Cellist And Drummer, 48” x 59.5”, oil on canvas, 2022
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48” x 96”, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2021. I have primed the canvases to retain their raw color while creating a unique surface and texture. The painting is comprised of two canvases, each measuring 48” x 48”, stretched over panels that I constructed.
Exposure Assessment No. 4
Gallery view. The painting is 8 feet wide and 4 feet tall, one of my largest paintings to date.
Detail of the left panel.
Detail of the right panel.
Detail of a portion of background.
Detail of people.
Detail of people.
Detail of texture.
36” x 48”, oil and acrylic on faux snakeskin, 2020
I Can't Breathe
This painting references Picasso’ Guernica (which he created as a reaction to the bombing of the city in 1937). I painted it in 2020 as a reaction to the multiple forces piling upon each other at the same time making it difficult to breathe: the pandemic, the smoky air from the raging California fires, and the murder of George Floyd by police.
Painting detail: a bighorn sheep on a peak in the midst of smoke. I had recently gone backpacking in the Angeles National Forest and saw wild bighorn sheep. Just a few weeks later, the forest in that area burned (the Bobcat Fire) and I hoped the wildlife found ways to survive.
Another detail.