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. Inquire for more details.
(above: The Seduction Of Anomie, detail)
Classical Fliers, installation at These Days gallery
10 individual works, each edition of eight with AP
22 x 39 inches, artist frame, 2019
The Worthlessness Of Art, from the Snipes series, 2019
(Is art escape, prayers to a patron saint of nothing?
Can geometry be religion; colors gods?)
6-color inkjet, variable substrates and dimensions
Mick Jones With Avocado Toast
mixed media on cardboard, walnut artist frame
13 x 17 inches, 2020
Detour 1 (Ed and Eddie Ruscha GAP ad
with Minimalist Composition)
mixed media collage and on steel road sign
36 x 24 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
Odd Collages (2), Racks, Carts, Fences
silkscreen on handmade paper, artist frame
edition of 10 plus AP, 24 x 36 inches, 2023
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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