When I visited my friend, Elaine, after her return from Buenos Aires, I didn’t expect to see the art she was bringing back, pieces of mine included, on the walls already. Red Aquatic had been placed down a long hallway. I’d never seen a piece of mine so far away from me, like in a […]
Category Archives: Glass
Here is she is. She Lady. Strength of being, primitive and regal, precious and raw. Earthbound. Female. A testament to life now and forward, She Lady bedazzles with luscious freshness. She is here, dimensional in her surface. Light knows she’s there. She is it’s reflection. She Lady is eternal. SHE LADY 10.5″ x 13″, […]
THE HUG embraces connection. Life celebrating luck. It’s painted on glass, both sides. I love this technique as it’s a double shot at creation. Fragile it is, though, which is why I switched to plexi, vinyl, and acetates later on. The Hug has a pyramid, cypress, and two green life forms entwined. In it’s […]
The wide rim of this frame started the piece. To me it was a runway for text. An open blank. WHAT DO MEN NOT HAVE?, 2001, was painted the five days prior to 9/11. The frame came first in the creative process. In the culture of my heritage questions are powerful things, veritably the language of […]
ESSENTIAL MAN, 2002, is detail and essence in one. Two depths to this essential man is narratively true. There are two figures in the piece. But the depths to this piece change with light. It has such a rich and deliciously curious surface as to be unlimited in shadows and light capturing. Painted on glass […]
It is staff and spring, spirit and conviction, freedom and ability. Exuberant, raw and open. Even the canvas it’s painted on is transparent. LIBERTY 14.5″x 11″, painted using acrylics and mixed medium on glass and frame, 2002, NYC.
Since I started painting on things, frames with glass have appealed to me. I had canvas and frame in one. The clear nature of the glass let me paint on both sides, building the art doubly. (The fragility of the glass is why I’ve gone on to acetates and plexi.) In this piece’s case, […]