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EssenceMy work is concerned with color, process, time and emotion. It reacts to inner and external stimuli. Painting is a magical experience—sometimes painful, sometimes exhilarating—always a magnificent obsession. Andre Derain wrote that brushstorkes in the hands of the fauves are "sticks of dynamite." For me, color is spiritual, sometimes assaultive. It has a life of its own. Paint can be as explosive as objects dynamited, as Pollack new so well. Wherever I am, awake or dreaming, I think about my work. How to manipulate color, stroke, emotion, composition, Hoffmanian push and pull to control the eye and express my feelings. The formal considerations of the creative process. How can this process reveal the paint itself? Whether paper of canvas as a work is not a subject, fundamentally it is pigment and application with a characteristic of its own. Matisse wrote in 1912, "The problem is to dominate reality and by extracting substance to reveal itself." Not the thing–but the Essence of things. To reveal the Essence–with a capitol E–has become the major concern of my work. In 1945, Paul Valery wrote, "Perhaps hat we call perfection in art is not more than the sense of wanting or finding in a human work–that certainty of execution–that inner necessity, that indissoluble reciprocal union between design and matter." For me, my work is a gateway to the unknown. It is not an easy road. It is about Essence–my essence as well–the core of my being–revealed. The summation of my soul–perhaps dangerously revealed–to be viewed–to reach out–to meet your own.
Solo Exhibits
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