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I don’t remember ever having drawn on canvas except in Graduate School at CalArts. John Baldessari happened to come into my studio and see a drawing on canvas that I had just finished. He said that he loved it. This statement coming from someone who fought to keep me out of Graduate School. Paul Brach,…
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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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In the early 80s, my motivic concerns became geometric. Like some teetering-on-middle-age artists, I was trying to figure out how I could put myself in the world, now that I had a child and was rolling through life, raising my boy, in a big house in the country. Life was, to put it simply, not…
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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…
