As a designer, I work for clients to produce one-of-a kind solutions to site-specific assignments, working comfortably with committees, a budget, and practical limitations. This includes commercial assignments, public art commissions, and computer-generated digital prints.
For public art commissions today, I prefer to work on large-scale digital prints, and combine experience and concepts as a designer to produce results of a fine artist.
As an artist, I paint with acrylics, and use the computer to compose images and produce digital prints. After sixty-plus years, my painting continues to be a search for discovery, a personal process to find meaning. On my own terms.
I am exploring geometry as a symbol of the mind in the world. I am particularly interested in color and figure/ground relationships, and use 2-D shapes to maintain a level of abstraction that offers an alternative reality. Ordinarily, geometry applied in the visual arts is austere, measured, without emotion. In contrast, I want a dynamic geometry that resonates emotionally, is open to interpretation, and points beyond itself.
Building with my personal inventory of symbols, I juxtapose geometric and biomorphic shapes, combine various techniques, mix media, assemble multiple canvases, and recycle old canvases to model a balance between contrasting elements, to feature differences which coexist to advantage.
The result is an ambiguous abstraction that feels right and raises questions.
See “About the Series.”
Communicate with me through “Contact.”