As subjects evolve, my interest in the process of gathering meaning from an unfamiliar visual situation remains the content of my work. The successful paintings prompt an urge to interpret or infer “meaning” even while they may not be definitively understood at a conscious level. The paintings become lively and interactive when one’s instinctive search for meaning clashes with the painting’s resistance to the same.
What I hope for above all is to make a painting that one will return to as if to continue a conversation, a painting that surprises, a painting I have never seen before.
Below are some paintings made 2020-23:
“…If it seems right to me, then it has a meaning, but I can’t tell you what meaning. I can’t be more specific than that.” Joan Mitchell
“A 3 x 5 Array”, 2020. Oil, enamel, gold leaf on wood, each 8”x10”
“The Planets”, 2020. Oil, enamel, gold leaf on wood, each 8”x10”