A Video & Slide Show

Here is a short two-and-a-half minute video that I made showcasing a few of 33 paintings that I have currently showing at the Elliott Fouts Gallery (click here for an external link to the video).

If you follow this blog regularly you'll know that this exhibition is something I have been working pretty hard on for the last 6 - 7 months. It really is a great pleasure to see the "June 5" date arrive and having a satisfied feeling with the accomplishment.



Lastly, here is a slide show of all the paintings (click here for an external link to the slide show).

Tricycles

I started painting tricycles nearly a decade ago.

Very early on in my fine arts program there was a project where we had to select an object as an idea and work with it over and over, repeating the image in different styles, mediums and formats. A friend had a fantastic ancient tricycle and it just resonated with me. I painted it in a classic realist manner, but peeled away all the surrounding imagery and focused on the tricycle alone in a straight-forward visual language stuck with me and never left.


Tricycle XIV
36" x 30" — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• SOLD


Two Tricycles
20" x 40" — Oil/Canvas — 2009
• SOLD

Books

What I love about books is their versatility. They offer and endless bounty of compositions for me to work with, and they have themes and symbolism in a wide variety of manners.


These Are Our Friends
12" x 24" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD


Red Book
12" x 24" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD


Stacks of Books & Espresso Cups
12" x 24" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD


Origins & Apple
16" x 16" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD


Vintage Research
20" x 20" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

Chairs

Light Reading
48" x 30" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD


Luggage, Chair & Shirt
28" x 22" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD


Chair & Stacked Antique Books
24" x 18" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• Sold


La Chaise Verte II
24" x 18" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• Sold

Typewriters & Books

Sometimes I sit and contemplate what I should say about my paintings. Sometimes that's not the right approach. It's good to just let the paintings do the talking themselves every now and then.


Remington Typewriter & Antique Books
20" x 36" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD


Books, Paper, Pencil & Typewriter
20" x 36" — Oil/Canvas — 2010
• SOLD

New Paintings - Show Catalog

$10 — 5.5" x 8.5"
• 30 glossy pages with 28 color plates
• contact the Elliott Fouts Gallery for shipping details
• also available on eBay

The gallery produced a really fantastic catalog for my upcoming show. Seeing the paintings printed is a different experience than viewing images on the web. It's more tactile and crisp. The gallery will mail them throughout the United States & Canada. Contact them at efgallery@sbcglobal.net or call 1-916-736-1429 for details.


A random sampling of some of the pages.