Recent Paintings
"Compunction" (2022 No.12, state 07), oil on canvas, 57⅛x66½ inches
"Reclamation" (2022 No.12, state 18), oil on canvas. 53⅝x56⅛ inches
"Catapult" (2022 No.10, state 6), oil on canvas, 60¾x 56¾ inches
"Mousehole" (2022 No.9, state 09), oil on canvas, 55¼x58⅞ inches
"Shape of Things to Come" (2022 No.8, state 4), oil on canvas, 53x55 inches
"Crevice" (2022 No.7, state 10), oil on canvas, 41⅜x57½ inches
"Camouflage" (2022 No.6, state 13), oil on canvas, 41¼x58½ inches
"Pillar" (2022 No.5, state 02), oil on canvas, 45¼ x 46½
"Shadowland" (2022 No.4, state 6), oil on canvas, 48¼ x47¼ inches
"Castle" (2022 No.3, state 14), oil on canvas, 60x58⅜ inches
"Four Definitions" (2022 No.2, state 05), oil on canvas, 58⅝x54⅝ inches, {"I am reminded of four definitions: A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted—in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest—at the command—of his head." -Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), radio address to "New York Herald Tribune Forum", 26 October 1939}
"Silence, Exile, and Cunning" (2022 No.1, state 13), oil on canvas, 48x57 inches, {"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning." - James Joyce (1882-1941), "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916)}
"Reader" (2021 No.10), oil on canvas, 56x62¼ inches
"Measure Anew" (2021 No.9, state 06), oil on canvas, 54½x54⅛ inches, {"I had become a new person; and those who knew the old person laughed at me. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went in with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." -George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Man and Superman" (1903)}
"Find a Man" (2021 No.8), oil on canvas, 56x59½ inches, {"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to find an author, and we find a man." -Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), "Pensées", 29 (1670)}
"Fool's Cap Too Long" (2021 No.6, state 3), oil on canvas, 63x57¾ inches, {"We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions.... But life is a sincerity. In lucid intervals we say, 'Let there be an entrance for me into realities, I have worn the fool's cap too long.'" - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Use of Great Men," from the collection of essays, "Representative Men" (1850)}
"Gonna Speak to the Crowd" (2021 No.5, state 25), oil on canvas, 64¾x57½ inches, {"I'm gonna spare the defeated — I'm gonna speak to the crowd. I'm gonna spare the defeated, boys, I'm going to speak to the crowd. I am goin' to teach peace to the conquered. I'm gonna tame the proud." - Bob Dylan, "Lonesome Day Blues" (2001)}
"No Living Thing Can Exist Without It" (2021 No.3, state 10), oil on canvas, 58x56 inches, {"Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it." - Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" (1958)}
"In the Lost Negative" (2021 No.2, state 8), oil on canvas, 49¾ x58½ inches {We only live between before we are and what we were. In the lost negative you exist... Three ages in a flash: the same child in the same picture, he, I, you..." - Robert Lowell, "For Sheridan"}
"Stubborn & Egotistical" (2020 No.4), oil on canvas, 67½x55 inches {"If we've learned anything from the best-selling 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' children's book series, it's that those who see themselves surrounded by idiots are usually idiots themselves." -Jakob Augstein, "Stubborn and Egotistical" (Spiegel Online, 3/25/2013)}
"Amidst a Falling World" (2020 No.3), oil on canvas, 66¼x57¼ inches {"Should the whole frame of nature around him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world." - Horace (65-8BC), "Odes", book 3, no.4, I.52)}