DANGEROUS MEDIA


		PAINTINGS These paintings were among many images that I produced and exhibited in the 80's and 90's in various galleries in the East Village and SoHo in New York City. Many of these paintings are highly detailed and represent the stylistic shifts in my work over a ten year period. However, they all hold within the few topics that have interested me over this period: The concept of self in an age of spiritual confusion, and the role of television (technology) in the evolution of community, religion, and identity.

The Storm

This painting was executed in Acrylic and measures 36" x 40". It is in a private collection in Atlanta, GA.

This image haunted me during the mid-eighties, when I lived in NYC. The social climate at that time was very tense, as the fear of AIDS swept through New York City. Many people I knew had become deeply afraid of physical contact in the most banal of settings. And this plague-like fear had a chilling effect on the way people related to one another that you could actually witness.

This acrylic painting took about 1.5 years to paint, and features a woman whom I was very close to at the time. The technique used on the figures is VERY detailed, and the paint on the waves is handled in strong, impasto strokes that stand up off the surface of the painting.

The Flower of Judea

This painting was executed in Acrylic on a 30" x 40" paper board. It is in a private collection in Tel Aviv, Israel.

This image is a love poem to the Land of Israel: the tiniest little "desert flower" that holds itself firmly in place with it's deep, historic roots in an ancient land. The painting is very tight and controlled, but vasilates technically between very controlled brushwork in the center - with it's loving attention to the well-tended garden - to impasto-like dabs of sand colored paint in the foreground, which cast actual shadows on the image when there is overhead lighting. I used this technique often to amplify the sense of depth and perspective when viewing these kinds of images up close.

5 Gods Wrestle with Existence

This painting measures 36" x 48" and was executed in Acrylic. It is in a private collection in Atlanta, GA..

I think one of my boldest and most honest pictures: An attempt to capture my philosophy on the existential value of religion in a civilization in the midst of self-discovery. All of my own personal questions and tormented notions about religion, sex, and self-identity are woven into this scene of choas, danger, and abandon.

There are several visual references to some of art history's most existential imagery.

The Couple on the Side of the Road

This painting measures 24" x 36" and was executed in Acrylic.

The image sprung from a true story, a road trip as it were, and it's a mental "snap shot" of the 2 subjects - a down-and-out-couple - who had the luck to be caught in my headlights just before the sun went down on a very lonely stretch of Florida Panhandle highway.

The painting was started in 1983, but reworked extensively in 1987. After a number of showings in Florida galleries, it was subsequently published as a "Story-Starter" for three fiction writers to work from in a special literary feature of The Miami Herald's Tropic Magazine in 1987.

More to Come #3

This painting was executed in Acrylic, on 24' x 36" paper board.

This painting was a stylistic diversion of a previous painting I did on television/human relationships. I had begun the processs of loosening up my technique and color range.

The Sacrifice

This image was painted in Acrylic on 36" x 48" paper board in 1992.

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