Wednesday, July 28, 2010
New work in process, series titled, 'Running Man'.
New work in process, series titled, 'Running Man'.
New work in process, series titled, 'Running Man'.
New work in process, series titled, 'Running Man'.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Study Painting, 06/30/2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Proposed Solution to Gulf Oil Leak
Thursday, May 6, 2010
First Friday Art Exhibit
I'll have recent artwork in a joint show with Jason Nye this First Friday (May 7, starting at 7PM) at the Garfield Galleria, 316 W. McDowell Rd., Phoenix, AZ. There are a number of other art spaces in the building for you to enjoy, so if you're in the area, stop by and have a glass of wine - hope to see you there!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
New Painting, 04-06-2010
This painting is currently on exhibit at the 'Art by Architects' show at the AIA Metro Phoenix Gallery in downtown Phoenix, AZ.
Monday, March 22, 2010
New Painting, 03-22-2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
New sketch - 03-06-2010
This is a 3 minute preliminary sketch for a new painting I'm developing, 'The Race'. It is also an experiment using pastels with water.
I drew the white lines in to see how they worked going over a dark area. It didn't work so well where the paper was fully saturated, but was better after a first pass removed some of the water, or where the paper wasn't as wet.
The original black line work on the figures was done dry - just wanted to see how it held up by soaking it in water.
New sketch - 03-06-2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
New Painting, 02-27-2010
This painting is currently on exhibit at the 'Art by Architects' show at the AIA Metro Phoenix Gallery in downtown Phoenix, AZ.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Current Artist Statement, February 2010
Ideation
The ideation that drives the development of initial concepts emerges from three fundamental aspects of consciousness; perception, memory and imagination. My creative process is an evolving dialog between the external, which comes from perception, and internal, arising from memory and imagination. Briefly:
1. Perception: The results of immediate experience that can be literally drawn from life. John Ruskin, (1858), declares that ‘Artists must first be viewers’, and Anthony Santella (2005), notes that ‘artists control the amount of detail in the images they create . . . want(ing) the appearance of reality which has been organized and structured to make its meaning clearer, if necessarily more limited than the infinite complexity of reality.’ As an observer and recorder of the observed, the artist acts as a filter between observed reality and the work that results in the art object.
2. Memory: Engaging in work that emerges from the recollection of significant events in the artist’s life. It is an internalized vision which can be more fundamental or essential than perception, by the process of distilling the detail retained by the mind to that which is most salient.
3. Imagination: Employing various techniques which remove the artist from memory and perception, including automatism, collaboration, material processes, or any of a number of techniques that move one beyond routine experience and memory.
Process
My art is deeply rooted in process. This process is iterative, exhibiting discipline and diligence in pursuing a motif or idea. Often this work pursues formal ideals of composition, color, form, and texture rather than illusionistic representations. My outlook is forward-looking and experimental, evidencing a belief that the art object is a palimpsest resulting from the work of creation. Each act of creation necessarily results in new paradigms for subsequent efforts of creation leading to a continuum of nascence; a continual emerging and evolving.
This work conveys an expression of internal energies. Fundamental to this thinking is the distinction between the art work and the art object, as Albert Camus wrote, “It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.” As a result of this focus on process, my art captures the essence of particular moments, imbibed with immediacy, serving as a record of temporal experience and process. Elbert Hubbard goes further to elaborate, “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” Some artists use means of machination in producing their art, utilizing machines, outsourcing, etc., which has a tendency to remove the evidence of intimate personal process. This removal of evidence is an integral characteristic of architecture, which demands the intervention and collaboration of many to create the whole. My art demands the opposite: evidence of personal process, an unfiltered collaboration between artist and materials.
Materiality
The pursuit of personal means of expression relies on an imperative of exploration, which by extension demands experimentation. This is why I execute the same motif across a variety of media – divergent results arise from using different media . Unique characteristics possessed by each medium contain a latent potential to reveal new opportunities for subsequent exploration. I use oil, acrylic, tempera/gouache, watercolor, encaustic, etc. on various surfaces; paper, canvas, board, wood, etc. Techniques include original works as well as monoprint, serigraph, stenciling, block cut lithographs, etc. In my work it is necessary to try multiple iterations of compositions exploring variations through different media as a means of pursuing alternate, and perhaps more ideal results. Through this process of experimentation I’m discovering new ways to explore new ideas.
Each compositional idea that I explore expands a growing understanding of inherent possibilities that might be contained in future compositions. The evolving nature of this vision and heuristic use of many types of media should not be confused with lacking focus; as I’ve been quoted in the past, 'I’m not portraying the world, I’m creating one.’
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
New Paintings, 01/26/2010
New Paintings, 01/26/2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
It's warm enough to paint outside!
New Painting, First Draft (Cartoon) 'Figure in Landscape'
Painting is no longer available - it has been painted over.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Red Figure
A nice quote about my work from the poet Senaq, "l'élégance du noir met en valeur les couleurs initiées par la main de l'artiste."
"The elegance of black accentuates the colors initiated by the hand of the artist." - Senaq
Merci, Senaq, merci.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Uncropped version of painting from December 2009.
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