Mixed-media drawings on paper made between 2010 and 2014, and exhibited at Uncommon Ground in Chicago August - October, 2014. All of these drawings are improvisational (in surrealist terms: automatic), and without an intent to represent a subject. Inevitably, some familiarity begins to emerge.
What a pretty speech, a pity no one was listening
You'd make me laugh if it weren't prohibited.
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
Another day done with.
I missed you...and at the same time I was happy.
Isn't that a queer thing?
Thanks be to God, by my side I behold
The sleeping form of Sir Ubu the Bold.
If I were you I'd try to get that ass sitting on a throne.
One is not master of one's moods.
So you want to stay as poor as a church mouse, Mr. Ubu?
Poor boy, he would have let himself be cut in half for my sake.
How did such a crummy creature as you ever get slapped together?
by the rivers running water running fire
Do I have to repeat myself? I intend to get rich, I won't fork out a penny.
You and your landscapes!
Will night never come?
With this system, I'll soon make a fortune; then I'll kill everyone in the world, and go away.
Then all the dogs came running and they dug the dog a tomb.
Great God, I'm dead! No, I'm all right after all.
Oof! I hardly dare look back!
Look after yourself my friend. Everyone will have his turn to get eaten.
Digital pixelations of photographs, exhibited at Uncommon Ground in Chicago in 2015, and supplemented in 2017. As I have come to in all of the work, I am interested in the degree to which an image can be abstracted beyond recognition, but still retain a strange familiarity.
Los Angeles
Indiana Dunes
Los Angeles
Chicago
San Miguel de Allende
Campo de Fiori
Boston (night)
Indiana Dunes
Regensberg
Chicago (autumn)
Portland
Chicago (night)
ORD-PDX
South Loop (night)
Ocean City
A series of gouache paintings on paper, made between 2008-2010, and exhibited in the show PAPER at the Beverly Art Center in Chicago, 2010. All are improvisational and based on dreamed and remembered images.
Number 3 - Walking Boy
Number 13
Number 4
Number 5
Number 6
Number 10
Number 12
Number 9
Number 14
Number 25
Number 8 - Florida
Number 22 - Storm
Number 26 - Bill Evans
Number 15 - Reclining Figure
Number 2
Number 17
Number 19
Number 20
Explorations in Oil.
Figure in Landscape
City Landscape
Red Warehouse
City Landscape
Reclining Figure
Still Life
Ireland Landscape 1
Ireland Landscape 2
Ireland Landscape 3
Dunes Beach
City Landscape
Kedzie Ramp
Meadow
Studies and explorations in Oil, most of which are smaller than 8" square.
Blue Period #3
Blue Period #2
Blue Period #1
Blue Period #3
Blue Period #4
Color Study
Landscape Composition
Landscape Composition
Small Landscape
Small Landscape
Small Oil 1
Small Oil 2
Small Oil 3
Small Oil 4
Small Oil 5
Smaller drawings on paper to explore mixed media, tonal and compositional studies.
Study 01
Study 02
Study 03
Study 04
Study 05
Study 06
Study 07
Study 08
Study C
Study E
Study D
Study F
Study J
Black 01
Black 03
Black 04
Drawings on paper, mostly of characters I find compelling, but also a few self portraits.
Rostenkowski
Stravinski
MIles
Robert Johnson
Frank O'Hara
Zappa
My Father
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Man (after Avedon)
Woman (after Avedon)
Digital and manual collage. As much fun to make as they are to look at.
nature = culture
compassion
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (after Correggio)
Love Letter
Rokeby Venus, Variation 1 (Velazquez)
Rokeby Venus, Variation 3 (Velazquez)
Type One
Type Two
Type Four
Type Six
Paintings made on an iPad, using the ArtRage program.
Rhein Valley
Aleutian Coast
Scissors
Unknown Landscape
Architecture vs. Nature
The Personality of a Thought
Unknown Landscape
Strange Wildlife
Internal Affairs
At the cafe...
Smells like Spring
Dunescape
Forest Event
a dream with some authority
Dark Entries
Selected figure drawings of a favorite model.
JD - 372
JD - 371
JD - 369
JD - 187
JD - 188
JD - 189
JD - 184
JD - 008
JD - 022
JD - 025
JD - 038
JD - 124
JD - 040
JD - 043
JD - 077
JD - 046
JD - 185
JD - 135
JD - 076
JD - 081
Selected figure drawings of a favorite model.
HP - 179
HP - 266
HP - 180
HP - 150
HP - 146
HP - 148
HP - 149
HP - 178
HP - 177
HP - 267
HP - 263
HP - 174
HP - 264
HP - 151
HP - 145
HP - 144
Selected figure drawings of a favorite model.
CK - 080
CK - 280
CK - 281
CK - 288
CK - 286
CK - 313
CK - 348
CK - 347
CK - 346
CK - 345
CK - 343
CK - 351
CK - 353
CK - 382
CK - 383
CK - 384
CK - 447
CK - 448
CK - 452
CK - 453
A selection of drawings, prints and miscellany from the past.
Industry
Viaduct
Germany Landscape
Hole
Viaducts
Paris
Paris
Street
Ecstacy
Figure (after Weston)
Swimming Boy
Woman Smoking
The Unbelievable Truth (after Hartley)
Germany Landscape
Mountain Road
Lake Michigan
Figure (reflected)
Men Bathing
sights for sore eyes
arriving chicago
arriving chicago
arriving chicago
arriving chicago
ORD-LAX (1)
ORD-LAX (2)
Potomac
south boston
PDX (1)
st elmo's fire
boston
suburban facade
DTLA
eye of the beholder
body talk
420
columbia
