Forward Thinking

Forward Thinking.  oil, enamel, spray paint canvas  15"x15"  2016

No Title Loan Thank You Very Much

No Title Loan Thank You Very Much.  oil, enamel, spray paint canvas  21"x21"  2016

Stomp Effect

Stomp Effect.   enamel, spray paint, collage canvas  9"x9"  2016

Indian Island Bodega

Indian Island Bodega.   oil, enamel, spray paint on canvas   32"x32"   2016.

Catch & Release

Catch and Release.  oil, enamel, canvas  53" x 72" x 1.5”  2016.

Prolonged Dance

Prolonged Dance.  oil, enamel, canvas  18" x 11" x 1.5”  2016.

Young Dog Dies

Young Dog Dies.  oil, enamel, canvas  18” x 11” x 1.5”  2016.

In the Studio

In the studio with "Magic Quarter Hour" in progress.

*detail--"Magic Quarter Hour"

A detail of a new painting materializing.

"Magic Quarter Hour"

from J.D. Salinger- Seymour, An Introduction

One late afternoon, at that faintly soupy quarter of an hour in New York when the street lights have just been turned on and the parking lights of cars are just getting turned on-some on, some still off-I was playing curb marbles with a boy named Ira Yankauer, on the farther side of the side street just opposite the canvas canopy of our apartment house. I was eight. I was using Seymour's technique, or trying to-his side flick, his way of widely curving his marble at the other guy's-and I was losing steadily. Steadily but painlessly. For it was the time of day when New York City boys are much like Tiffin, Ohio, boys who hear a distant train whistle just as the last cow is being driven into the barn. At the magic quarter hour, if you lose marbles, you lose just marbles. Ira, too, I think, was properly time-suspended, and if so, all he could have been winning was marbles. Out of this quietness, and entirely in key with it, Seymour called to me.

Untitled (TRACE COMPOSITION)

Untitled (TRACE COMPOSITION).   Enamel, newspaper, pencil on found cardboard fragment

8" x 18.5"   2015

PRONG COMPOSITION

PRONG COMPOSITION.   oil, enamel, pencil, collage on newspaper  28"h x 10.5"w  2015

LONG SWELL

LONG SWELL.   oil, enamel, dirt on canvas    60"h x 11"w x 1.25"d   2015

(including details of sections)

SPLIT SEED

SPLIT SEED.   enamel, oil on canvas   10" x 10"   2015

Rockless Volume

Exhibition view of my work at Giampietro Gallery from the show, "Rockless Volume".

Studio Manifestations

Mono-ha on the mind.

From December Group Show

This installation shot is from a group show I was included in at, Fred Giampietro Gallery in December. My paintings are in the center, (top) "Luncheon On The Grass" 2014 & (bottom) "One Lump" 2014. Both are 10" x 10"  oil on canvas.

In other news, Fred Giampietro Gallery has moved!  Their new location is now at:

1064 Chapel Street

New Haven, CT 06510

203.777.7760

This is the view out their window across the street from Yale's School of Art & Architecture.

(sculpture by Anthony Caro)

Collages on Found Cardboard Fragments

UNTITLED (Swell Composition)   mixed media on found cardboard fragment   10.5" x 12"   2014

UNTITLED (Guardian Composition)   mixed media on found cardboard fragment   10.5" x 12"   2014

Collages

UNTITLED (LIME COMPOSITION)  enamel, oil, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper  11"x11"  2014

UNTITLED (HUMID COMPOSITION)  enamel, oil, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper  11"x11"  2014

UNTITLED (IRRIGATE COMPOSITION)  enamel, oil, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper  11"x11"  2014

UNTITLED (SWEAT COMPOSITION)

UNTITLED (SWEAT COMPOSITION).

Enamel, oil paint, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper.

11" x 11"   2014

Forcing House

UNTITLED (PEEL COMPOSITION).   Enamel, oil paint, oilstick, pencil, collage on newspaper.

11" x 11" 2014

UNTITLED (PULSE COMPOSITION).   Enamel, oil paint, oil stick, pencil, collage on newspaper.

11" x 11" 2014.

I'm putting together some collages for a show in January which are loosely based around a Theodore Roethke poem, Forcing House, from a collection of poems from 1948- THE LOST SON AND OTHER POEMS.

FORCING HOUSE

Vines tougher than wrists

And rubbery shoots,

Scums, mildews, smuts along stems,

Great cannas or delicate cyclamen tips,-

All pulse with the knocking pipes

That drip and sweat,

Sweat and drip,

Swelling the roots with steam and stench,

Shooting up lime and dung and ground bones,-

Fifty summers in motion at once,

As the live heat billows from pipes and pots.

Theodore Roethke.