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Influenced by Van Gogh (and Abstract Expressionism), Rauschenberg, Klee, Dubuffet, children's art, surrealism, dada, pop art, jimi hendrix and high-energy jazz (e.g., Coltrane), etc.

I was awed and knocked to the ground by Van Gogh's art (especially when I saw it in person). It walks a thin line between markings on some surface that depict something, and tracing the flow of energy through that being. Later expressionist movements helped expand the vocabulary that can be used.

Surrealism also had an impact – its super-focus and startling sharpness helped provide a basis for the glistening effects I like to add to some works. Its rearrangement of shape and form helped me to melt normal shapes into new forms, which could better be used to express their energy. The collage work of Rauschenberg and others further contributed to the breaking down of the normal arrangement of form.

Paul Klee and others developed a language using symbols. Children in their art create symbols for well-known entities that often form a basic vocabulary to represent things commonly found in their world. Dubuffet expanded on this idea. I try to add in symbols known to modern industrial culture, in the manner of Pop Art, but using basic industrial materials themselves, more in the brute manner of Dubuffet, children or early cultures.

High energy jazz and rock and roll, like John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix, helped me to expand my ideas about high energy expression, itself.

I do not feel that use of the basic materials of painting has been exhausted, or that art now must explore new materials/media to be able to make a valid statement.

Finally, since, to me, the spiritual is directly self-evident, it is also present in my work. The political and socio-political world are foreign to my art.

Big Fish

2004
Acrylic, brown paper bags, styrofoam, wax paper
91.4 cm X 61 cm

HiFi Hamburg

2005
Acylic, cardboard, glitter
91.4 cm X 61 cm

School of Fish

1979
Acrylic, brown paper bag, wax paper on cardboard
91.4 X 76.2

Auvers 1976

1977
acrylic
91.4 x 61

Hi Speed Bison

2005
Arylic on cardboard
91.4 x 61

Herd

1979
Acrylic, brown paper bag, wax paper on cardboard
91.4 x 76.2

Sputnik

1978
Paper, pencil, styrofoam, spray paint and antennas
152.4 x 50.8

Bacon & Eggs

1976
Acrylic, newsapaper, brown paper bag, wax paper on canvas board
91.4 x 61

Hamburger

1976
Acrylic, brown paper bag, newspaper on canvas board over pine 2" X 4"'s, with sparkles
91.4 x 203.2

The Passage of Time

1978
Acrylic, newspaper, aluminum foil, on canvas board on pine 2
221 x 558.8

Thunderbird

1979
Arcylic on homosote, wax paper, styrofoam, stripped electrical cord
215.9 X 121.92

Energy Pak

1979
Acrylic, rope, cardboard box, plastic containers, car parts, light parts
305.1 X 132

Wave

1979
Acrylic, wax paper, aluminum foil, cotton
61 X 92

House

1979
pencil on paper, matte board
61 X 76