a crowd of small metamorphoses

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea, oil on canvas, 20" x 20" 

              I recently had an invitational solo exhibition 464 Gallery in Buffalo, NY.   I see this work as a turning point for me.  It reaches into the interior -- not just in subject matter, but in concept and in my technique.  Moving beyond the concrete building facades, I am really looking to find the painting as opposed to recording the objects.  This body of work is all about the shifting nature of time, place, and painting.  It is an exploration of instants and history.    I have engaged the painting process, influenced by Degas, Diebenkorn, Uglow, Saville, and Kanevsky, to conduct a visual examination of Jean Paul Sartre’s reflections on existence in the novel Nausea – the instants annihilated, the inability to hold anything as solid.  Oil allows for erasures, pentimenti, revealing transparencies, and covering impastos.  I paint an entire image, scrape or turp away, and then repeat the process.  There are always remnants in the layers.  A piece comes into being, looks complete, and then is destroyed to make way for another story.  Upon stopping a painting, each new viewing and viewer brings forth a combination of shifting past, present, and future reflections.  This body of work is ongoing.    I hope you enjoy the first installation of work from "A Crowd of Small Metamorphoses"  --- more to come mid-April at Starlight Studios and Gallery in Buffalo, NY.

a crowd of small metamorphoses, oil on canvas, 36" x 36"

It slides by interminably, yellow as mud, oil on canvas, 20" x 20"

into the lure of the mirror, oil on canvas, 20" x 20"

on the surface of solitude, oil on canvas 24" x 36"

the irreversibility of time, oil on canvas, 22" x 48"

Something is beginning, oil on canvas, 90" x 60"