Portfolio > 2008

Living Fields is a series of black and white drawings/paintings that is intended to raise visual questions differently than when I paint in color. The contrast of black and white seems to simplify the depth but in turn, it complicates it by insisting that the viewer's brain makes sense of the undulating patterns that are difficult to nail down. The grid, which is constructed from reassembled squares, offers no help other than to make reference to vertical and horizontal lines. Those lines attract us as a familiar reference to figure(vertical) and landscape(horizontal). From there you can decide what it is you are seeing.
Hint: Try squinting, or defocusing your eyes for a few seconds while looking at the painting. Then, look at it normally again and I'll bet you'll see things differently.
My paintings in color behave similarly to the black and whites, simply they add yet another dimension and/or an alternate type of depth. Our brains tend to stitch images together in hopes of finding something recognizable; perhaps something comfortable. One of my goals is to induce just the opposite!

Moment II
Charcoal on paper/panel
43" x 57.5"
2008
Moment I
Charcoal on paper/panel
43" x 57.5"
2008
Living Fields VIII
Charcoal on paper/panel
57.5" x 43"
2008
Living Fields VII
Charcoal on paper/panel
43" x 57.5"
2008
Living Fields VI
Charcoal on paper/panel
57.5" x 43"
2008
Living Fields V
Charcoal on paper/panel
43" x 86"
2008
Living Fields IV
Charcoal on paper/panel
43" x 71.75"
2008
Living Fields III
Charcoal on paper/panel
71.75" x 43"
2008
Living Fields II
Charcoal on paper/panel
43" x 57.5"
2008
Living Fields I
Charcoal on paper/panel
43" x 57.5"
2008
Tree of Life
Charcoal on paper/panel
58" x 130"
2008
Geminus 1
Charcoal on paper/panel
60" x 192"
2008
Fragilina
Charcoal on paper/panel
60" x 192"
2008
Flipside
Charcoal/acrylic on panel
44" x 52"
2008
Tripline
Charcoal/acrylic on panel
48" x 61.5"
2008
Plast
Oil on panel
55" x 69"
2008
Seekspeak
Mixed media
96" x 69" nfs
2008
Drawering
Mixed media
47.5" x 88.25"
2008
Trunali
Charcoal/oil on panel
75" x 59"
2008
Slyne
Charcoal/oil on panel
34" x 28"
2008
Dimensional
Mixed media
49.5" x 33"
2008
Pluralis
Oil/pencil on panel
28.5" x 36"
2008
Inactony
Charcoal on paper
93.5" x 43.5"
2008