Reception at Cattle Track

My mom and I next to my pieces at the show

Upcoming exhibition

Four of my small 6" x 6" pieces will be hung in the upcoming Great Things Come in Small Packages exhibition at Cattle Track Arts Compound in Scottsdale. The reception will be Saturday, November 24, 4pm - 8pm. For location and more info.
www.homeandabroad.com/viewSiteDetails.ha?mainInfoId=72137

The task of an artist

"The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business even in the best of times."
- Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

What I'm working on now...

We moved two months ago and I'm finally back into the swing of things. I feel *mostly* settled and so glad to be painting again. This is the latest piece I'm working on.

Priority Boxes

www.fdlmstudio.com/priorityboxes.html

check out this guy's art ... he paints beautiful boxes and ships them out all over the world for free!

"Somewhere a hunter padded in his mukluks, watching the horizon through the clouds of his breath; a dancer with hair below her buttocks chassed toward the bathroom in her muumuu. These were the only two things I knew for certain..."
- taken from a short story by Paul Fattaruso

on my way into Chicago

Call for Mail Art

Want a great excuse to get creative? Here's a fun project to check out... this gallery in AZ is calling artists to decorate envelopes, postcards, and just about anything that will go through the mail to send them for an upcoming exhibition. Every piece will be for sale and the proceeds will go to a local children's charity. What could be better?

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/ats/355431146.html

One is never finished seeing and watching. Our eyes are the door of the spirit and the light of the mind.
- Georges Rouault

more little ones

"Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate."
-Jenny Saville

Chicago Exhibition

Two of my pieces go up today in this exhibition in Chicago.
Please join us for the opening reception, Friday, June 8th from 6 pm - 9:30 pm.
Black Walnut Gallery
2135 W. Division Street, Chicago

What I'm working on now...

16 x 20
not finished yet

More little ones

each is 6 x 6
(available)

A thought for today...

A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.

- Paul Gardner

Little Ones

The latest little ones. I think I've decided they are supposed to be hung three together like these are shown here.
each 6"x6"

Exhibition pieces close up

Aqua Intersections - 6' x 4' (available)



Rose Intersections


Yellow Intersections with Poppy

Intersections (Artist Statement)

This work grows out of a series of questions that have formed in me during recent years. The questions have to do with dichotomies of the human experience (e.g. love and hate, peace and war, fullness and emptiness, etc.). Although these realities oppose each other, they share space in the world; and they share space in me. In the beginning I asked how such powerful paradoxes could exist. The larger force of my work, however, gained momentum after shifting my attention to explore how they affect one another through their proximity and inevitable encounter.

In the world of color, opposites on the color wheel are blue and orange, red and green, purple and yellow. Combining opposing paint colors while still wet results in a mucky brown. If, however, opposing colors are set side by side instead of mixed, the result is often a powerful visual interaction that is frequently surprising. After realizing how thoroughly these color interactions held my attention, I poured all my creativity into exploring them, taking my questions of paradox with me into the work. The pieces hanging in this exhibition are some of the results of that journey.

My senior exhibition hung in Adams gallery