Friday, November 18, 2011

5 GRAVITY POOL PRINTS

These are actually not quite full images. The prints are 11"x 14" and the large details are around 9"x12."
The prints retail for $600 each or the suite of 5 for $2500.

Staring at the top: "12 Pools"
                              "Gravity's Law"
                              "Darwin's Joy"
                              "Collected Pools"
                              "Twenty Pools"

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Friday, June 24, 2011

PIEROGI SUMMER SHOW: SUBJECTIVE/OBJECTIVE


"Murano" 30"x44" ink and colored pencil on rives BFK
The exhibition runs through July 31

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Venetian Dream

"Venetian Dream" the title of my upcoming exhibition at Brian Gross Fine Art, refers to a dream that I had on my first night in Venice in the spring of 2009.

In the dream a picture appeared of how to begin a drawing. The rule was so simple yet compelling. A spiral like structure was built with a series of dashes beginning with one dash, then at a right angle 2 dashes, another right angle three dashes and so on.

The next morning I began the first of several 7"x5" pencil drawings exactly as I had dreamt it. Intuitively I understood that being in Venice, a place so wondrously and luminously expansive, was what led to the dream. The very unfurling suggested in the rule was a metaphor for a soaring of my artistic vision.

I returned to the studio after my Venetian vacation and began making larger works on paper and small paintings on linen. I found that the rhythm and harmonies that occurred were less predictable, and that I was able to push the boundaries of what I thought was a balanced composition.

My work has always been about building, allowing each rule to suggest the next rule with a sort of non-thinking, like a spider making a web, or a bird making a nest, realizing that I know nothing.

Venetian Dream Drawings