Someday City 2005

At the time Someday City was the largest canvas I began a painting on. Four by three feet. Many of my professors suggested that I go big, think big with broad-brush strokes. The canvas hung on my studio wall for a month, blank, looking back at me waiting. I remember drawing many thumb nails for the large canvas and one day I though I knew what I wanted, and the pallet filled with piles of color. A few weeks in and I hated where I was going. A month in it just wasn’t working for me, frustration built. I was doing the same thing I always did and knew it so, I took the biggest brush I could find and covered the whole cityscape painting with ultramarine blue. I freaked out and began using turp to remove my large brush stokes, and what turned out opened a large door for me. Someday City is about taking chances, risks by stepping into the unknown. It’s a painting about our future and whether our risks and decision making is right or wrong and how you really are never sure until you do it.

Oil on Canvas 48" x 36"
2000.

Neat Street 2005

In college I was broke. Nearly every surface I painted on was found, given, or made myself out of odd items. My studio became overloaded with things I thought I might use one day. Classic hoarding. It was all good stuff and with such a small budget to purchase these item if I ever need them just wasn’t possible. Neat Street is about that, discovering things around you that are free, neat, and eye opening. The canvas, paint, stretcher bars, and gesso to make Neat Street where all given to me, or found in MECA’s free for the taking bin. I loved that bin!

Oil on Canvas 28" x 24"
750. (framed)

Pinball City 2005

Pinball City was also an imagined satellite view where I began to realize that not only did I enjoy that act of painting I also enjoyed building. In this case I was building a functional city (I thought) maybe as a city planner would. Though this piece wasn’t just that, I explored mixing mediums, different brush widths and strokes. Different tools to apply paint witch eventually led me to thinking about a painting that was built like a sculpture. I called it Pinball City only because it looked like a Pinball Game.

Oil on Canvas 20" x 16"
250.

Which Way City 2005

Senior year in the MECA painting department was one of the greatest years in my life. I met and became friends with some incredible artist. It was a constant ball of creative who knows what! It was also a time when we began to understand who we where as artist. Finding that my passion for architecture as well as human population growth I really began looking at cityscape paintings, maps, historical photographs, and sprawl. 2005 was the year of the Cityscape. Which Way City is an imagined satellite view of a city that was I would harness on an old clock, rotating it 360 degrees.


Oil on Canvas 11" x 14"
N.F.S.

Desk Top 2004

I like a lot of things, but Desk Top is one of my favorites. I had taken several Graphic Design courses at MECA and loved them. I love design, right down to whoever designs clever Icons on the computer’s desktop. Returning to my studio I realize I too have a “desktop” and on it I have my “icons”. The things I click on while I’m creating. Cezanne influenced how in still life the parts make up the whole.

Oil on Canvas 24" x 24"
600.

Dreaming of Home 2004

I called this piece, Dreaming of Home. Not long after High School I traveled city to city all over the US. The memories are rich with the amazement of America’s Industrial Revolution and the direction it has taken our society. The metropolises really stuck with me, the skylines, the people, the noise, it all filled my eyes with excitement, but in the back of my mind I was always of dreaming of home.

Oil on Canvas 18" x 36"
350.

Ocher City 2004

Ocher City was the third of a series of quickly imagined cityscapes. I wanted to become more familiar with oil paint and the ability to work with different levels of paint applications. With these paintings I began to look less at subject mater and more of who I may have been at the time as a painter, as well as a creative thinker. Less of a camera and more of a painter, I thought.


Oil on Canvas 20" x 20"
sold