Heavy Vehicles

Corot painted women in landscape as a metaphor: woman is landscape. Our epoch calls for a renewed metaphor, vehicle is landscape. Heavy vehicles shape, move, and shift the landscape and contribute to the dilemma of co-existing with earth. I paint the forms and rhythms of metal, tires, and glass, structured by light, caked in dirt, and folded into landscape.

The Deep

This my first attempt to create an immersive painting installation. The concept at the time to create this installation was the idea of how to transport the viewer to a desolate place far into the future, in order to talk about the Anthropocene era, our mortality, and future ecologies of our planet.  I looked into theater staging and to the format of XD and IMAX movie theaters as a model. The title and installation was named and influenced by the short story "The Deep" by the science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

Earth

My foray into large scale landscape painting begins with construction imagery. Construction is a form of earth art that, coupled with engineering becomes much more than blight. On site the pungent smell of soil and organic matter ripped open and oxygenated is overwhelming.

Dirt - so many hues and tones of brown, so many layers into the crust. It impels the painter to develop layers, thin on thick and thick over thin - no rules, just dirt.

Highways

The highway is etched into the collective conscious of the American culture. We love our cars and the road is, alternately, the venue for journey and the drudgery attached to routine commuting. Time spent on the road can be a distraction, a nuisance, or a window onto our sense of place in the landscape.
 
Even when most banal, the rhythm of movement through time and space creates drama. The highway provides an opportunity to paint the unseen, the unnoticed vista marred by the detritus of concrete and asphalt that attends to the world we see every day and rarely look at.

Italy

I have had the opportunity to visit Italy several times. As a painter I am drawn to its diverse landscapes, including its rugged mountains, its marvelous coastlines, and its abundance of ruins.

Baltimore

As a resident of Baltimore, it is inevitable that many of my landscape paintings will be of this place. I am fortunate that this area offers such a diverse set of subjects, from the rugged industrial zones, to the waterfront, to the pastoral hinterland.
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