Gummy Shards
Gummy Shards (detail)
Wharf The Trouble
Wharf The Trouble (detail)
Moths of Mid-Month
Not By Sight
Nancy Binary
Pinnoccio’s Time Share
Pinnoccio’s Time Share (detail)
Blind Man’s Bluff
Guinevere Planitia
Description of Style: Gravity is optional in my paintings and drawings. Objects, whether floating or stationary, are many times evolving, or merging with other objects to which they bear little obvious affinity. Where these objects do not physically interact, their juxtaposition may nonetheless suggest an impossible premise, such as when, in a Magritte painting, one finds a smoke-belching locomotive emerging from a fireplace.
Synergies often arise through chance association. I may steer a painting in a new direction based on what I ate for dinner. Consequently, there are no set narratives in my art, although cryptic titles suggest something of an inscrutable nature is being communicated. Confounding expectation is the soul of creativity, so when I see a chair, I remove a leg. Beauty does not require uselessness but, in a surrealist worldview, it is an enhancement.
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Love of Monsters: In Memphis, Tenneessee in the mid-1960s, The Outer Limits sci-fi TV show aired on Saturday afternoons, and provided weekly tales of space monsters. The show’s producers made every attempt to distract from the fact that these were men in rubber suits, including the use of fog machines, strobe lights, humming oscillators, and Bartok-inspired space music. I absorbed these layers of dreaminess into my boyhood imagination as readily as the monsters themselves.
Add to this my Uncle from Chicago, who worked in a toy factory in the 1960s that manufactured, among other things, rubber monsters. One summer when he came to visit, he started pulling handfuls of creatures from his pockets; they fell into my lap like precious jewels.
Gallery Pages (Division of Work): Although the layout of my artwork adheres to no strict chronological order over these first three pages, Galleries Three and Four belong to a different epoch and mindset. These galleries include works from my La Luz de Jesus Gallery show in 2002, as well as drawings and other paintings beginning in the late 1990s.
Gallery Five is a separate gallery dedicated to landscapes dating from 2020. The Artwork Portal on my homepage will guide you to Art School Portfolio pages and Sketchbook pages.
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