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.”
birds count time to the rhythm of hours dancing
oil
2026
2026
where the wind outflies the falcon shadows of red softly tease the canyon’s tilting stripes of ancient memory
52 x 76.5, oil, oil bar, flash, acrylic, rope, wood, misc detritus…
time noise color
75.5 x 56, oil, oil bar, and detritus
2023
2023
an aroma of memory
62 x 71, oil, oil bar, and detritus
2023
2023
go in where they exit
46 x 72, oil, oil bar, and detritus
2023
2023
the shape of their voices
5’6 x 4’5, oil, oil crayon, Sharpie pens, smashed seltzer…
a little farther yet
72 x 82, oil, oil crayon, and all sorts of other stuff on pa…
blowing in from chicago
48 x 48, oil and oil crayon on panel
2021
2021
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
SOL…
2020
SOL…
the river is rising
40 x 79, oil and oil crayon on panel
2020
SOLD
2020
SOLD
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
SOLD
2019
SOLD
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
SOLD
2019
SOLD
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
SOLD
2017
SOLD
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
art letter | no. 1. 2026 | apr
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