Works on Paper  2023-2010  Gallery Two

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Drawing vs Painting: Preliminary sketches are one way to think about drawing. However, given the mixed media possibilities, stand-alone drawings can be as rich and varied as any artist’s imagination to exploit the medium.

Pictorial space is sometimes sacrificed in my painting. No doubt due to my love of assemblage. The artist working on paper feels less inhibited in dissecting and embellishing objects in novel ways. Drawing is to painting what chamber music is to the symphony: Away from creating war horses and other monumentally significant work, the intimate mood that surrounds a pencil and piece of paper is liberating. Often in these settings one finds an artist’s most daring ideas.

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Fugue State Steak Fries (12" x 12.5" graphite and white charcoal on toned paper) nfs

Fugue State Steak Fries

 

Loose Molars and Bicuspids (12" x 12" graphite and white charcoal on toned paper)

Loose Molars and Bicuspids

 

Loose Molars and Bicuspids (detail)

Loose Molars and Bicuspids (detail)

 

Dipole of Indecision (11" x 14" graphite and white charcoal on toned paper)

Dipole of Indecision

 

Dipole of Indecision (8" x  8.5" mixed media on paper)

Foiled Chocolat

 

Double Felix (11" x 14" graphite and color pencil on paper)

Double Felix

 

The Austere Premise (9" x 12" mixed media on paper)

The Austere Premise

 

Angiotensin (8.5" x 14" graphite and color pencil on paper)

Angiotensin

 

Dattchi Waifu (9" x 12" mixed media on paper)

Dattchi Waifu

 

Cast Iron Manifold (11" x 14" mixed media on paper)

Cast Iron Manifold

 

The Scale of Markmaking: My drawings are denser in detail than my paintings due to the scalability of the mark. Watercolor, pencils, ink, and markers offer little inertia where the brush, nib, etc. makes contact with its substrate. Only pigment suspended in a thin fluid is involved. Little residue spreads outward around the mark, which would prohibit scales of the finest gradation. Alcohol-based markers are a special case, although their bleeding is mostly limited to the backside of some drawing papers.

Oil painting is incapable of tiny marks unless the medium is thinned with a solvent, or one uses a ‘fine-detail’ medium or refined linseed oil. Here one imitates watercolor or airbrushed acrylic by applying thin or transparent color. The reason why I prefer oil to watercolor lies in its irreducible dimension: Oil paint does not merely reproduce an object faithfully, it recreates it as a tactile surface which extends outward from the canvas toward the careful viewer.

 

Modular Immodesty (9" x 12" mixed media on paper)

Modular Immodesty

 

Plinth of Limb and Latitude (9" x 12" mixed media on paper) nfs

Plinth of Limb and Latitude

 

Passenger Precept (12" by 12" mixed media on paper)

Passenger Precept

 

Laser Lattice (11" x 11" mixed media on paper)

Laser Lattice

 

Indeed and Inferior (9" x 11.5" mixed media on paper)

Indeed and Inferior

 

Pathogen Annoyance (9" x 11.5" mixed media on paper)

Pathogen Annoyance

 

Captions of Industry (9" x 11.5" pen and ink on paper)

Captions of Industry

 

Prolapsed Pro Forma (9" x 12" mixed media on paper)

Prolapsed Pro Forma

 

Tree Rings and Coffee Stains: I can only group my paintings and drawings into relative periods. Much of this work dates from when I drew at coffeehouses, so I am able to identify these pieces by which coffeehouse I frequented at the time they were created. This is perhaps an autistic thing, like remembering what color shirt you wore on your eighth birthday forty years ago.

Light in cafe environments is poor at best, and as my eyesight has deteriorated over the years, my ability to pursue a course of drawing outside my studio has decreased.

 

Shark Cartilege Cartwheel (9" x 11.5" mixed media on paper)

Shark Cartilege Cartwheel

 

Thews and Thrice Refused (9" x 12" mixed media on paper)

Thews and Thrice Refused

 

Air Quotes Invective (9" x 11.5" pen and ink on paper)

Air Quotes Invective

 

Bio Regrettable (9" x 11.5" pen and ink on paper)

Bio Regrettable

 

Vanitas Food Cart (9" x 12" graphite and white charcoal on toned paper)

Vanitas Food Cart

 

Fluid Situation (9" x 11.5" pen and ink on paper) nfs

Fluid Situation

 

Literal Cardboard (9" x 11.5" pen and ink on paper)

Literal Cardboard

 

Catheters Entreat (9" x 11.5" pen and ink on paper) nfs

Catheters Entreat

 

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