Geological Time and Our Solar System (Fourth Day)

Geological Time and Our Solar System (Second Day)

Geological Time and Our Solar System (First Day)

"Geological Time & The Solar System" First Day

Another painting about astronomy. This one’s an intimate landscape that puts Earth and the heavens on a human scale. It’s based on an imaginary teaching aid, a class room chart depicting the vastness of space and geological time that includes various types of weather conditions, rock formations, fossil specimens as well the planets and a few constellations. In an attempt to explain too much in too little space, this chart becomes overcrowded and ramshackle like a disposophobic’s closet. I’m sure it will take more than seven days to finish.

Turmeric Gurl

Turmeric Gurl, 2008-2011

I found this work on paper while  fishing through a bunch of old unfinished pieces in a long lost box. Instead of re-painting it or turning it into a calloge, I decided it was finished. I can’t remember why I ever thought it should be buried along with all the others, but it relates very much to what I’m working on now. I feel like it revealed itself to me at the time when I could clearly see it.

I do recall being very frustrated by not being able to resolve the image, finally resorting to sanding it. The resulting highlights in the hair and on the chest in particular give just the right amount of  chiaroscuro.

Reversible Riders

Red & Green Riders

watercolor and graphite on paper

48″ x 32″

2011

Elephant painting, first day

This is my latest painting after one day.

In the past year I have started several paintings with images of  elephants,  so far every one has ended up completely obliterated  beneath layers of paint.  I can’t figure out what to begin with to finish with an elephant.

 

Untitled (Elephant)

Acrylic on canvas

50′ x 50″

2011

Witness

This Sagittarius shoots a camera rather than arrows.

This piece happened very quickly,  a fast sketch on a wood panel, painted along with several other horse and riders.

This one kept drawing me back for second and third looks. The horse has a great buoyancy and sense of motion; originally the rider was saluting but I changed his hand and added a glitter camera flash.

Sagittarius is on a restless quest, an inward search to find meaning in his life.

Witness (Sagittarius)

Acrylic, glitter on panel

24″ x 30″

2011

Ch’il-song, Seven Star Screen

This watercolor and collage is based on a Korean screen used by the shamans of Seoul City on behalf of the last king of Korea Sunjong (1874-1926).  It represents Ursa Major and was used in the kut ceremony to exorcize evil spirits.

This has been a very slowly evolving piece, it has been in the studio since September and I finally finished it this week.

Seven Star Screen

24″ x 76″

watercolor, gold leaf and collage on paper

2011

Collage Screen

Horses, Girls, Elephants, and  Ghosts

Studio Wall (w/links)

In no particular order,  a 3,000 year old prosthetic mummy toe, Gwen John drawing, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Snapshot of Tara, Mathew Brady Richmond Arsenal Ruins, Dahlonega Georgia gold mining operation, Victor Moscoso “Cosmic Comics”, Ray Johnson collages, John Soane House, Egon Schiele, Victor Hugo, Sam Reveles, Garry Nichols, Gustave Moreau, Lucian Freud, & Eros