NEW WORK
I enjoy paintings that look like a record of the physical act, brushstrokes that help me imagine wet paint on the artist’s hands, clothing and sure, all over the wall behind the canvas. If there are brush hairs, fingerprints, once-flying insects fossilized in the paint, all the better. I also like photography that borrows from painting. My latest work includes both inventive experiments with painting technique, especially various ways of stacking or layering many fully-executed paintings one on top of the other, at times up to 15 paintings deep, then scraping and sanding through the various layers, only to build up parts once again. My photography is equally experimental, busting out of its categorical box. For example, sometimes I'll use the camera to transform my own paintings into completely new and different work...
Bernal Morning, digital photograph. This and other of my photographic works are available for purchase as museum-quality giclée prints on heavyweight archival etching paper, in signed limited editions. If you would like more information about purchasing a hand-signed and numbered giclée, including size and other options, please contact me.
Medicine Woman After Hours, oil and acrylic on canvas, 20 1/8 x 10 1/2
Figures on a Green and Violet Ground (detail)
Figures on a Green and Violet Ground, oil over acrylic on canvas, diptych, each panel is 24 x 24 (approximately 24 x 48 overall)
Figures on a Green and Violet Ground (detail)
Give Take Give, No. 3, oil and acrylic on canvas, 10 x 8. The three paintings comprising the “Give Take Give” series are constructed of fifteen distinct paintings layered one on top of the other. Then I excavate through the layers. SOLD
Still Life on the Verge, No. 1, digital photograph. The process of creating this piece included photographing of one of my own paintings many times until I arrived at this image.
Until Next Time, San Francisco, digital photograph
Give Take Give, No. 1, oil and acrylic on canvas, 10 x 8 SOLD
Dearth of Green, oil and acrylic on wood panel, 16 x 12
Still Life on the Verge, No. 7, digital photograph.
She Chose Mauve, Study No. 1, oil on canvas, 36 x 32. Meant to be the first of a series of quick, breezy studies for a much larger canvas, testing out various techniques, styles and compositions. This “study” has a lot going for it, though I’m not sure if the larger canvas will be anything like the first stab!
She Chose Mauve, Study No. 1 (detail)
Still Life with Green Portuguese Pitcher, oil on hardboard, 24 x 18. Begun in the mid-aughts. Finished recently.
Among the Naked Ladies
(sub-series)
For every 1,000 or so photographs I make, just one is worthy of presenting. There are exceptions: the best results of this productive “Naked Ladies” photo shoot are good examples of how I use the camera and digital editing tools like palette knives or paint brushes, how the shapes and colors around us can be scooped up and applied as if these had the plasticity of oil paint.
"Naked Ladies" refers to the Amaryllis belladonna, which during late summer oddly sends up multiple tall, ghostly and completely leafless stalks crowned with striking pink blooms. Only once these sway enough in the breeze, wither and return to the soil does the plant reemerge as a robust ponytail of leaves, with no sign of a flower bud in sight. I always feel an uneasy tension in how these two selves, or two sides of a self, never meet up, never quite make each other whole. How do you react when sweet isn't balanced with spicy, or sour with astringent, but instead each must be enjoyed in isolation?
Among the Naked Ladies (A), digital photograph. This and other of my photographic works are available for purchase as museum-quality giclée prints on heavyweight archival etching paper, in signed limited editions. If you would like more information about purchasing a hand-signed and numbered giclée, including size and other options, please contact me.
Among the Naked Ladies (B), digital photograph.
Among the Naked Ladies (C), digital photograph.
Among the Naked Ladies (D), digital photograph.
Among the Naked Ladies (E), digital photograph.