Geometries, 2018-2023
Splitting 2021 o/c, 30×30”
Bending Black Square 2 2021 oil on canvas 30x30”
Untitled (Four Blocks) 2020 Lascaux gesso, oil and graphite on canvas 30x30x2-1/2”
Untitled (Mirroring) 2023 oil on canvas 30×30”
Plane in Rotation 2022 o/c. 30×30”
Untitled (Center Shift) 2021 o/c 30x30”
Spheric Evolution of a Plane 2022 o/c 30×30”
Shaft of Light 2024 o/c 14x16x2”
Opening Planes 2020 o/c. 30×30”
Opening/Closing (diptych) 2023 o/c, 30×60”
Shifting Planes 2021 o/c. 30×30”
Bronx Red (diptych) 2023 o/c 30x60”
Bronx (diptych) 2023 o/c 30x60”
Turning 2018 acrylic and graphite on canvas 60x60x2”
PAINTINGS : SHAPING SPACE
In this series of paintings, I am working within and against the traditions of geometric abstraction to destabilize the viewers’ sense of space and self.
Images of shapes bending space arise in my meditation practice. The shapes are off-axial and asymmetric challenging the picture plane, the edge, the square. The paintings are architectural addressing the viewer and the room.
These paintings were begun in response to the extremity of our moment. They are painted in oils for oils’ physicality and authority. They are painted in white and black and white and red for these hues’ history, their particular materiality and their power. The colors’ push-pull
reflects the forces in society forever in motion.
I have a 46 year painting practice, one in which scale and space, materiality and illusion have been consistent concerns.