Above Susquehanna

Landscapes Gallery

The painting of Nature is similar to the way a bird builds his nest, from the body out, the brushwork assembling the vision. Nestled in the center, the painting is only completed when it takes flight, looks back with hovering autonomy.

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Above The SusquehannaBack LawnCedarsDeer CreekDorcas CoveFirst SnowHail StormHigh Desert CanyonJervisJulySudden StormMunya's FarmMt. AraratpondRiver IslandRoof TopSummer MeadowSummer StormSunset In VermontSusquehannaThe Massive CentraleThe Red MapleWalpack Winter

Port Covington

Cityscapes Gallery

Most people think of landscape as honeybees and flowers and the circuitry of hurtling clouds in the midst of summer splendor. But the splintery wharfs and abandoned factories along the harbor have another kind of beauty, nature transforming all that funky detritus into icons of enchantment.

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Fair FieldPort CovingtonAbandoned LotArundel Sand & GravelCurtis BayDumpsterFairfield FactoryfncIndustrial YardLeaning TanksTanksLeaning TanksThe Edge Of Port CovingtonThe Yellow ShovelView From BrooklynAbandoned FactoryFactory LotSaw MillInlet FactorySheds

Jetty

Seascapes Gallery

The syntax of rock,wave and cloud establishes an anxious rapport between flux and permanence: the incessant roll of white caps against the stormy shore. The capricious shifts of weather and the relentless tidal flow give an urgency to the painterly process.

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Self Portrait Gallery

"The Self is not ossified in some permanent immutable casement, always the same, but rather manifests itself as fragments of an expandable continuum. Just as a circle can be described by an infinite number of tangents in the trajectory of its rotation, so can the Self. Startled by the jolt of introspection, self portraiture is all about the discovery of the multiplicity of one's being, shifing through the masks of time."

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Figures & Portraits Gallery

Some artists think that a likeness to the sitter is not important, so long as it resolves into a good painting. But for me likeness is tantamount. The expression of character or essence of the sitter is a most elusive abstract notion that the portraitist is trying to "capture". The painting is always going in and out of likeness. The trick is knowing where to stop it.

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Nudes Gallery

The play of light as it flows over the human body explores what is most basic to oil painting: opacities and transparencies all blending into a continuous seductive celebration. The rhetoric of flesh becomes a landscape of sorts where the singularities of truth reconcile with beauty.

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Narratives Gallery

My portraits combine into large operatic allegories — perverse, confrontational,vulgar — in which mythology and my studio on Calvert Street exist in a wacky simultaneity. Gypsies, dwarfs, nudes in boots standing by platters of fish cohabit a burlesque stage which is conjured out of the floorboards of my studio.

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Pastels Gallery

Pastels are pure color dustings, like the pollen on flowers, all glorious inspissated emanations dazzling the surface of appearance. These pastels were made along the banks and flats of the Susquehanna River where it joins the Deer Creek.

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Stll Lifes Gallery

The contrast of flowers and fish as subject matter describe the range and limits of my temperament, from surging lyrical energy to emboldened power, fraught with angst. Both seem to share in a kind of condensed painterly dishevelment that threatens to explode the convention of the motif.

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Yellow MirrorPlate Of FishLiliesGarlic FishFoo Dog FishFoo DogFlowers & MirrorFlower SolsticeFish PlatterFish Lemon PotFish MotleyFish HeadFish And Copper PotFishFan Of FlowersChinese DogBlue VaseBird, Violin

Watercolors Gallery

Watercolor is great for travel. This series, done on wayward camping trips to Southern Utah, tries to reconcile the unpredictable properties of the medium with the absolute audacity of the colors of the high desert.

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World Trade Center Gallery

In the spring of 2001, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council invited me as Artist-in-Residence to the 92nd floor of The World Trade Center. The bank of windows overlooked downtown Wall Street to the bridges along the East River connecting to Brooklyn. I painted 21 paintings. Just a few months after my residency ended, the first insidious plane came through the very windows that provided my overlook.

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Graphics Gallery

Printmaking is great for incorporating scraps of memory, obsessions and other perversities of the imagination. By reversing intentionality, the image on the page opens up new paths of wonder.

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Drawings Gallery

Drawing begins in blindness; hand, eye, mind snatch fragments from the world of appearances.Each take is a collision with that world. It is a history of accidents which is fated, a tension between suspense and resolution.A good drawing creates Sight a mirror of the world in which we recognize ourselves.

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