A few new things

Bather, 2009
Oil on Board 29 x 29 inches

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

Something Came Through Omaha 2009
Oil on Canvas 52 x 52 inches

Baleen, 2009
Oil on Canvas 43 x 58 inches

July One, 2009
Oil on Board 29 x 29 inches

Coasters

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