Solstice 30” x 40”
Wild and Earthy 40” x 30”
California Icon 36” x 36”
The White Clock 36” x 36”
Self in Satin 30” x 24”
In Perfect Harmony 40” x 30”
The Romantics 30” x 40” Sold
Inner Space 30” x 40”
Wicker Moon 36” x 36”
Tulips and Driftwood 36” x 36”
The Yellow Ball 24” x 24”
The Sand Hill 58" x 39"
Madonna of the Roses 20” x 24”
Intimacy 40” x 30” Sold
Sunrise at Boot Pond 24” x 24”
Summer Heat 50” x 36”
Rock Face 24” x 30”
Primal Space 40” x 30”
The Playing Field 57” x 70”
The Bronze Dog 36” x 36”
Elysian Fields 30” x 40”
Back to Back 30” x 40”
Bette 36” x 36”
The Techie 30” x 24”
Number 13 36” x 60“ Sold
Two Dogs and the Sea 36” x 48”
Golden Pears 30” x 40”
The Headstone 30” x 40”
Iconic Palava 48” x 35”
Two Limes in a Black Bowl 36” x 48”
A Matter of Consent 48” x 36”
Double Image 48” x 60”
Patterns of Discourse 36” x 48”
Apparition 24” x 24” Sold
Summer at the Beach 24” x 30”
In the Measure of Things 24” x 30”
Cardiff Beach 14” x 18”
Primal Cry. 30” 24”
Out With the Tide 24”x 30”
Sun Bleached. 23” x 24”
Reflections 30” x 24”
Family Portrait 44” x 54”
I look at the world with its melanin consciousness and its differentiations between male and female and I think what is it all about? So I play in a subversive way with these strange codings while building personal fantasies about what really exists and then I break the codes in subliminal ways.
I grew up in a pine forest in New England and studied oil painting at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. There I was trained in the exacting European traditions brought by artists who fled from Europe and its nightmares. I was wrenched from this life of creativity to live in virtual isolation for many years in a Quaker community in the jungles of Costa Rica. During that time I immersed myself in literature, philosophy and social conceits.
Art was not only the central gift of my childhood but put me on a path that eventually led me to earn a BA in 1988 from UCSD, followed by an MFA from Cal State Fullerton - where I taught a class in Beginning Painting in the fall of 1993.
Essentially my work is about people, their appearance, their confusions, their inability to be at peace. Man and his ability to reason and make choices is the standard and root of all art, whether figurative or abstract.
I have exhibited in juried and invitational exhibitions in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. My work has been in juried exhibits in the Galleria OtraVez. the San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, the California Center for the Arts, the Oceanside Museum of Art, and in invitational exhibitions at the Downey Art Museum, the Irvine Fine Arts Center, MiraCosta College and Southwestern College.
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