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Welcome to my web site.
The images in my portfolio on this site are mixed media works I've completed
within the past two years. Some are on canvas and some are on panel.
More specifically,
on the canvas works I use charcoal, acrylic, and in some cases, collage. The charcoal is fixed and layered with clear acrylic
medium which enables me to paint up to and sometimes over the charcoal in layers. All are coated with an acrylic medium which
preserves and protects the painting.
On the paper works, I laminate paper to panel, execute an acrylic wash, draw on
that with charcoal, and then fix the drawing in stages, applying several coats of acrylic media. There is no glass needed
to frame the works on paper because the surface is sealed and resilient, leaving a beautiful, sensuous texture. In effect,
they are drawings on paper but every bit as finished and protected as a painting on canvas.
| "Sphere"(Collection of Fine Art Museum, Santa Fe) |
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| mixed media on canvas, 48x48", 2007. |
The series I am working on now are all figurative works. I am most interested
in the human form and in particular the male. These images come from my interest in pursuing a realistic depiction of the
male body and of the less-than-perfect body type as opposed to the glamorized male youth so prominent in our mass media.
They are all self-portraits as I strive to look at my own body with an artist's eye, analyzing the flaws within the form,
the changes wrought by age, and the compositions of the flesh.
I am also interested in the subtlety of gesture and what we say with our hands and body movements. How we touch each
other and how we touch ourselves are of particular interest to me. The communication that comes with gesture and the expression
we convey through our bodies and hands is profound and fascinating.
Another
aspect of my work is that of composing the body as landscape. By framing my compositions the way I do, I strive for an unconventional
way of viewing the form in a broader "landscape" context. The "peaks, valleys, and lines" of our bodies are as venerable
to me as the grandest of landscapes.
I have no desire to be a photo-realist in the execution of my work. I am much more interested in the representation
of form in a more ethereal way and also blending that into the realm of abstract and two-dimensional space. I want viewers
to be aware of the contrast between three dimensional forms juxtaposed with planar surface and texture.
I hope with this series to inspire people to look at the male human body as the natural, beautiful form that it is. Just
as the feminie body has been idolized as the representaion of beauty for centuries, the male body also embodies beauty, aesthetic
canons, and symbolic ideals.
(Click on the "Works on Canvas" and
the "Works on Paper" links at the top of the page to see the work.)
| The artist in his studio. |
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