Friday, July 2, 2010

Senior Project: Spring 2010




Thank You, My Fate
Oil on Canvas
7 x 9 feet







Blue
Oil on Canvas
7 x 11.5 feet







Idol
Oil on Canvas
90" x 68"





Long Time
Oil on Canvas
4 x 7 feet



Artist Statement:  Emotion and Sexuality


We are lonely; we are obsessed with love; we are profoundly disappointed, and we still seek hope. These paintings reflect that isolation, detachment, regret, and the desire to transcend disconnection through redemption, intimacy, and wholeness. While non-autobiographical, the passion and affliction in these works are familiar to me, as I expect they are to many people. In terms of the style of the paint handling of the figures, I have been interested in the stark lighting of Caravaggio, the intense emotional confrontation of Jenny Saville, the sexual tension of Eric Fischl, and the mutability of flesh of Lucien Freud, but the crux has been to find the style to carry the weight of the concept. They are portraits of feelings, of the unspoken pains, hopes, and moments of the Everyman of contemporary culture. They echo experiences, feelings, desires, or fears that we recognize from memories and the possibilities of our own lives. They are not an elegy to innocence, but a remembrance of the process of breaking and repairing ourselves.




Sunday, March 7, 2010

Senior Project: Fall 2009

Uriah (1 of 4)
Oil on Canvas
30" x 36"
SOLD






David (2 of 4)
Oil on Canvas
30" x 36"
SOLD






Solomon (3 of 4)
Oil on Canvas
30" x 36"






Bathsheeba (4 of 4)
Oil on Canvas
30" x 36"






Last Goodbye
Oil on Canvas
42" x 50"





Full of Grace
Oil on Canvas
60" x 48"






Relationship
Oil on Canvas
66" x 48"






Female
Mixed Media on Beer Cans on Canvas
60" x 60"






Male
Mixed Media on Beer Cans on Canvas
60" x 60"





Featured Artist at Spring Art Show

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Portraits 2009-2010


Big Sister
Oil on Canvas
40" x 30"






Self Portrait as a Glam Rocker
Oil on Canvas
30" x 30"
SOLD






Asher Lev, William Monks
24" x 40"
Oil on Canvas





Better.
36" x 48"
Oil on Canvas







Miscellaneous 2006-2010



God the Son
Oil on Canvas
15" x 30"
SOLD






Seminary
Oil on Canvas





Andean Summer
Oil on Canvas
SOLD





Beach
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas






That Night
Acrylic on Canvas






All the models are made of glass.
Oil on Canvas




Still Life
Oil on Canvas
SOLD





I Go Back to May 1937
Oil on Canvas
SOLD





Oscar Wilde
Acrylic and Colored Glass on Canvas
SOLD