After graduating in architecture, I chose to pursue my art instead of working in an office. I was absorbed in photography at the time and continued after I moved to New York in the mid 70's. Then, while shifting to color photography, I began painting. Slowly painting became the the medium for expressing my ideas.
New Arcadia is a meditation on my
rural memories. These emotional abstractions are weighted by a simple image
of a domesticated animal. John Berger was an influence.
Gregory Bateson asked "Is
'nature' a product of the mind or 'the mind' a product of nature?"
Field Report was a four year obsession with an avocado plant and Descartes.
My grids began here. View the series: Field
Report
Landscapes evolved from my Field
Report attempts to abstract the experience of space. I made an effort
to never touch the painted surface. Handmade paper "sketches" led
to Masonite panels. View the series: Landscapes
Angel and Devils followed when
I decided to put theoretical objects in my abstracted spaces. I also experimented
with more drastic grid distortions.
View the series: Angels
and Devils
Struggles was the result of pitting
my Devils against my Angels. I drew from many cultures for moral images
and strove to question which was good and what was evil.
View the series: Struggles 1 (soon)
New Arcadian Mural was commissioned
by the French restaurant Tartine in Brooklyn. Line interpretation
from Monet to Picasso, were routed into a 24 foot Malimite tile grid.
View the series: Tartine
Mural