Tuesday
19Jan2010

Protection

4.5” × 6”

Thursday
07Jan2010

Fillet

6” × 4.5”

Tuesday
29Dec2009

Cloak

4.5” × 6”

Thursday
03Dec2009

Escarpment

4.5” × 6”

Tuesday
10Nov2009

Impostor

6” × 4.5”

Friday
30Oct2009

Dream

Before I post my next series of paintings, which is taking more time than I thought, I’m going to post a few more pieces from the eBay series. Some of these were made a few years ago, others more recently. This one seems appropriate for Halloween.

4.5” × 6”

Friday
18Sep2009

iPlanaria

Most artists have jobs outside of the work we do in our studios. Some of us teach, lead tour groups in museums, do decorative painting, publish books, write, etc. Since art sales have slowed like most everything else in this economy, I’ve decided to pander to crass consumerism in order to support my art habit.

Bookmark the Items page and stop back occasionally for new offerings, or sign up on my email list (write ‘Items’ in the subject line), then you’ll know when something new is available. Thanks!

The first item up for grabs is the iPlanarian, in a small edition. It’s a carrying case you wear across your body that falls at your hip and has a concealed pocket in the back for your iPhone or iPod Touch. I hope you think it’s as funny as I do. Click here for pictures and more info.

Wednesday
26Aug2009

Pleaconomy: Frog

Image 12” × 12”
Paper 21” × 21”
Color pencil
2009

Tuesday
11Aug2009

Pleaconomy: Robot

Image 12” × 12”
Paper 21” × 21”
Color pencil
2009

A brief statement is here. Thanks for your visit.

Wednesday
29Jul2009

Pleaconomy: Penguin

Image 12” × 12”
Paper 21” × 21”
Color pencil
2009

For a brief statement and where to see it, scroll down one entry or click here.

Tuesday
21Jul2009

Pleaconomy: Chicken

It’s summer and I’ve started a new series — but this isn’t it.

These ‘Pleaconomy’ drawings are a way to make a polite comment, with a subdued undercurrent of frustration, on how much harder it is for ‘downsized’ workers of a certain age to find meaningful employment in this economy. Layoffs, furloughs, downsizing - it’s happened to too many people I know. So, the tin toys here have been reconfigured to highlight their most endearing aspects. These toys used to be the height of desirability, but now need to ‘try harder’ to please us, like job-seekers in the laid-off workforce.

Pleaconomy: Chicken
Color pencil on paper
Image 12” × 12”
Paper 21” × 21”
2009

This group of four drawings is at Sera Davis’s gallery in Tennessee. Thanks!

Wednesday
22Apr2009

Charade

Image size 11” × 11”
Paper size 21” × 21”
Oil on paper, 2008

Tuesday
31Mar2009

Entrant

Image size 11” × 11” Paper size 21” × 21”
Oil on paper, 2008

Tuesday
24Feb2009

Travail

Image size 11” × 11” paper size 21” × 21”
Oil on paper, 2008

Monday
02Feb2009

Pique

Image size 11” × 11” paper size 21” × 21”
Oil on paper, 2008

Thursday
08Jan2009

Sub rosa

Image size 11” × 11” paper size 21” × 21”
Oil on paper, 2008

Tuesday
16Dec2008

Aging

Image size 11” × 11” paper size 21” × 21”
Oil on paper, 2008

Wednesday
03Dec2008

Flap

Image size 11” × 11”, paper size 21” × 21”
Oil on paper, 2008

Monday
24Nov2008

Medlar

Even though there are more eBay paintings, the last one I posted (Sink) seemed to sum up the ‘consumer economy’ with a certain finality given our economic crisis, so I’ve moved on to other ideas. The ‘Medlar’ image is from a new grouping of drawings that I’ll try to post weekly for the next few months. Here’s a stab at a statement:

In this recent group of work, reconfigured passages from illuminated manuscripts have been stacked together with items for sale on eBay. I’ve produced separate bodies of work from both these sources previously, and here I’m exploring the similarities in both sets of source material at once. Not surprisingly, these similarities reflect what was culturally valuable in the past (in the illuminations) as well as what remains valuable to people today (in the eBay references), but the interesting thing to me is that the common threads don’t congeal into squishy, feel-good viewpoints such as ‘people are all the same no matter what’ or ‘human values continue throughout time.’ Instead, what seems most apparent in both sources is the relentlessly surreal quality of human behavior and thought, and this becomes the sentiment that guides the imagery.

Image size 11” × 11”, paper size 21” × 21”

Friday
17Oct2008

Sink