About the Work

Having made representational art for years, 9/11 was transformational in my work. Its impact pulled space apart, into multiple representations on one canvas. Eventually these separations defined themselves in their own right, birthing their own divisions, to tell the story in a different form. 

The gouache/ink works on paper were begun during Covid isolation. They represent obsession, pattern, and space, and invite the eye to follow.  A few include dramatic architecture of the city in shadow, where they depict a city embraced by the  minimalist geometric forms surrounding them, in a meeting of invented realities. They all reflect unity and the psychology of interrelationships, through proximity and repetition. Narrative interpretations are informed by the space they inhabit, with regard to their layering, order and disorder. Inside the divisions are invitations of choice, complication and experience. The abstract becomes the realities of expectation and experience. These same themes are universally seen in the paintings as well.

The earlier paintings were the originator of these concepts: the strong elements are positive statements, with excitement and surprise, taking you in, or turning the eye from the canvas itself. They preserve joy and give it away.  How one is lost, and how one is found. 

Humor, irony and a cultural wink can be found in the sculptures using lost, then found objects.  Some are secret, some obvious, all transmute canvas into three dimensions.  And through our child within, they treasure animal life and all life.