News from the Studio

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

 ~ Edgar Degas

I could devote a whole newsletter to artist's quotes and observations. 

Notes from a shape shifter: 

My internal dialogue with color, shape, drawing and painting continues. In the course of a painting, forms expand, flex themselves and sometimes refuse to play in the sandbox with the other forms. I'll toss up a half witted shape idea with a heavy bodied paint mixture because I like the ability to draw with the paint. This corporeality of shape challenges my assumptions about what painting is, how it evolves within its own logic. 

Below you'll see new paintings and mixed media completed since the last issue. 

The Magic of Hiding

Oil on Canvas, 40" x 30", 2021

The Point Where Shallow Ends

Oil on Canvas, 3' x 4', 2021

Comfort of the User

Mixed Media on Paper, 24" x 19", 2021

Spin Shot

Mixed Media on Paper, 17" x 14", 2021

In 2021, my work on paper attempts to find a balance between implicit marks and inherited materials from mid century catalogs and discarded coloring books. My work on paper is absorbed in white space, accentuating the contours of shape and enlivening the line used to describe form. The work contains elements customized to add harmony within disparity and titled with a commonly used expression to add a layer of meaning.

From beginning to end

A quick look at the evolution of a painting. 

Sliding Down the Sides, Oil on Canvas, 40" x 30". 

How Soutine Showed de Kooning a Way Out

by John Yau, Hyperallergic

Once in a while I'll read an article about an artist and return to read it again. 

“The one issue that I had with the presentation was that the wall labels never mentioned cubism. The reason this bothered me was because Soutine's tornado-like landscapes, glutinous paint, and unembellished brushstrokes showed de Kooning a way to leave the logic of cubism's planar geometry” ~ John Yau

I ran across this Fine Line Applicator with a fine tip. I'm not a product spokesperson. I wanted to share a practical use I found for it. 

I use Yes Paste to glue my collage elements to my mixed media pieces and occasionally miss an edge during the gluing process. I've been using this to apply additional glue needed without smudging excess glue around the edge of the piece. 

Fineline Applicator

Represented by Jen Tough Gallery 

Represented by Sager Braudis Gallery

The January Exhibit Sager Braudis Gallery January 2021

Phenomenon: Contemporary Abstraction May 2021

Wild Lands: Online Exhibit coming Summer 2021