e enjte, 28 janar 2010

Statement

My place and work is in the studio, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom. It's all about appetite. I don't separate the breakfast foods from the dinner ones,

and I paint my abstractions as though a realism, and the realism as though an abstraction - inseparable, until the painting rises from the picture plain as a truth, a truthful occurrence, whether intimate or conflicting, between pigment, sensations, and vision, that speaks within the theater of the medium, who I am. A play of visual languages/poetry; thick abstractions, renderings, baroque linear structures, and geometric Turnbuckles (visual locking mechanisms to the whole. Something has to hold this mystery together for me- my pool of dualities, beliefs and denials, beauty surrounding eroticism, the Ouroboros, the hunger and lawlessness, the 0-balance ) - these collisions inherent and inescapable in the natural condition of existence. I’m looking for synthesis, an understanding, but not all in the imagery, more through the imagery.

e hënë, 18 janar 2010

New Year, New Paintings

Dressed in the Ether, 2010
Oil on Board 15 x 16 inches


Squid Martini, 2010
Oil on Board 29 x 34 inches

One of the Brothers, 2010
Oil on Board 17 x 17 inches


Passing Appetite, 2010
Oil on Board, 14 x 14 inches


If Thrown, Get Back On, If Hot, Get in the Water, 2010
Oil on Board 17 x 17 inches





e diel, 09 gusht 2009

Larger Works

Bather, 2009
Oil on Board 29 x 29 inches



July One, 2009
Oil on Board 29 x 29 inches




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



e diel, 29 mars 2009

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.


















e mërkurë, 28 janar 2009

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