In Response
Yachats Banner Auction 2025
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2025 Banner Statement: I started to paint a Stellar Jay. Then, as I stood on the side of Highway 101 with a sign, it became clear that, this year, I was required to paint relevancy. I was also recently introduced to Marwan Makhoul, a Palestinian poet, who wrote: In order to write a poem That isn’t political, I must listen to the birds And in order to hear the birds, The warplanes must be silent. Dissent and resistance come in many forms. The arts are capable of reaching across divides and with their emotive power and are well suited to foster change. Hence, (beneath the warplanes) yet still the Stellar Jay, a symbol of adaptability, survival, hope and fearlessness joined with what my heart and brush must speak. Thanks for looking and considering. |
In Response to Political Attacks on Common Sense Social Policies:
Drawing on wood with graphite and pastel.
Through the Window: Pandemic Explorations in Cold Wax
A show with friend and colleague Leslie Mahon-Russo on the walls of Upper Crust Bakery, Chico, CA, 8/5- 10/29, 2020.
Each piece is 24" wide x 16" tall x 2.5" deep, cold wax and oil paints on particle board and completed with original photographs in a niche. Several are available. Please inquire.
Each piece is 24" wide x 16" tall x 2.5" deep, cold wax and oil paints on particle board and completed with original photographs in a niche. Several are available. Please inquire.
Dad Series: A Fraught Relationship
Three decades of teaching art at the secondary level followed by a return to higher education and completing a Masters in Art Education provides much fodder with which to recollect and regroup a personal valuing of art. These many years of assessing, making, and interpreting the art of others as well as my own have allowed me to wind my course through many styles and approaches. My most recent endeavors address what I believe is a crucially important contemporary approach to art today:
the Postmodern.
The most simple definition of postmodernism as well as the oft sought after explanation of my work is this: Postmodernism is a contemporary approach to thinking about culture which includes a direct address of feminism, the knowledge/power paradigm, individuality, truth, multiculturalism, and the environment. Importantly, it is freely accessible to all, denying the elite often academic position of “only those in the know.”
As such, my recent artwork stands, as you will so to speak, to be defined with no arbitrary advantage, by the viewer, you. Thus, my response to my image collages will simply be left at: Making art and looking at art is a dynamic experience for all!
the Postmodern.
The most simple definition of postmodernism as well as the oft sought after explanation of my work is this: Postmodernism is a contemporary approach to thinking about culture which includes a direct address of feminism, the knowledge/power paradigm, individuality, truth, multiculturalism, and the environment. Importantly, it is freely accessible to all, denying the elite often academic position of “only those in the know.”
As such, my recent artwork stands, as you will so to speak, to be defined with no arbitrary advantage, by the viewer, you. Thus, my response to my image collages will simply be left at: Making art and looking at art is a dynamic experience for all!
