Skate, acrylic paint & medium on panel, 10"x14" 2003
The paintings and drawings on this site are the fruit of my 25-year exploration of the boundaries between photography and painting.
Photographs are clear windows that beguile with an apparent ability to impartially capture a subject and document its story. They're invisible frames around specific times and places.
By contrast, a painting’s impression is a material record of intuition, made through time with colored goop squeezed from tubes. Painting has subjective material immediacy. A painting is the window.
The work you’ll find here traces a fusion of these two different kinds of visual "windows".
By playing painting off photography, deeper and more personal questions are thrown into relief. Memory, lost and reconstituted, mysteries of perception, comprehension and belief are raised and submerged with paint.
Photographs are clear windows that beguile with an apparent ability to impartially capture a subject and document its story. They're invisible frames around specific times and places.
By contrast, a painting’s impression is a material record of intuition, made through time with colored goop squeezed from tubes. Painting has subjective material immediacy. A painting is the window.
The work you’ll find here traces a fusion of these two different kinds of visual "windows".
By playing painting off photography, deeper and more personal questions are thrown into relief. Memory, lost and reconstituted, mysteries of perception, comprehension and belief are raised and submerged with paint.
