Artist Statement
During my almost thirty years as an artist, the issues that motivate me have been consistent: beauty, mystery, color, form, space, and time. I describe the painting series I am currently creating as “painting combines”, intended to create a profound sense of mystery within an articulate vision, utilizing materials that reflect light, space, and the viewers themselves.
To elaborate, since color is a reflection of light that is then perceived and formulated by the viewer, each color, or combination of colors, elicits a response in the observer’s brain. The response can be psychological, emotional, and filled with subliminal meaning.
Artists seek such responses from their audience; it is what drives our work. In the mixed-media series, I am using Plexiglas materials, such as clear rods, to bend, abstract, and alter the observer’s perceptions. Each time someone sees my paintings from a different angle, however slight the alteration, the image and colors will change. This is due to the refraction of reflected light and is called the parallax effect: the apparent displacement of an object when seen from different points not on a straight line with the object.
A related avenue of exploration involves painting upon clear Plexiglas sheets and placing them within clear Plexiglas cubes. Sometimes I bend the sheets, juxtaposing them with sculptural objects within stacked, skewed cubes. This provides multiple viewing dimensions for the observer: first, a three-dimensional view of the painting combine; second, the experience of seeing themselves and their surroundings reflected within the art; third, the ability to actually see the physical reality of the space and quantum applications involved.
Thus, my painting canvasses are sculptural, experimental and innovative. The resulting work speaks both to quantum theory and the essence of spirituality. The work speaks to the now.
Price List
Quantum Angel
SOLD
Propeller
$450
Green Buddha
$450
For Leon
SOLD
Lovers
$3,200
Song
$750
Heaven & Earth
$450
Bird
$750
Transmigration
$3,200
Turtle
$450
Shelved Forms
$24,000
Cage
$5,500
Cradle
SOLD
Triangular Movement
SOLD
Angel
SOLD
Traveling Twosome
SOLD
Installation
SOLD
Blue Structure
SOLD
Pequod
$1,250
Shell on Wheels
$1,800
Cubicle
$18,000
Felix
$12,500
Parallax
SOLD
Eyes
$7,200
Original Face
$1,200
Joachim’s Dream
$1,250
Inverted
$1,800
Red House
$1,250
Blue House
$1,250
Muertos
$1,250
David’s Angel
$1,250
Buddha #2
$750
Blue
$1,250
Bliss
$1,250
Buddha’s Tree
$450
Buddha’s House
$1,250
Dancing Buddha
$900