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ARTIST STATEMENT

I have a color and spatial sketch in my mind before starting my painting. I begin pouring the colors onto the surface of the background in various shapes and patterns. The shapes and forms emerge through the constant blending and manipulation of the paint; interlacing forms, bows and curves that constantly intersect to produce spatial structures which could be altered endlessly.

To cause something to change and flow, to make it relative suites me. I edit out and build upon what I feel is working. Sometimes when images come about by chance they are fresher more organic, more inevitably. Instinct takes charge. The composition of different forms, colors, structures, proportions, harmonies, etc. comes out as an abstract system analogous to music. Letting a thing come, rather then following a precise plan can be more genuine, richer, and more alive. Music filters into my work, like lines of dialogue. The rawness of experiencing sounds, from Mozart to Dylan, is what I try to translate into a visual vocabulary. Music relies on an established structure, one that allows for infinite expression of guttural emotion. That liberty within form inspires my own explorations in painting. Feelings, sensations produce a specific emotional effect.

In my black and white paintings the elimination of color creates a simplification that has to carry the emotion alone on the shapes and spatial relationships that are formed by the intertwining swirls and blobs of paint.

Chance plays an important role in my paintings however is never blind chance: it’s a chance that is always planned, but also always a surprise.

"Our Planet from Above #1"

2007
Oil on Canvas
50cm x 50cm

Untitled #3

2009
Alkyd on Wood Panel
91cm x 91cm

Untitled #4

2009
Alkyd on Wood Panel
91cm x 91cm

Untitled #8

2009
Alkyd on Wood Panel
91cm x 91cm

"I Long to Reach for You in the Morning Light"

2007
Oil, Alkyd, Polymer Resin on Canvas Mounted on Panel
98cm x 98cm

"I Long to See You in the Night"

2007
Oil, Alkyd, Polymer Resin on Canvas Mounted on Panel
98cm x 98cm

"Petals of Red, Leaves of Gold, Streaks of White"

2007
Alkyd, Polymer Resin on Wood Panel
Diptych 81cm x 243cm

"Our Planet from Above #2"

2007
Oil on canvas
50cm x 50cm

"Eye of the Storm"

2008
Oil, Alkyd, Polymer Resin on Canvas Mounted on Panel
98cm x 93cm

" Take Me on a Trip on Your Magic Swirling Ship"

2006
Oil, Alkyd on Linen
91cm x 122cm

"Il Fantino"

2001
Oil on Canvas
152cm x 122cm

Untitled / Shades of Blue and Gray

2009
Enamel Alkyd on Wood Panel
120cm x 176cm

Untitled / Shades of Red, Yellow and Blue

2009
Enamel Alkyd on Wood Panel
180cm x 122cm

Untitled / Black and White and Red All Over

2009
Enamel Alkyd, Spray Paint on Panel
122cm x 180cm

"Blueberry, Apple, Cherry, Pumpkin and Plums"

2009
Enamel Alkyd, Resin Polymer on Wood Panel
76cm x 152cm

"Gray Clouds Turning Crimson"

2009
Enamel Alkyd, Resin Polymer on Wood Panel
76cm x 152cm

"Yellow Fields with Twisted Oaks"

2009
Enamel Alkyd, Resin Polymer on Wood Panel
76cm x 152cm

"California Dreamers"

2009
Oil, Enamel Alkyd, Resin Polymer on Panel
122cm x 180cm

"Notes and Thangs Colors and Bangs"

2009
Spray Paint, Enamel Alkyd, Collage, Poly Resins on 3 Panels
Triptych-Each Panel 63cm x 125cm

"Fourth of July"

2006
Enamel Alkyd, Polymer Resin on Wood Panel
103cm x 144cm

"Beware of Flying Objects"

2009
Spray Paint, Enamel Alkyd, Polymer Resins, Collage on 3 Panels
122.5cm x 187.5cm

"The Ice Storm"

2009
Enamel Alkyd, Acetate, Polymer Resins, Collage on Canvas
120cm x 120cm

A White Dwarf Star

2010
Enamel Alkyd on Acetate, Colored Inks, Mived Media, Polymer Resins on Wood Panel
100cm x 120cm

Franklin & Eleanor

2010
Enamel Alkyd, Mixed Media, Polymer Resins on Wood Panel
100cm x 120cm

All the Dogs of Europe Bark

2010
Enamel Alkyd, Mixed Media on Canvas Mounted on Wood Panel
77.50cm x 117.50cm