Paintings
These paintings are simultaneously abstract and figurative, often featuring images of motionless movement in which body parts fly away or dissolve. As in jazz, what matters most is what is missing: “The space between the notes.”

flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing
112 x 79.5, oil, oil crayon and graphite on panel
2020
2020

the river is rising
40 x 79, oil and oil crayon on panel
2020
2020

the moose shines bright the stars give a light and you may kiss a porcupine at 10 O’clock at night
39 x 59, oil and oil crayon on panel
2020
2020

take it to the top with puzzles toggling between nothingness and a match thrown across a dark room
39 x 59, oil and oil crayon on panel
2018
2018

landscape with four houses
36 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel
2019
2019

As Evening Touches A Forest Of Redbirds Around Her Song
46 x 120, oil, oil crayon, caramel corn bags, thumb tacks and…

In The Meadow By The Red House The Wolf-Dog Bowed Submissive
39 x 59, oil crayon on panel
2018
2018

Somebody Tell Me What ‘Diddy Wah Diddy’ Means
39 x 59, oil and oil crayon on panel
2019
2019

the cow catcher on the train of commotion
36 x 48, oil crayon on panel
2018
2018

Red House Dark Room Diptych
In the meadow by the red house the wolf-dog bowed submissive…

Landscape With Blue Silence
oil and oil crayon on panel
2017
SOLD
2017
SOLD

Good Night Boogie Woogie
oil and oil crayon on panel
2017
2017

Eulogy For A Pastrami Sandwich
36 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel
SOLD
SOLD

A Hum In The Room
oil and oil crayon on panel
2017
2017

The Will To Swing No. 1
39 x 59, oil and oil crayon on panel
2016
SOLD
2016
SOLD

Ribbons And Garlands
39 x 59, oil and oil crayon on panel
2016
2016

The Hum In The Room
36 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel

A Grammar Of Unfamiliar Meaning
48 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel
2016
2016

Jack’s In The Cellar With Horns And Poems
48 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel
2015
2015

The Whole Class Went By Bus
48 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel

Six Opus Numbers
48 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel
2015
SOLD
2015
SOLD

Grand Unification Theory
48 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel

The Blackbird Says To His Brother
36 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel
2013
SOLD
2013
SOLD

Plane Of Original Conception
36 x 48, oil crayon on panel
2013
SOLD
2013
SOLD

Lines By Long Pauses
48 x 48, oil crayon on panel
2013
2013
art letter | no. 1. 2021 | january
Flow and Beat, Advance and Retreat, Rise and Take a Bow in Disappearing.
That is how Langston Hughes described the pulsating rhythm of James Baldwin’s prose, and it became the goal for my most recent painting. . .