new artworks.

i am starting to prep for a show in june with alex gruttadaro at joe bean coffee on university ave.

here is the first batch of paintings that i have completed for that show.

i am enjoying working the combined found surfaces, trying to find a balance where it looks as though the works have been excavated from within a wall, found under peeling wallpaper, or put together from objects left behind from the middle of the 20th century.

these works mark a new direction for me as i veer away from straight portraiture into something more painterly and less specifically about the subject. i have been inspired specifically by the work of mid-century painters richard diebenkorn, jasper johns and robert rauschenberg, along with contemporary artists vhils and best ever.

"raised"

"cyclical"

"segregation"

"the glow"

"shroud"

"transcendence"

"golden"

"laying back"

"blue skies"