About Vin

Howard County
I began painting 40 years ago, and I switched primarily to working in video about 30 years ago. While I often return to painting, I remain fascinated with the power and flexibility of the video medium. As it advances technologically, video continues to provide me with the means to "paint in time". The impact and quality of the still image is still very important to me, however, and I choose to display many still frames from my videos here in these project arrays.

I've been creating… more

Diptychs

Small and Large Scale Diptychs:

metal leaf, plaster, oil, acrylic, lacquer, car paint on canvas & board
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  • Pedicure
    Pedicure
    oil on canvas 58x68
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Selected Drawings & Paintings

A selection of paintings and drawings from 2012.
  • Caligula
    Caligula
    vector modified image for print
  • Monad
    Monad
    graphite on paper 18 in.
  • Untitled
    Untitled
    printing ink, spraypaint, on paper 32 x 32 in. (flat)
  • Up
    Up
    spray paint on laminated paper 16 x 24 in.
  • Stay
    Stay
    spray paint on laminated paper 16 x 24 in.
  • Student Council 1980 (detail)
    Student Council 1980 (detail)
    acrylic, ink, colored pencil on found photograph
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    Student Council 1980
    acrylic, ink, colored pencil on found photograph 38 x 24 in.
  • Play Along
    Play Along
    tempera on paper. 10 x 8 in.
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    (as yet untitled) 2013
    (detail) graphite on paper. 210x021 in.
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    (as yet untitled) 2013
    graphite on paper. 21 x 21 in.

New Work

Various new work, sizes, techniques & compositions
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    7-late-night--80x60.jpg
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    6-rumspringa--42x48.jpg
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    4-english-fenscape--60x80.jpg
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    2-opulence--40x60.jpg
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To create this image I took a dowel and cut it into an even number of pieces. I painted each piece with black and white paint. Every segment has an inverse segment painted as its opposite. If all of the segments were arranged back in a straight line it would be continuous, with no gaps. This piece is about completion and dispersion.
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    More or Less the Same
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    More or Less the Same
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    More or Less the Same
    Each segment was photographed individually and arranged digitally.
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Dawning Series

Seascape, Skyscape, Landscape study

metal leaf, jesso, oil, metallic plaster
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it's all rubbish

Textures and shapes found in alley trash piles and gutters. Expressive of the ways I feel bound, caught and trapped by my disease. And yet I find beauty in what is wasted.
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Sculptoral paintings, painterly sculptures

As a resident artist in Hungary I produced many wall hanging porcelain forms. Once back in Baltimore I began to find places for them by painting wooded panels and adhering them permanently to the surface. These works are very lighthearted, as I see them as fun sketches, a way for me to explore color and pattern that will later be applied to a larger surface, as part of an installation.
  • 20 Fan Deaths
    20 Fan Deaths
    8'x 7' x 6' wood, blanket, pillow, fans
  • Going Up
    Going Up
    Painted wood, with porcelain and flocking, 4' x 2'
  • square
    square
    painted wood with porcelain, 2' x 3'
  • Grid
    Grid
    Painted wood with porcelain and flocking, 2' x 2'
  • Circle Circle, Dot Dot
    Circle Circle, Dot Dot
    painted wood with porcelain, 1' x 2'
  • Rings
    Rings
    painted wood with porcelain and flocking, 1' x 2'
  • Nelson
    Nelson
    Painted wood with porcelain, 2' x 2'
  • blue stripes
    blue stripes
    painted wood with porcelain and flocking,2' x 2'
  • Golden Rule
    Golden Rule
    Painted wood with porcelain and flocking, 4' x 2'
  • Connect
    Connect
    Painted wood with porcelain, 2' x 3'