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These two large drawings are a culmination of months of dwelling on the desire to tell my personal story in coalescing the visual aspects that have been touched in the development of my work. Both “themes” originated from the last of the Unique Series where somehow the contours of one leaf and one branch found…
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Throughout my art-making years, from the beginning to where the work falls now, the subject matter of the work has vacillated from an uncertain minimalism to unquestionable surface engagement. My travels have not been intellectually easy. I wanted to land and stay put for a while and I did when the hatched line drawings prevailed.…
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Liberated Forms 1-42 evolved from the photograph series Drawing with Nature 1-100 and Drawing with Nature 101-207, which were completed in 2023. I randomly chose 42 out of the 207 because they seemed viable for moving the shapes within them. I cannot trace back these 42 images to their original state in the two aforementioned…
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This series of four drawings began haphazardly to reconcile language, image, and natural form into how they can come together sensibly. Once again I chose an Oriental screen painting format to work with this subject matter. They are each 60 inches long and 22-1/4 inches wide. The idea for a leaf “to float” started with…
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This post includes the photos I took in my studio of the drawings I did in Sol LeWitt’s studio. The photographs differ in lighting and resolution. To appreciate them without the story may now be a challenge, although, in the long run, the story of the process helps to understand them.
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After spending the winter of 2024 taking pictures of the drying leaves and flowers on my studio table, which turned into the photograph series Leaves and Flowers 1-100, 2023-24, I could only imagine myself drawing from the photographs. I am obsessed with natural form because I live in a city. And I want to make…
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The first time my work was exhibited at the CrossMackenzie Gallery was in 2012 when the gallery was located on R Street in the DuPont Circle neighborhood. The drawing introducing this post was hung at the back of the long hallway-like space. The drawing invited the viewer to come to it. No one could absorb…
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Way back when somewhere in the midst of 2023, I began the series that I thought would tell the story of my art-making since the 70s. I told the story in The Artful Mind (pages 22-31) that goes like this: In the 90s, I saw a retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns in which…
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In preparing these drawings for posting, I had to put them through Photoshop in an effort to bring the images back from the depths of poor quality. In doing so, I valiantly tried to read the year written by my signature. I managed to see two years, ’77 and ’79. It made the most sense…
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A discovery after I made Coloring Book Pages 1-42 was incorporated into the title of that series. The shapes that had been isolated with black ink lines could be seen on their own viably as mere shape, unrelated to the photographic image of which they were a part. So I decided to use a fine…
