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Some thoughts on abstraction
For a few years I took my atmospheres to a largely non-objective form inspired by Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko. If...
Sep 6, 2019


Toward a lightness of being
I can't remember a painting in the past 10 years that hasn't had a poem or writing attached to it, either in the making or the titling. ...
Apr 12, 2018


Pentimenti and My Painting Process
This abstract painting is ripe with with pentimenti–meaning the underlayers and marks that show through subsequent layers. This effect...
Sep 19, 2014


COLOR FIELD LANDSCAPES
I’ve been looking at works of and learning about Helen Frankenthaler recently. She was an early influence on my work, along with Rothko,...
Jun 26, 2014


The Numinous Landscape
One must follow the crumbs, notice what you notice… Just this week, a friend posted on Facebook the word Numinous (word porn...
Dec 9, 2013


The Shape of What You Lived
And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones...
Feb 3, 2013


Representing the abstract with the abstract
The ideas I wrestle with–spirituality, the unknown, death, wonder, the possible, the unanswerable–are all abstract concepts not easily...
Feb 19, 2012
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