Old Portfolios Archive > 2008-2013: urban organic

Spring, 2010;
mixed media on raw plywood panels.
Continuing my utilization of re-claimed materials that began when I moved to Oakland in 2006, this work is a mediation on nature, social constructions of "the natural", pattern, incidence, memory, consciousness, growth and decay. I began sourcing botanical and figurative images to integrate into the abstract spaces I had developed in my mixed media thought experiments of the previous few years. Interested in synthesizing opposites into new wholes, I was trying make the surfaces of the pictures, and the images in the pictures, both malleable and solid, looking glasses into another world that is in fact our own, as a memory constructs the self, and disappears without it...or does it?

How to Draw a Flower Pt 1: Mandala
graphite, ink, oil, resin, burn on birch
25.5 x 19.5 inches
2010
How To Draw A Flower Pt 2: Belle
graphite, gesso on maple
10.5 x 13.5
2010
Intersection
ink, gesso, polyurethane on maple
19.875 x 8.25 inches
2010
Youth and Beauty and That Which Truly Matters Pt 2
graphite, gesso, spraypaint, acrylic on maple
24 x 11.5 inches
2010
$650
Subject Object Pt. 3: Stop Thinkin' J
graphite, ink, oil, resin, acrylic, spraypaint on maple
18 x 10.5 inches
2010
$650
Jordan Quintero Art
graphite, ink, colored pencil, resin on maple
22.5 x 11 inches
2010
Dragonflower
graphite, ink, colored pencil, oil, resin on maple
22.5 x 11 inches
2010
Wisdom and Understanding
graphite, ink, oil, resin, collage on maple
11 x 18.5 inches
2010
figurative abstract surrealist mixed media
graphite, ink, oil, resin, burning on maple
11 x 18.5 inches
2010
$650
Self Portrait as Dr. Manhattan
graphite, ink, oil, resin on maple
18.5 x 11 inches
2010
Late Rains Pt 1: Time
graphite, ink, oil, varnish on birch
18 x 18 inches
2010
detail
2010
figurative abstract surrealist mixed media
graphite, ink, oil, varnish, assemblage on birch
19 x 19 inches framed
2010
detail
2010
Extension
collage, graphite, ink, resin on maple
9.75 x 25.5 inches
2010
Intersection 2
ink, oil, resin, charcoal, colored pencil, spray paint on birch
18 x 24 inches
2010
Urban Organic Pt 2: Logos
graphite, ink, oil, resin on maple
8.25 x 37.75 inches
2010
Urban Organic Pt 3: Pathos
graphite, ink, oil, colored pencil, resin on maple
8.25 x 43.375 inches
2010
Urban Organic Pt 4: Ethos
graphite, ink, colored pencil on maple
7.25 x 48.5
2010
Space: live love work
mixed media on maple panel, triptych
12 x 36 inches
2011
Drawings That's Gots Soul
graphite, ink, gesso, colored pencil, burn on maple
7.25 x 36.625
2010