Here are a few small drawings from last month. These are two stage drawings, the color first then the black. These explore chaotic evolution similar to the way my prints compare figures by overlay.
These are about 3″x4″ each.…
Three new paintings to post. I have been working on these for awhile, about a month I guess. There have been a couple things going on but more on that later. I will be posting about some new drawings too shortly. The next pieces will be really big again, but I wanted to get a few small ones done before I got caught up in a big project. I have sketched a whole book so far in preparation for these next large pieces and these were 3 faces caught my eye but were better suited to this smaller size. …
Hard to believe it’s the end of March and this is the first painting of 2012, Number 423. I have been focused on the prints since January so I haven’t spent much time actually painting. It’s been a lot of fun but I needed to paint. I am still planning a giant painting on this roll of canvas I have.The plan has been to go very heavily multilinear on that since I will have space to put a lot of lines.…
My recent multi-linear paintings have all overlaid intersecting lines to create specific figures. These have all been specific choices and also immediately whole; meaning that I draw the figure all at once and specifically choose which lines overlay when painting. The recent series of prints have involved multiple separate whole figures overlaid to mimic the multi-linear effect of the paintings.
I say these are immediately whole because the drawings are done all at once in one continuous motion, and the overlay is chosen after, when I am painting.…
So after the great reception I got for the Number 24 Prints in November, I resolved to make more prints in the new year. Specifically new prints, not just reprints of my older work, although I probably will do a few of those too. I originally had this plan to do crazy complex designs from a very complicated drawing, but the drawing fluid does not handle like paint and I found that the results were not optimal. So I chose to paint new designs directly onto the screens and experiment with overlays, similar to my recent multi-linear paintings. …
Here are the 4 pieces I completed for the 12×12 exhibit at Golden Belt:
All of the work for this show had to be 12×12 inches. I do not normally work in a square aspect so I had to get a little creative. My first inclination was to do square drawings as these pieces are easy to adapt to different sizes. My paintings tend to be rectangular in shape and 12 inches is smaller than most paintings I have done.…
The name of the show, “Further Complications” relates to several things going on with me right now. It describes the increased complexity of the figures in the paintings. It reflects the increased scope of work, for example the super grid. It relates to my thinking about art this last year of isolation. It describes the current economic realities that we are all dealing with and the uncertainty of national and global politics. In essence the culmination of all these forces.
Further Complications in the Figures
People familiar with my process know that I do many sketches for each painting. …