Diptychs summer 2009

Three diptychs - 16" x 16", acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Solo Museum Exhibition

I am pleased to announce that I will be having a solo museum exhibition
At the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art in the Spring of 2010.
The show will consist of paintings done over the last couple of years
and will be accompanied by a catalog.
To find out more, please sign-up on the website.
The link is here.

Diptychs

Some recent diptychs as well. These came from the larger paintings. A selection.

70 x 100 cm

70 x 100 cm

Larger scale paintings

These larger scale works evolved out of the smaller paintings I have been doing. They are roughly one meter high (slightly more for the bigger ones, slightly less for the smaller.) They are untitled as of yet. Click on the image to see a larger version.



















116 x 89 cm






















130 x 89 cm

130 x 89 cm

130 x 97 cm

Triptych - Paris

Another triptych in the series.

New smaller paintings - Paris

Upon relocation to Paris, a new series of paintings in a similar vein as the 100 Mission St. works. More specifically, they derive from some done in Northern California just before moving to France.















untitled as of yet, acrylic on canvas, triptych, 33 x 72 centimeters.

New Smaller Paintings

Some smaller works, 2007

8" x 10"
acrylic on canvas - currently untitled

100 Mission St. Commission

Smaller presentation works meant to be large installations, but were not accepted for the commission. The site was 100 Mission Street, San Francisco. The two paintings follow: above and below are photoshopped installation shots. The final works were to be 14' by 10', diptychs both.






The two smaller works are to be found in the collection of the building.

Belle Epoque review in November Artweek

A larger (readable) version of this can be found here.

Belle Epoque Statement

The statement, from the LA show:

This body of work is drawn from paintings of society women done by Jean Dominique Ingres, the French Classical painter of the 19th Century. The paintings started as a continuation of previous figurative works, with an interest in the formal aspects of the source paintings - the pose, the rendering of materials and so forth - but soon turned to what I saw as the artifice in Ingres' work. The idealization of the figures and the idealization of the environments hid the artistic license Ingres took with the anatomy of the women. So I pushed that incongruity by incorporating further the figures in an abstract context. Like engenders like and from these paintings arose the strictly abstract work, included here, the two paintings Belle Epoque - I and Belle Epoque - II. My present work continues in that vein.

Belle Epoque Exhibition in Los Angeles

Quatres Robes, finished state, in the studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts, in the Marin Headlands. The painting consists of eight panels and originated during my residency at the Vermont Studio Center. I wanted to play around with a painting that could be re-arranged by the viewer. The painting was part of an exhibition I recently had, entitled Belle Epoque, consisting of five single panel paintings and this multi-paneled piece.
The exhibition first opened at Mesa Contemporary Arts (municipal museum), in Mesa, Arizona, curated by Frank deCurtis, formerly the assistant curator there. It was up for three months, moved on to San Francisco, at One Sansome, presented by Jan Casey of Casey and Associates. Again, it was up for a couple of months before being exhibited at Angel's Gate Cultural Center, in Los Angeles. That stretch ran from July to October - it was taken down a week ago, and was reviewed by Kim Beil in Artweek, for the November edition. More images of the works exhibited, studio shots and the review can be seen here on Flickr.
Also, installation shots uploaded by Angel's Gate can be seen here, again on Flickr.