My recent works follow two main paths, observational paintings and paintings that are the result of an internal investigation. The paintings were painted in two places, my studio in Baltimore County Maryland and in Chianti Italy, over the last few years. These two paths developed in the aftermath of the pandemic and along my continuing journey as a parent.

Offering (2021)

These paintings are inspired by the unknown and the unknowable.
Themes  include nature as a guide and source of personal healing. Some of my paintings take
inspiration from both rituals and votives as manifestations of desire and prayer.

The Forest Edge (2020)

The forest edge is a margin between two worlds. It is a transition zone between light and shade, the highly cultivated and the wild. It can serve as an entrance, but can also be dense and hard to penetrate.

 

Kindling/Tinder (2019)

Referencing the nickname for a darkroom technique for significantly manipulating the brightness of parts of a photographic print, The Hand of God investigates the most omnipresent element used in the production of photographic work – light.

 

American consumer culture is bountiful, plentiful, bright, and colorful. But it is a bounty with a dark side of profits made at all costs, choice overload and over-consumption which has led to massive health challenges in the society. This American Bounty is a Pandora’s box that has spread its tentacles through society and beyond, a global behemoth that threatens humanity.