"Boatyard Blues"
Oil | 10x10 in
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"Lyle"
Oil
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"Japanese Waterfall"
Painting
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"Easy Chair"
Painting
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"Phragmites along the Connecticut River"
Oil | 20x16 in
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"He who shall be unnamed"
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"plastic-abstract"
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"He who shall be unnamed"
Sculpture
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"the-prince-diminutive"
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"Dreamscape: Connecticut River"
Oil | 4x6 in
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"My Dog is Bigger than Your Dog"
Oil | 48x36 in
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"CT River Ice"
Oil | 14x11 in
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"Animal Maze"
Oil | 11x14 in
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"Tom"
Oil | 9.5x7.9 in
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"Hidden Places"
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"eyes-of sandstone"
Painting
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"Plastics Together"
Sculpture
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"where-s-toto"
Painting
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"Earth Egg"
Oil | 30x30 in
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"Baron von Bassett"
Painting | 14x11 in
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"Riddle of the Ice"
Oil
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"Triptych"
Sculpture - Mixed Media | 4x6 in
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"Halfway to Freddie's House"
Painting | 17x21 in
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"plastics-together"
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"the-diver"
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"Baba Detail"
Sculpture
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"baba-s-choice.jpg"
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"Tool, Wood and Crushed Leaves"
Sculpture - Wood | 14x11 in
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"Rara Avis"
Painting | 1.5x2.1 in
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"Duke"
Oil | 4.7x6.3 in
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"Crossing a Red Sea"
Oil | 17x21 in
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"wired-warrior"
Sculpture
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"wired-warrior"
Painting
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"Babas Choice"
Sculpture
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"the-prince-diminutive"
Painting
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"baba-detail.jpg"
Painting
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Biography
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Since childhood I have enjoyed and nurtured the process of free association. I like to imagine the evolution of things like books, no longer wanted, turning to ashes, the workings of weather on inscriptions of gravestones, brown house paint becoming hot fudge sauce atop an ice cream sundae. Very often my paintings are three-dimensional wherein ashes are made from ashes, headstones are made from crumbled rock, and latex fudge sauce stretches down and drips off the bottom of a canvas.
I am a hands-on person and the more directly I can engage with my work, the greater my pleasure. For creating collage, I keep scraps of everything, especially parts of unfinished works and dried acrylic scrapings from my palette. It’s always a challenge to find the right piece of something for the right space in what, as yet, is still nothing. The rest is much like working on a jigsaw puzzle. Holding the visual memory of each specific shape and its surroundings, I know that sooner or later each one will turn up right here, somewhere in my house.
The combining of unrelated three-dimensional objects (an assemblage) is similar to collage. For me it’s child’s play- like nesting boxes or lego sets- finding two or more pieces of anything that physically fit together. I can continue to disguise the separateness of these unrelated objects by limiting my colors; I might use metal pieces that are rusted in one assemblage or paint wooden spools, plastic spoons, metal springs and bottle caps all in the same color for another. Through the natural fit of parts and the uniformity of color the finished piece will fool us by appearing to be a simple, single entity.
My work can be humorous, serious, mischievous, absurd or disturbing. It can be childish or sophisticated, realistic or abstract. Whatever the mood or the style, my hope is that viewers will look once, then once again, wondering, “Good grief... What is this?”
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UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1945
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- Groups: Contemporary American Artists
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Added Dec 6, 2011
Winter Exhibit at Maple & Main, Chester, CT
1 Maple Street
Friday
18
November
2011
Sunday
15
January
2012
Maple and Main Gallery of Fine Art is an artists' cooperative begun in 2010. Thirty-five highly creative individuals present their painting and sculpture in the upper, lower and little galleries. Maple and Main completely changes exhibits every two months. I am a founding member. See their website:
Added Apr 29, 2011
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Since childhood I have enjoyed and nurtured the process of free association. I like to imagine the evolution of things like books, no longer wanted, turning to ashes, the workings of weather on inscriptions of gravestones, brown house paint becoming hot fudge sauce atop an ice cream sundae. Very often my paintings are three-dimensional wherein ashes are made from ashes, headstones are made from crumbled rock, and latex fudge sauce stretches down and drips off the bottom of a canvas.
I am a hands-on person and the more directly I can engage with my work, the greater my pleasure. For creating collage, I keep scraps of everything, especially parts of unfinished works and dried acrylic scrapings from my palette. It’s always a challenge to find the right piece of something for the right space in what, as yet, is still nothing. The rest is much like working on a jigsaw puzzle. Holding the visual memory of each specific shape and its surroundings, I know that sooner or later each one will turn up right here, somewhere in my house.
The combining of unrelated three-dimensional objects (an assemblage) is similar to collage. For me it’s child’s play- like nesting boxes or lego sets- finding two or more pieces of anything that physically fit together. I can continue to disguise the separateness of these unrelated objects by limiting my colors; I might use metal pieces that are rusted in one assemblage or paint wooden spools, plastic spoons, metal springs and bottle caps all in the same color for another. Through the natural fit of parts and the uniformity of color the finished piece will fool us by appearing to be a simple, single entity.
My work can be humorous, serious, mischievous, absurd or disturbing. It can be childish or sophisticated, realistic or abstract. Whatever the mood or the style, my hope is that viewers will look once, then once again, wondering, “Good grief... What is this?”
Reviews and comments
C'est une belle technique avec des cartons recyclés d'emballages intérieurs. La disposition est parfaite. Bravo…
so calm and soft!
This artwork was inspired by the circular bubbles of a transparent bathtub mat. Painting on the inside of these plastic half circles produces a very unusual blending of colors reminiscent of what I envision as the topographies or unknown planets.
The mobius strip is a phenomenon wherein a single continuous path is created from a two-path (top and bottom) circular strip. This strip is made of a wide insulating (weatherizing) strip and wound yarn.
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