Monthly Archives: February 2011

New Work

Been working on a new series of paintings this year – figurative abstraction based on digital imaging. The paintings start with photos that I’ve manipulated with image processing software. Characteristics that are normally seen as negative aspects of digital technology (such as color shift, banding, compression artifacts, and pixelization) are enhanced to explore the unique visual language of digital imaging. Working from printouts, these images then become the subject of the paintings. Using palette knives that mimic the square shapes of pixels, I freely interpret the digital images in paint.

For images of my latest series please click here.

MOMA On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century

Just saw the drawing exhibit at MOMA, On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. It’s a survey of mostly abstract drawing – even the representational work is by artists such as Klee and Picasso, realism doesn’t figure in this show. The focus is on work that somehow expands or redefines the traditional boundaries of drawing. There’s plenty to like in this show including a drawing on canvas by Mondrian which is an unfinished painting. Actually it’s an unstarted painting. Interesting to see that he actually worked out his compositions in pencil directly on canvas.  There was a reconstruction of El Lissitzky’s Proun Room and Calder’s wire sculptures which are always a joy. The greatest revelation was work by the Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) who also worked with wire to form two dimensional grids that playfully warped geometry and included found materials such as sprockets and electronic components.

Show closes on Feb 7th.

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/online/