 Widower/Gardener, 2025 Mixed media on canvas - 30” x 48”
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MEAN CANDY:
PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS THIS EXHIBIT WAS ON DISPLAY AT VERMILLION GALLERY & BAR, SEATTLE, WA, FEBRUARY 2025 For these works, I chose an intentionally jarring palette of pinks, lavenders, and teal to clash with the implied violence and subtle grief of my subject matter. Each of these works started with a meditation on an image extracted from a 50-year-old small-town newspaper. I was struck by the contrast between the innocent positivity conveyed by captions such as, “Mrs. Eugene Berhow brings her son, Toby, to visit relatives in Bethany Manor” and the photo of mother and son looking absurdly—almost desperately—upset. |
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SLEEPWALKERS & THOSE WHO NEVER SLEEP
Mixed media paintings & drawings exhibited at Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA in Spring 2024 Synthesizing inspiration from dream fragments, images from 70s-era encyclopedias and family photographs, this eight-year cycle of paintings and drawings conveys a sense of heartbreak, mystery and impending violence. Paintings: Initial marks were made with compressed charcoal and a wash of linseed oil with oil-stick accents. Layers of oil paint, additional charcoal, spray paint and paint pen were added intuitively over a period of years, sometimes with eyes closed. Drawings were made with a similar process—ink, markers, paint pens and watercolor. |
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MIXED MEDIA DRAWINGS
MIXED MEDIA PAINTINGS
1990s OIL PAINTINGS
