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Moon 0821o8
22 x 22 inches
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Moon o911o8
22 x 22 inches
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Paintings

Currently the paintings are bridging three dissimilar, independent bodies of work, all done over the last several years. These are: 1) Drawn, linear abstractions, made with rolled out multi-colored clay, photographed in infinite arrangements, serving the image - architecturally, figuratively, or rhythmically. 2) Amorphic Figures- assembled vignettes of gourds and found objects, photographed in series, serve as “skinned” forms among the other structures in the paintings. 3) Painted abstractions/non-specifics - as condition, as energy, as weather. The work's constant lies in the composite of these elements, and the subject is often the presence of dialog between the three.

Anecdote, 2008
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches

Raft, 2008
Oil on canvas
54 x 54 inches



.Plump Nimbo and JooHee, 2007
Oil and marker on paper
18 x 18 inches

In Memory of Her Tongue, 2007
Marker, colored pencil, watercolor, oil, and
digital print on paper
18 x 25 inches

Split Not Gone, 2007
Oil, marker, and digital print on paper
12 x 12 inches