Hello and Welcome Back! Another great book recommendation by artist Robert Irwin:

Hello and Welcome Back! I thought this week I would share two really exciting shows I was in last year:

The Florida Biennial, The Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL (forthcoming)  •  Juror: Artspace Curator and Gallery Director Sarah Fritchey:

The Gallery, The Armory Show at Pier 92/94, New York, NY
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Hello and Welcome Back! Another wonderful book recommendation by legendary artist Jack Whitten, ‘Notes from the Woodshed’.

Hello and Welcome Back! Today I want to share my favorite blog of all time Raggedy Ann’s Foot created by the amazing artist Elisabeth Condon. Elisabeth takes you on an art journey with each entry. It always makes me feel like we are walking through exhibitions together looking at work. I highly recommend it!

Hello and Welcome Back! While studying architecture at Virginia Tech I was introduced to the idea of Genius Loci or the spirit of place, a space where meaning is composed of ordered time, a layered space of substances, texture, color and man’s psychic framework.

Plein Air painting has always been a huge part of my studio practice. Below is a plein air painting created at the Oregon Trail Ruts in South East Wyoming while at the Jentel Artists Residency in 2008. It is a place carved out of time. Wagon wheels, animals and people wore down the trail about two to six feet into a sandstone ridge during its heaviest usage by American Pioneers.

Hello and Welcome Back! Below is a new sketch for another Low-Relief Sculpture Painting

Hello and Welcome Back! I finished this piece about a month ago, it is part of my low relief sculptural painting series. Love how this piece captures a character or personality. ‘Draped Structure XI’, 2019, linen, thread, paper clay, ink, velvet, porcelain, sterling silver chain, 14x12x6

Hello and Welcome Back! Architecture has a huge role in my work. Bernard Tschumi’s book Questions of Space has influenced me since the late 90’s when I studied architecture. Tschumi interprets architecture as a reality in terms of not simply being about space and form, but also about event, action and what happens in space. He proposes that architecture is composed of difference and opposition rather than synthesis and totality, meaning reality can never be fixed, but is produced from isolated frames, disjunction and abounding events.

Hello and Welcome Back! Below is a sketch and work in progress for a new low relief sculptural painting (made of linen). Super exited to get this one finished…

Hello and Welcome back! Sketching out my ideas for my low relief sculptural paintings is a big part of my process. Once I sketch in my sketchbook I take ideas further by creating larger drawings to work out details: