ABSTRACTS
In my abstract paintings, a viewer can be led to deeper emotional, even spiritual, participation, through suggestion, not realistic representation or message delivery. Specifically, my abstractions explore optimism and hope—in all of its inexplicable and mysterious complexity, as something crucial but elusive, and not a simplistic antidote to suffering.
If these paintings are making a social statement, it is a call to pay attention to the privileged moments of not suffering in our lives. My process in abstraction is one of constant revision with brush and palette knife, layering and scraping, creating and revising shapes and colors that, in parts and in sum, interact to create a holistic, abstract expression of hope and vitality.
Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall 2017
Oil on Canvas 48''x72'' (sold)
Time Be a River
2017
Oil on Canvas 30''x40''
The White Fire of a Great Mystery
2017
Oil on Canvas 36''x48'' (sold)
What Can You Do About It, Deep Blue Night?
2018
Oil on Canvas 36''x48'' (sold)
Gaudium
2018
Oil on Canvas 30''x 40'' (sold)
Sailing to Some Other Shore, Where We Can Be What We Want to Be
2018
Oil on Canvas 48''x48'' (sold)
A Prayer 2018
Oil on Canvas 30''x40'' (sold)
Give Me the Splendid, Silent Sun
2017
Oil on Canvas 30''x40''