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madonnas
2017
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new rayogramms
2009 – 2011
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Suprematist Nudes
2001 – 2005
The Suprematist Nudes body of work is a tribute to the Suprematist artists of the early 20th century. Not content to accept the status quo the Suprematists pushed the concept of what art could be in the fine arts, architecture, clothing, furniture, typography, book and ceramic design, and poetry.
These works are nudes montaged with images of Russian Suprematist paintings from 1912 to 1923. The Suprematists wanted to divorce their art from the physical world and explore relationships of a higher, “Supreme” reality. I thought it interesting to combine works from opposite polarities; physical nudes with these hard-edged geometric explorations to see what relationships would result. The “tattooing” of the Suprematist works on some of the Nudes makes them more graphic, no longer simply physical entities. In other images the Nude softens the hard-edged Suprematists compositions making them more physical and worldly. Through exploring these dualities I hope to share a heightened sense of the “beingness” underlying both.
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gettysburg
2000 –2001
The Gettysburg series, images of the battle site with included excerpts of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, is a homage to the men and ideals that they fought and died for. I wanted to contribute my voice in support of Lincoln's resolution that "these dead shall not have died in vain." Unfortunately the "unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" of all people regardless of race, creed or sex is still today not universal, even in our advanced society. These images represent my desire to contribute to the dialogue on human rights and to commemorate those who made the supreme sacrifice for those unalienable rights.
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Victory Series
1993 – 2005
The Victory and Suprematist Nude works are a tribute to the Suprematist artists of the early 20th century who were not content to accept the status quo and pushed the concept of what art could be in the fine arts, architecture, clothing, furniture, typography, book and ceramic design, and poetry.
The Victory Series combine words (and Dadaist like sounds) from the libretto of the 1912 Suprematist play Victory Over the Sun and with Suprematist geometric elements to create new works in tribute to the explorations of the pioneers of this period. Suprematism was important because it challenged us to consider new philosophies regarding the nature of our relationship to the world.
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walden pond
1989 –1990
The large landscape images of Walden Pond could be viewed as landscape or abstraction simultaneously and were intended as metaphors, through the addition of wooden planks, lead sheet and burnt books, for the environment and our mishandling of it.
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Photograms
1982 – 1984
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montage series
1982 –1984
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early works
1979
All my artistic explorations have revolved around two primary concerns: exploring different ways of manifesting imagery through the use of mixed materials, and more importantly, to reach out and try to touch that common spark of life, humanity and energy that permeates all things in our world.
My early landscape works and later Window Shadows series focused on documenting abstractions in nature, finding the uncommon in the common. My various Wall Series explored city walls and the graffiti, geometry, order and disorder inherent in their surfaces. Again, finding new worlds in the commonplace. The neon was emblematic of the unconquerable human spirit.
