Drawings & Paintings

Oh I forgot to tell you- I'm in Miami!

2012-01-08T17:33:00.000-08:00

I am in Miami. I moved to Miami and am in the Bakehouse. I have a studio in the very hip area of Wynwood, just north of the business district of downtown Miami. I've actually been down here since the beginning of November. I've had my hands full moving into two neighborhoods at the same time, one the studio, and the other the house in south Miami, and deciding which beach to go to...
Visit me @ the Bakehouse Art Complex when you are in the neighborhood of 561 Northwest 32nd St

New Botanicals , Vermont Studio Center, May 2011

2011-04-18T07:26:00.000-07:00

As an artist, I am a New Englander, a junkie for weather, driven by

it’s unpredictability’s – in a cerebral sense, making art that continually

navigates the raw impulses between nature’s harmonics, it’s irreverent

juxtapositions, the emotional/dramatic style, and it’s constant collision

between figuration and abstraction, with an erratic cloud covering of

surrealism. I weave between deliberate form and gestural charges where rendered certainties exist, and abstract attacks and visceral passages obscure, putting out of reach any cognitive construct - the lines intentionally blurring between the characters of each. The conditions spread across a playful formalism through to unfamiliar weather conditions, like geometry with a cowlick, or in the case of this new work …. botanicals with attitudes.

Working Wall, VSC Plants and Mixed Mediums

My depictions are rooted in, but are not solely inclusive of, the plant kingdom. These are botanicals with robust attitudes, thriving in the complex conditions of the natural world while in the hands of our own

visual psychological theater. While adhering to this tradition, the overall impression of the piece is that it’s part of a much broader language. The tradition’s standards are employed - Latin titles, signifiers, details, and embellished borders, prompting the leap between known and unknowns, both instructive and poetic.

Brassicus wolverine, 2011

Mixed medium on Paper 33 x 40 inches

Ononis hirsina, 2011

Mixed Medium on Paper 30 x 38 inches

Hybrid 1, 2011

Gouache, Ink, Colored Pencil on Paper

33 x 40 inches

Potentilla with Bok Choy, 2011

Mixed Medium on Paper 24 x 36 inches

Arachiona hydrogaea, 2011

Oil and Marker on Clay Coated Paper

9 x 12.5 inches

Fico Alba Nigrum Balanus, 2011

Oil, Graphite, Marker on Paper

14 x 17 inches

Aloe Stripped Bare, 2011

Oil, Ink, Colored Pencil on Paper 14 x 17 inches

Lusum imputicus, 2011

Oil, Graphite, and Ink on Paper

9 x 12.5 inches

Jonquil, 2011

Oil, Ink, Pastel on Paper 8.5 x 11 inches

Sunken Plant, 2011

Ink, Graphite, Pastel on Paper

9 x 12.5 inches

Rose Balanus, 2011

Oil, Ink, Graphite on Paper 9 x 12.5 inches

Zea mays, 2011

Mixed Medium on Paper 8.5 x 11 inches

Hips, 2011

Mixed Medium on Paper 9 x 12.5 inches

Lobelia, 2011

Mixed Medium on Paper 8.5 x 11 inches

Millay Colony - July 2010 and after

2010-09-30T07:46:00.000-07:00

Statement

2010-01-28T05:11:00.000-08:00

My place and work is in the studio, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom - forms growing out of appetites. I paint my abstractions - a buffet of pigment rich in rings, smears, blobs, tubular arabesques- as though a realism, and the realism - amorphic forms built from images of lingerie-clad gourds and other accouterments - as though an abstraction – inseparable, until the painting rises from the picture plain as a truth.

Within this bilingual fabric, I paint Turnbuckles or Coasters – geometric composites that temp a visual binding of the elements, a suggestive lock without key, that acts like architecture or spine for the mystery. Elements

of nature are taking part, not for purpose of place, but for it’s presence as that marvelous giver and taker! This is the Landscape of good and evil, the Yin Yang of the scenic overlook, the Head of lawlessness in the serenity of the expression, all in it’s funkiest jewelry and in the quagmire of refinement.

New Year, New Paintings

2010-01-18T12:23:00.001-08:00

Where Rings are Made, 2010

Oil on Board 17 x 17 inches

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

Larger Works

2009-08-09T05:32:00.001-07:00

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

Coasters

2009-03-29T17:50:00.000-07:00

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

2009-01-28T06:20:00.000-08:00

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