Notions of place and landscape have governed my work for the past decade. This was heightened seven years ago, when I found myself in the middle of the desert as a fellow at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program in Southeastern New Mexico, an intentional displacement, if you will. The surroundings outside my studio comprised desert scrub, alfalfa farms, and a constantly shifting desert floor beneath my feet. But the most important impact on my work came from the electrical plants and propane tanks strewn around the emptied landscape. As I confronted and examined my extreme sense of dislocation in this alien landscape, I clung to these man-made structures in my paintings; they became, in a sense, a place to ‘hang onto’. The completed series, Around, represented a 360 degree view of the horizon as seen from my studio, complete with broken down farm equipment, crop sprayers, gates, fences, and telephone wires.
Around #4
2011
oil on canvas
40 x 50"
Around #4 DETAIL
2011
oil on canvas
40 x 50"
Around #3
2011
oil on canvas
40 x 50"
Around #3 DETAIL
2011
oil on canvas
40 x 50"
Around #3 DETAIL
2011
oil on canvas
40 x 50"
Around #5 Small
2011
oil on canvas
19 x 39"
Around #5 Small DETAIL
2011
oi on canvas
19 x 39"
Around #6
2011
oil on canvas
40 x 50"
Around (Collage)
2011
mixed media on paper
16 x 20"
Around #1
2011
oil on canvas
24 x 432"
Around #1 PANEL 1
2011
oil on canvas
each panel 24 x 72"
Around #1 PANEL 2
2011
oil on canvas
each panel 24 x 72"
Around #1 PANEL 3
2011
oil on canvas
each panel 24 x 72"
Around #1 PANEL 4
2011
oil on canvas
each panel 24 x 72"
Around #1 PANEL 5
2011
oil on canvas
each panel 24 x 72"
Around #1 PANEL 6
2011
oil on canvas
each panel 24 x 72"
Tumbleweed Storm
2011
pencil and white pencil on toned paper
30 x 126"
Tumbleweed Storm
2011
pencil and white pencil on toned paper
30 x 126"
Tumbleweed Pileup
2011
pencil and paper
22 x 30"
Tumbleweed Pileup
2011
pencil on paper
22 x 30"
Desert Floor
2011
acrylic, casein, PVA, collage on cardboard
82 x 112"
Desert Floor
2011
acrylic, casein, PVA, collage on cardboard
82 x 112"