Tag: painting
-

Love Songs – Past & Present
This past year or so, text has started showing up in my work again. During my undergrad, I worked with text in some of my paintings and it was not perhaps the most successful use of text, looking back. I kind of left it out of my practice for a long time, along with installation,…
-
Beware of Wolves
There has been a recurring motif in my work this year, and I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts on this: The Wolf. It was wholly unintentional, but the wolf has been popping up in my work all year long. It first started at the beginning of the year, when I made my…
-

Between Serendipity & Happenstance
I’ve uploaded new work to my website – my new painting Between Serendipity & Happenstance. I was talking to a friend recently about my most recent self-portrait, To Break Free (Without the Hunter), and he was asking me what the piece was about. I was somewhat reluctant to go into too much detail, as I…
-
Happy Accidents of the Swing
Earlier this spring, I started a new painting with dark looming green storm clouds. At the end of May, I posted an early sneak peek on my blog, which you can find here. The painting took a bit of a back seat over the summer and then I went away on my Ox-Bow residency. I…
-
Echoes of purple
I can’t believe how both quickly and slowly the past four weeks have gone by. I’ve got one more week here and Ox-Bow and am just finishing up my second painting. Since I work in oils, I have to give my paintings enough time to dry in order to wrap them and bring them back…