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Impressions: 1995-2000
In the fullest sense these paintings are about relationships: Relationships between
colors, tones, textures; relationships between marks, shapes, spaces. Such
formal relationships are among the most compelling elements of my work. But
my work is also about my relationship with my subjects. My grandfather's blue
vase, for instance, or my wife-- subjects I have painted countless times--
reflect complicated, enduring relationships in my life which I further dimensionalize
when I make them the subjects of my work. See
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Studio Life: 2000-2003
I find myself returning more often to still-life and interior
subjects in my thoughts and in my work. Interior spaces compel
my imagination perhaps more than any other subject. In this mystery
of attraction, I suppose, resides some truth about my own temperament.
So, like a latter day “intimist”, I come back to the
interior spaces of my studio and home, as if to excavate, from
the details of my daily life some sense of myself. See
works from this period.
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Remnants: 2003-Present
In “Remnants” I explore the subject of domestic and personal interiority:
working from sources as diverse as observation, drawings, and memory the resulting
paintings represent my experience of time, place, and people rendered in abstract,
and largely, poetical terms. In the lengthy process of building and layering,
I am creating a pictorial space for memory and the imagination to freely reign;
a space for abstract, semi-abstract, and representational shapes to rhythmically
dance and play, wholly functioning as “remnants” to my interior
life lived and embraced to the fullest. See
works from this period.
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