I've had a lifelong compulsion to render through my hands those things that held my fascination. And many things held my fascination. Likewise, I explored many different avenues of media and techniques. Read more
Oil on canvas, 10x10, October 2021 to June 2022
This series of 21 oil paintings directs attention to those familiar body places that, by their familiarity, oftentimes escape a closer look. The intense beauty of each area demands exclusive inspection, each in its own right. But the overwhelming visual magnetism of faces and the holistic beauty of the entire body rarely provides pause for the individual places.
The compositions live in squares, which are by their nature, dictatorial in their rigidness. Juxtaposed against that are the organic human forms that are at once graphic, monolithic, and yet loaded with stored energy, much like a spring ready to release. These are not images of repose. They are charged and nearly olympian in their proportion. And yet, these are not idealizations, but real, living bodies in the height of their being, known by each of us from within.
As the body places are real, the places that they inhabit are of a more spiritual realm defined only by a horizon that adds weight and gravity to the muscles that resist it. And above the horizons are the complex radiations of that internal energy that is sensed but missed by the eyes.
