studio snap shot

I should probably wait to share this until I get a professional photo taken - or until I finish it. Almost done...

Open Studios May 4, 2014

Find me at 59 Wareham St., Second Floor

Studio snap shots. New piece.

about 48" x 55"

new work

untitled from the series beyond|return   55”x67”   2013

untitled from the series Spot Pond   61”x55”   2013

untitled from the series Spot Pond   47”x54”   2014

untitled from the series beyond|return   53”x55”   2014

untitled from the series beyond|return   40”x26”   2014

untitled from the series beyond|return   40”x26”   2014

untitled from the series beyond|return   40”x26”   2014

untitled from the series beyond|return   66”x55”   2014

untitled from the series beyond|return   30”x22”   2013

untitled from the series beyond|return   30”x22”   2013

Grand Canyon   40"x26"   2013

untitled from the series Spot Pond   63”x55”   2013

untitled from the series Spot Pond   70”x55”   2013

Straight Canyon   30"x22"   2013

Landscape and Memory at Cambridge Center for Adult Education

This piece will will be on display from Monday March 3 through Thursday April 17 at the Cambridge Center for Adult Ed (42 Brattle St in Harvard Square)
30% of sales go to CCAE, so GO BUY ART!

Untitled from Spot Pond Series, 30"x22", $1,000

new images of finished work

untitled from the series beyond|return, 55"x67"

Straight Canyon, 90"x55"

untitled from the series Spot Pond, 63"x55"

untitled from the series Spot Pond, 55"x43"

I started a new tall piece tonight.

Reception this Tuesday!

new series, new statement

In my latest series of landscape drawings, beyond|return, I pay attention to the places where pattern overwhelms itself and breaks down, as well as the moments when chaos falls into a rhythm. I look at details and see patterns that stretch back for decades, millennia. They stretch forward too. To see a pattern fall apart all you really need to do is change perspective, take longer view, or maybe a closer one.

My drawings begin with observations. I notice how the landscape shifts around me as I move through it. I notice how bunches of leaves that start as a group separate out and become silhouettes of individual leaves, before becoming a group again. When I walk my dog I notice the interactions between geometric shadows cast by rooftops, telephone poles, and wires, and the organic shapes cast by trees. I notice that on trash day there is an extra pattern on the street, a pattern that emerges and then disappears one day every week.

My observations lead to plein air drawings and photographs of the landscape. Using opaque and transparent paints as well as dry media, I create large landscape drawings based on the observed, drawn, and photographed landscape.

While my motivation - or impulse - is visual, bringing the groundless aspect of my landscape drawings to the suburbs speaks of the instability of the stability seeker's haven, suburbia. I think it also speaks to my own desire for stability in the form of a house nestled amongst some trees. 

I don't have any photos of this new series yet, but here are some of the source images I am working from. 

Abstract Landscape is now open in Charlestown!

Two new pieces from the Spot Pond series

 

Both of these pieces will be included in my upcoming show with Sand T Kalloch.

beyond|return

Here is some info about my show at the Middlesex School in Concord, MA. 
https://www.mxschool.edu/news-events/article/2013/september/beyondreturn-visiting-artist

There will be a reception with an informal artist talk on Friday the 27th, from 6 to 9pm.

Busy Fall!

I will be participating in Open Studios, I'm at 59 Wareham St on the 2nd floor.

I also have two shows this fall. Tomorrow, Sept. 4th, I will be installing a solo show in the Cornelious Ayer Wood Gallery at the Middlesex School in Concord, MA. Later this month my work will go up in a two person show, with Sand T Kalloch, at the McGladrey Gallery in Charlestown.

Spot Pond Installation Shots