Cape Sounion CAPE SOUNION 30″ x 30” January 2, 2015 This painting, Cape Sounion, was a triumph for me in achieving an atmospheric play of depth and light. While maintaining a consciousness of the brush stroke being applied. I suppose this was a bow to impressionism without being pictorial. Said another way, I was balancing […]
Hope HOPE 30″ x 30” December 27, 2014 (SOLD) This painting, Hope, was dramatic for me, combining the intense colors of royal blue darkening into navy, and rich lime graduating to forest green. At first glance, this juxtaposition felt very dissonant. But I was balancing out two strong voices to create something unified and symbiotic.
Cashmere CASHMERE 30″ x 30” December 26, 2014 The word ‘cashmere’ is beautiful to pronounce, slides off the tongue and evokes the extreme softness of the fabric itself. This painting juxtaposed pink and grey—which I found very chic in the fashion sense. These colors also strangely reminded me of schoolgirls’ sweaters in 1963: soft, innocent,
New Year’s Eve NEW YEAR’S EVE 30″ x 30” November 3, 2014 (SOLD) Breaking my own tradition with vertical stripes—capturing the glittering revelry of a New Year’s Eve party in tones of red, purple, gold, yellow. Colors I normally consider garish but here are completely warranted. This is the first time I shear dissonant shades
La Fôret Noire LA FÔRET NOIRE 30″ x 30” November 2, 2014 (SOLD) This painting, La Fôret Noire, started as a visual study of my partner’s favorite cake—the Black Forest cake. Which we discovered is a specialty of the French, not the Americans. Thus, the title in French. Following my own birthday in August, I
Happy Birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY 30″ x 30” August 23, 2014 (SOLD) My good mood on my 57th birthday propelled me to spoil myself with an indulgence in colors I always coveted: cobalt blue, navy blue, silver, light grey. Happy Birthday, I reveled in the idea of not mixing colors but smashing them against each other.
Wedgewood WEDGEWOOD 30″ x 30” May 7, 2014 This painting, Wedgewood, was a difficult venture into transparency and lightness. Trying to achieve a recurrent texture of white under something almost as pale. I love the chalkiness of actual Wedgwood china, and its fragile, tender, pale blue. Sometimes, imbued with a smokiness that made it melancholy
Post Halloween POST-HALLOWEEN 30″ x 30” October 31, 2013 The geometry of stripes here within Post Halloween become more complex, where thin stripes alternate with fatter ones. Here, inspired by the “almost-black” color fields of Reinhardt that reveal color and shape upon gazing. Much like going into a dark room after being in sunlight. At
Evergreen EVERGREEN 30″ x 30” October 14, 2013 This, Evergreen, was a painting that pushed the limit of thinner stripes, escalating to twenty. It was a study of somber deep greens. In this case, no color matched the other, and it was a challenge to create twenty versions of green. Ultimately, that could co-exist harmoniously.
Lipstick Storm LIPSTICK STORM 30″ x 30” October 13, 2013 (SOLD) This painting, Lipstick Storm, was a conscious work about glamourous colors. Inspired by fashion and what I considered fashionable: lipstick, neon lights, velour, banquettes. All ideas vaguely derivative of glamourous nightclubs in New York in the 1940’s, and the women that frequented them. In
