The following 8 works were begun out of doors in St. John, Virgin Islands. I’ve been home in New York State for the month of March, working in the studio to complete these Caribbean paintings. The title of each work includes the date that the work was begun, the temperature of the moment, the latitude [...]
Along A Long Line
Painting the landscape from the Arctic to the equator
Haulover Bay
Failure
Once I made a drawing using the phrase, “Total and complete fucking failure”, which was repeated in neat lines, over and over, until the page was completely filled. Oddly, the drawing was a minor success since the combination of the self-negating phrase with the grim determination to fill the page was comic. But sometimes projects [...]
9 Paintings in Progress
The following 9 works were created out of doors in St. John, Virgin Islands. The title of each painting includes the date that the work was begun, the temperature of the moment, the latitude and longitude of the place, and a verbal description of the subject that motivated the painting.
“January 8, 2008. 75° F, N [...]
Haulover Bay
About 25 years ago I visited with Leon Golub in his studio, when he was painting his great “Mercenary” series. Standing in front of gigantic men of war, we fell into a conversation about the unusual painting process he had developed. After drawing the rapacious figures and giving them heft with broadly defined areas [...]
