A Recent Series

Stone Boat
enamel on cradled board, 19" x 24"
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I never know for sure where a painting will go.  This started out to be another stone painting, but evolved into a clunky, boat-like shape that I somehow liked and decided to develop.  For me there is something poignant and moving about a boat out of water.  This piece has led to several other works with boat forms, shown below.  Click on the images to enlarge.

Boating in Tokyo
Enamel on gesso-coated paper, 62" x 72"
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The conventional reading of space in these paintings is often subverted by various means to create a deliberately ambiguous environment.  I'm after an imaginative space, not a literal one.

The Geometry of Travel
Enamel on cradled board, 19" x 24"
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The Collection of Hours
Enamel on cradled board, 19" x 24"
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The Color of the World

Enamel on heavy, gesso-coated paper, 61.5" x 72"
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It's always an open-ended journey with these paintings. This trip took me to a land of rich, deeply saturated color.

Center Pivot 1

Oil on cradled board, 27" x 29"
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These recent works are variations on aerial landscapes.  Google Earth has made astronauts of us all.  I find it endlessly fascinating to float virtually over the globe, studying the natural organic forms of the earth's surface.  The relationship of macro to micro is inescapable:  viewed from above, a twining river fans out across a vast delta in perfect replica of the network of arteries running down my arm.  I'm especially intrigued by those points of intersection where we humans leave our mark, imposing our own geometry of patterns on the land. 

Although the forms in these paintings are abstracted and color is freely invented, their underlying structure  remains true to the actual places.  In other words:  I didn't make these designs up--they already exist in the world.

Blue Fog

Acrylic on board, 49" x 54"
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I recently changed the proportions of this painting from the Stone series and did a little more work on it, so here's the current version. 

Green Mercy

Acrylic on archival paper, 30" x 22"
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Serpentine

Acrylic on archival rag paper, 22" x 30"
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Cant

Acrylic on archival rag paper, 22" x 30"
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Crux

Acrylic on archival rag paper, 30" x 22"
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Plotter

Acrylic on archival rag paper, 22" x 30"
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Convergence

Oil on board, 30" x 90"
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Detail, right panel

Fast Talker

Oil on board, 48.5" x 60.25"
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Detail, "Fast Talker"

Refuge

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Oil on cradled board, 29" x 27"
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Volkan

Acrylic on 4 sheets paper, each sheet 13" x 11", 2011
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I've been playing with manipulating the paint using trowels and scraping tools. Each piece is done independently, then later I start putting them in arrangements like this. The search is for a visual narrative--a point where each segment starts rhythmically "speaking" to the others.

I plan to mount these sheets on cradled supports and then varnish, so they won't require framing under glass.

Rising Spring

Acrylic on paper, 22" x 30", 2011
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