These creations are inspired by visits to the museums of natural history in Chicago and Washington. I am drawn to displays of animals playing and fighting, masks and skeletons. I mix them up in my paintings – sometimes adding unrelated abstract imagery – to make new creations.
Big Dig
Archipelago.
Disconnected oddities.
The eyes of Horus.
30 in x 22 in, oil on canvas
Space Age Flavors
It grabs everything
From everywhere. A sticky
Dream of the obscure.
30 in x 22 in, oil on canvas
Strange Fright
Blue greasy shadows.
Exquisite corpse of clenched teeth,
Breather holes, strange meat.
48 in x 36 in, oil on canvas
Booglarized
Alien waves roil
The skies. Beast with the purple
Jaws plucks tiny prey.
30 in x 22 in, oil on canvas
Metamorphoses
Night shadows bring dreams
Of incomplete forms that float.
Hooves, snout, faded eye.
48 in x 36 in, oil on canvas
Menagerie
For this, I must thank
Lewis Carroll, James Ensor.
Masks, cheshire cat grin.
34 in x 50 in, oil on canvas
A Very Dangerous Place
They will jump in it
Even if the air is red
Anonymous freaks.
30 in x 22 in, oil on canvas
This piece has been sold.
Conjurers
Ice blue, cold yellow
Pink, ambiguous innards
Reach, prod, poke and grin
36 in x 48 in, oil on canvas
This painting has been sold.
Night Gathering
Blue waterfall sky.
Coat of ambiguities,
Naked and raw-skinned.
28 in x 60 in, oil on canvas
Night Gathering
They sleep alone, but
at night, gather together
under starless sky.
Oil on canvas, 24 in x 36 in
Rituals
Bright moon and colors
Glitter. Toothy grin, orange
Soft, tentacled toy.
36 in x 48 in
Pleasure Hunters
To dance is to dream
Or so they say, the ones who
Gather in the night
28 in x 62 in, oil on canvas
Sleep (Morning)
Cocooned in pink and
White raindrops. Bathed in the light
Of misty morning.
36 in x 24 in, oil on canvas
Sleep (Afternoon)
Indescribable,
Fading sky. A lazy feel
Skin like red lentils.
36 in x 24 in, oil on canvas
Sleep (Night)
It rests in the night’s
Accumulations, skin like
A melting candle.
36 in x 24 in, oil on canvas
Bone Rocket Tilt
Dirigible of
Misplaced bones and flesh. It floats
Amid dancing blues
40 in x 32 in, oil on canvas