Saugatuck in the Summer

Saugatuck in the Summer, 2009 oil on canvas Diptych 48x72

Found more shots...I always like a shot of the used materials, dirty crushed tubes and a palette full of paint!

You can just smell the oil...
I just found this photo. This painting sold quickly and I forgot I had an image of it.
Golden Sunday-oil on canvas-sold

A grouping of 06,07, and 08 Intimated Landscapes---NEW 2009 PAINTINGS BELOW THIS ENTRY

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Saugatuck Summer-oil on linen 8x10-sold

Gardens in Nice, South of France, oil on canvas 12x12-sold

Maui Pinapple Plantation-oil on canvas 20x20-sold

Detail of Maui Cliffs, oil on linen 36x36

Maui Cliffs-oil on linen 36x36

Maui Pinapple Plantation Detail...

Iris and Rhodes-oil on linen, 36x36-sold

Detail of Cottage in the Woods-oil on linen 36x36

Cottage in the Woods-oil on linen, 36x36---IN PROGRESS STILL

LOOKING AT LANDSCAPE...2009 PAINTINGS

I WANTED TO LET GO OF THE FIGURE FOR A WHILE AND EXPLORE ELEMENTS OF ABSTRACTION IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING... CALLED INTIMATED LANDSCAPES...click on an image for an detailed enlargement-contact me via email for inquires

Michigan Summer--In Progress, Oil on linen

Lost Fields of Flowers-In Progress, Oil on Canvas

Maui Field Near Piea-oil on canvas

7am in Maui-oil on canvas, 6x6in

Upstate New York-In Progress
Oil on canvas

3 Paintings now living at the Henry Ford in West Bloomfield...

In the Gardens of Old Myth

In the Gardens of Old Myth, 2009 watercolor on paper triptych 29x41, 29x41, 29x41

Just completed this commission...

Well...it took a long, long time to find my way with this painting...The New Religion, 2009 oil on canvas 6x8ft

Duplicity as a quality for an imaginary friend?

I have been working on the usual problem these days...keep the figure or leave it...The figure in painting is like my crack...the abstraction always leads me to it...and I fall for it every time...then the abstraction attempts to lead me away from it, and I battle with the imagery to keep it. Painting, for me, is a duplicitous little imaginary friend who gets excited by seeing me sweat out the canvas for a while (is that a good friend or bad?)!

This is a detail from a larger painting that I am working on...

Untitled...In Progress

Who knows whats going to happen here..this is an image that has been stuck in my head for years. It was during a cold, cold winter in the early 90s where a lot of homless were freezing to death. I have wanted to paint since then...so we will see where this goes.

Another OLD one...The Hate Picnic...Free Hot Dogs circa 1997

This one is on the west coast somewhere...

Wow old one I found...

This was the image used by C-Pop for their last show in Royal Oak (Ism Schism) featuring Bill Brovold and myself. It was a show celebrating C-pop at the top of their game in R.O.
...drawing-charcoal on paper with turp wash about 41"x41" in 4 pcs.

The New Religion...commission in progress...oil on canvas 6x8ft

THIS IS A STORY YET TO BE TOLD...

Studio

A couple in progress...

London Flower Vendor 2008 5x6ft

London Flower Stand- oil on canvas 5x6ft April 2008...I needed to make the break from figurative work to re-explore the purity and complexity of paint itself and its power to create vision. Originally I began this thought process in 1995, but did not realize or act upon it until my last painting when I suddenly lost my 21 year link to figurative work.

We will see where this goes, and one thing is for sure...I will not return to the figure as I had before...This image is based upon my visit to London a couple of years ago. The fresh flower stands were powerful imagery.

This is a chair prototype I did in 2007

Chair prototype from 2007, aluminum and clay---I will make it someday!

Finally completed after 2 years...

The Judgement-2006-2008 O.K. I FINALLY COMPLETED THIS PAINTING AFTER 2 YEARS! What can I say....it was a battle of patience and will to make this painting work the way it needed to! OIL ON LINEN 52"X62" (approx)

Questioning Directions

Dogma-Oil on Acrylic reverse painting 2007 36x48

Questioning Directions

The Communication Age-Acrylic Reverse Painting with ink 2007 24x36

Questioning Directions

The Lama-Acrylic reverse painting with ink, 2007 24x36in

A New Direction/Diversion-Landscape

Landscape- Oil on acrylic reverse painting 2007 16x20

The Fawn

This is an exciting work for me because of it's organic life span. This is a chalk pastel wash on primed canvas. There is no real bond between the chalk and gesso'd ground, so once the wash hits then surface all hell will break loose...After I applied a wash to the pastel the image exploded into a grand format of line, movement, color and complexities of drama. While it was still wet I photographed the image. Two days later most of the pastel had fallen off and it was as dry and grey as a 2000 year old mummy. The work is meant to exist only on camera and is only represented in public in the form of embellished one-of-a-kind prints (The original drawing was 6x6ft).

Some history here...1990 oil on canvas

jacks bar

oil on canvas

66 x 66in

NFS

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untitled...(at least there is still wine)

oil on canvas

84 x 84in

price available upon request

A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT ME

Self after (lots of) Wine, 2007 oil on canvas 48x48

I am not sure if the average viewer, art enthusiast or even a great number of artists know the passion, the pleasure and pain it takes to truly be a painter. I am not saying that other artists don't possess the imagination, dedication or skill to create beautiful things, but there are few of us who truly live to experience the paint. Not all feel the pleasure of a brush gliding across the canvas and the excitement as that brush's mark on the canvas begins to end. A story was just told with that stroke, and thousands more are ready to be told at that very moment. Have they all experienced the beautiful accidents we call home on a long winter night spent freezing in the studio? Do they appreciate the beauty of that moment forgetting all other troubles? What about the smell of oil it as it permeates the air, or drips in gobs on your clothing and shoes in the heat of the moment? It is intoxicating. I live for the visual exchange of color and light and movement; for the explosion of passion that confounds reason for the sake of composition or message; for the blind fury of mark making on big canvases; to scream messages through imagery. It is beautiful. The end results are images fantastically broken and torn yet satisfied in their hyper-collaged existence by process and passion. Because of all this the process is more important to me than the end result… because the act of creation often trumps the imprint. That is where the value is found in my art.

Our process of memory dictates an infinite number of images compressed into seconds of internal vision, interpretive through emotion and complicated in reason, or relative madness, to our mind. Within each and every one of these synapse moments there exists an exquisite mixture of humor, sadness, excitement and exhaustion. An infinite surplus of these little noticed narratives awaits our recounting and people struggle with these recordings seeking to persevere and pleasure ourselves with such happenings in ways that I feel quantifies us as both mammal and human. I observe, interpret and discuss these possibilities through baser imagery, color, line, movement and composition. The imagery moves, strengthens and dissects as it is encompassed by the compound realities in each painting...in the end relying on strength of composition to petition for its distinct visual voice. These are images fantastically broken and torn yet satisfied in their hyper-collaged existence by languages of memory compromised by time.

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"on the yellow brick road"

oil on canvas

5x7ft

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3 days from america

oil on linen and canvas

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music man

oil on canvas

3.5x4.5ft

I needed to do some portraiture for a while to clear my head. This one was for Paul Weiss.

price available upon request

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centaur in progress

moody...sad about the torture bill...

4 x 5 ft

oil on canvas

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"ssssssecrets"

oil on canvas

4ft x 8ft

price available upon request

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"beliefs"

oil on canvas

3ft x 4ft

price available upon request

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"ordinary furniture in an extraordinary world"

oil on canvas

4ft x 10ft

price available upon request

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"cigarettes in hell"

oil on canvas

6ft x 6ft

price available upon request

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'the blue master"

watercolor on paper (550lb arches rough)

29in x 41in

Price available upon request

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"toms lawyer painting"

oil on canvas

3ft x 5ft

commissioned by tom the lawyer

Sold

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"war with peace"

oil on canvas

3 1/2ft x 5ft

price available upon reuqest

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"the last volley"

oil on canvas

5ft x 7ft

price available upon request

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"frittata II"

oil on canvas

3ft x 5ft

Sold

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"the adoration"

oil on canvas

4ft x 6ft

commissionsed by the cueny family

Sold

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"frittata"

oil on canvas

3ft x 5ft

Sold

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"Knockout"

oil on canvas

4ft x 4ft

price available upon request

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"revolution"

guache on paper

3ft x 5ft

price available upon request

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"pan in the garden"

oil on canvas

31/2ft x 6ft

Sold

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"the glory"

oil on canvas

6ft x 9ft

price available upon request

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"new york 20/20"

oil on canvas

4ft x 6ft

NFS

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"black magic"

oil on canvas

5ft x 7ft

NFS

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"pieta"

oil on canvas

4ft x 6ft

Sold

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"still life with clock parts"

oil on canvas

4ft x 6ft

NFS

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"lovers at a garden party"

oil on canvas

41/2ft x 41/2ft

Sold

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"one step forward two steps back"

oil on canvas

4ft x 6ft

Sold

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"city scene"

oil on canvas

5ft x 7ft

Sold

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"anywhere kinetics"

oil on canvas

2ft x 3ft

Sold

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"untitled"

mixed media on canvas

41/2ft x 41/2ft

NFS