NEW WORK FOR MY MFA THESIS

    Private country clubs make interesting painting subjects. They are living and breathing ecosystems composed of flora and fauna, yet they must be tended carefully by people or they will revert to true wilderness. Most golf courses are designed to look like 18th and 19th century idealized, Arcadian or sublime landscape paintings. They are usually quite beautiful, especially when it is early morning or late day when the quietude of a solitary walk in this constructed- natural setting is possible .
   Today's golf is played on courses designed with a bit of the sublime. The look of adventure and danger, characterized by wide rugged vistas, the pounding surf of ocean front courses, water , dunes, marsh land , varied elevations and grand mountainous settings evoke the sublime American landscapes of Hudson River School Painters Frederick Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt, as well as German 18th century landscape painter Casper David Friedrich . We may not be hunter gatherers or adventurous explorers of uncharted lands anymore, but we can still track the little white ball through these majestic  landscapes.

PREDATOR, 18" X 38" , OIL AND WAX ON CANVAS

 

LITTLE RED DRONE

OIL AND WAX PAINTINGS ON CANVAS FROM SPRING 2013 MFA SEMESTER

These are two new paintings, very similar, as they are two versions of the same scene. The scene is from a photo that my professor's brother had taken. It is a photo taken of the first flight taking off from a New York airport after 9-11-2001. As we all remember , air traffic was stopped for a few days after that tragedy. This is the first flight outbound as air travel resumed. The flight was at sunrise.

Under The Big Wave

UNDER THE BIG WAVE IS ONE OF MY MOST AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MIXED MEDIA COMPOSITIONS. WORKING WITH TORN PAPER, GESSO, ACRYLIC PAINT, OIL PASTEL,RICE PAPER AND FOUND IMAGES , THE COMPOSITION TOOK 4 MONTHS TO COMPLETE. IN A WATERY PALETTE OF BLUES AND GREENS, THERE ARE A VARIETY OF IMAGES AND OBJECTS BEING TOSSED ABOUT INSIDE THE WAVE. IT IS NOT LITERALLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, BUT HAS EMBEDDED SYMBOLS AND SHAPES THAT ARE SIGNIFICANT TO MY STORY. THE RANDOM SHAPES AND FOUND IMAGES COULD ALSO EVOKE MEMORIES OF OTHER VIEWERS LIVES. THEY ARE NOT SPECIFIC, SO CAN BE INTERPRETED MANY WAYS BY MANY VIEWERS. THERE ARE LOTS OF LAYERS. LITERALLY - THE MORE YOU LOOK THE MORE YOU SEE.