Insight : after Picasso, from the Insights series,
2022-3, 30 individual works, varying dimensions.
See the series.
Pride-Power (left) and Wedge-Peril (right)
from the Puzzles series, Political Colors subset, 2022
13 unique works, varying dimensions
For the past year or more, I've been focused on two bodies of work: the Insights and Indexes series. They are sets of interrelated pieces that inform each other and operate both individually and as one larger work. Each piece is a painstaking construction of layered high-resolution imagery. They're labor intensive works. Many steps are taken and then taken again; many choices are made only by trial and error. A third series, Puzzles, also continues—in a bit less linear manner.
EARLIER WORK
There is a lot of earlier work, most of it not featured here, except for the images of work directly below (and just above). Most of these works are also executed in series and multiples exist. Inquire for more details.
Classical Fliers, installation at These Days gallery
10 individual works, each edition of eight with AP
22 x 39 inches, artist frame, 2019
Concept sketch, the Snipes series, 2019
Carts & Racks (1+2)
silkscreen prints on antique paper, artist frame
edition of 20 plus AP, 30 x 40 inches, 2020
In earlier pieces, I often worked with letterforms and language, which sometimes operated with meaning and sometimes did not. We are strongly programmed to regard black designs (which happen to be letters) on a white background as NOT just shapes and negative spaces—yet it is what they are—as abstract, symbolic, empty or magical as we wish them to become.
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from the Specimens series,
inkjet on archival cotton rag, artist frame
edition of six plus AP, 30 x 40 inches, 2020
Self-portrait as Félicien Rops
(includes fragment by François-Eugene Burney, 1887)
unique inkjet on archival paper, 14 x 20 inches, 2019
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