Abstract Works
Sometimes I just want to explore color and composition or do something a bit abstract.
I have noted the paintings I have available.
Sq. Color Composition #1, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking out over Monterey Bay towards Santa Cruz. These color composition paintings are the outcome of reflecting on my Fire Hydrant paintings and how I enjoyed abstracting the landscape behind them. I decided to do a series of abstracted landscapes of the area I grew up (Monterey/Salinas Valley). I call these my Color Field series. I really had fun with these - playing with the color and the visual vibration created between the colors I selected. These paintings were a joy to create.
Sq. Color Composition #2, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: California hills in summer with sky
Sq. Color Composition #3, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: California lettuce field looking towards the ocean.
Sq. Color Composition #4, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking out over Monterey Bay towards Santa Cruz (Showing more sky then Color Composition #1.)
Sq. Color Composition #5, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Orange on Orange, for George and his past love of this color.
Sq. Color Composition #6, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking out over Monterey Bay towards Santa Cruz, with bright blue sky. (Available)
Sq. Color Composition #7, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Sunset looking over a chili pepper field towards the ocean. (Available)
Sq. Color Composition #9, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Midday sun on a chili pepper field. (Available)
Sq. Color Composition #10, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Afternoon sun on a field of wild mustard. (Available)
Sq. Color Composition #11, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Chili pepper field and brown hills. (Available)
Sq. Color Composition #12, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Lettuce field and green hills
Sq. Color Composition #13, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Artichoke field against green hillside. (Available)
Sq. Color Composition #14, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Freshly tilled field at dusk. (Available)
Sq. Color Composition #15, 22.5x22.5 2002. Oil on Paper. This composition: Fog on Monterey Bay looking towards Seaside. (Available)
Faultline - Color Field Painting, 22.5x22.5 2009. Oil on Paper. For Jim.
Color Composition #1, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Thoughts of a chili pepper field in summer. (Available)
Color Composition #2, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Thoughts of a central valley field freshly tilled in the summer. (Available)
Color Composition #3, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking over the California hills in summer, out towards the Pacific Ocean.
Color Composition #4, 36x24 2001. Oil on Paper. This composition: Looking over the California hills in spring, out towards the Pacific Ocean.
Don't Tell Me How to Paint, 8x8 2021. Oil on Board. I have been playing around with my painting style and I was starting to hear various comments about that. So I decided to have a little fun. The painting is basically an abstracted representation of me walking away from the, umm, commentaries (purple head) coming my way. (Available)
This is America, 20x20 2022. Oil on Canvas. I felt compelled to do a painting to reflect the polarization, racial tension, and violence I was and am seeing and hearing about in America. I ruminated for a while on how to represent what I felt and started a new piece of work, but adjusted where I was going with it over time. This painting evolved into what it is now. There is a lot of symbolism in this painting; the background is various skin tones, the circle is an open wound, the U.S is a piece of meat with embers and a peace sign overlaying it all. The dramatic black is obviously a target with words pulled in. To determine the words to include, I asked several friends for the first 3 words that come to mind when they think of America, and from those I selected a subset. (Available)