Old Portfolios Archive > 2005-2007: Archetoonism

'05-'07
oil panintings on panel and canvas, mixed media on paper, mixed media on panel
As I began to establish my own practice after college I started to work through series in various media. Drawing from various currents in modernist art history I was exploring ways to combine figurative, surrealist and abstract ideas into a contemporary aesthetic. I was highly influenced by early Twentieth Century European Modernist Abstraction, esp Picasso and his slide into the Neo-classic, Klee and Debuffet and their direct, honest, even brutal primitivism, the Surrealist idea of "automatic" drawing as a way to access the subconscious, and contemporary critical theory (Jimmy Durham et al) surrounding colonialism, the Gaze, and the critique of 20th century totalitarianisms.

Holy Family, Part Three
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
2005
Moonlight, Myth, Everything
oil on panel
72 x 48 inches
2005
Ouch
oil, sewing on canvas
18 x 24
2006
Mask
oil, sewing on canvas
18 x 24 inches
2006
$1200
Black Rock (homage a BRC)
oil, sewing on canvas
18 x 24 inches
2006
Sorry, Yorick
oil, sewing on canvas
18 x 24
2006
Triangles
oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
2006
Flowers
oil on panel
48 x 60 inches
2007
Maja
oil on panel
48 x 60 inches
2007
What It Is
oil on panel
24 x 36 inches
2007
Icon F
oil on canvas
12 x 36 inches
2006
Icon M
oil on canvas
12 x 36 inches
2006
Baby
graphite, ink, acryllic on panel
48 x 12 inches
2007
Ambivalence Imaging
Graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper. Hand made re-claimed redwood frame.
10.5 x 14, 13.5 x 17 inched framed
2009
Equal's Emotion
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper; hand made re-claimed redwood frame
10.5 x 14, 13.5 x 17 inches framed
2009
Konig
graphite, ink, colred pencil on paper; hand made re-claimed redwood frame
10.5 x 14, 13.5 x 17 inces framed
2009
Musical Hours
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper; hand made re-claimed redwood frame
10.5 x 14, 13.5 x 17 inches framed
2009
Protection
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper; hand made re-claimed redwood frame
10.5 x 14, 13.5 x 17 inches framed
2009
Self Thinking Thing
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper; hand made reclaimed redwood frame
10.5 x 14, 13.5 x 17 inches framed
2009
Weight
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper; hand made re-claimed redwood frame
10.5 x 14 inches, 13.5 x 17 (framed)
2009
It's Logical Conclusion
ink, graphite, colored pencil on paper; andmade re-claimed redwood frame
10.5 x 14, 13.5 x 17 inches framed
2009
Vegetable Instincts
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper; hand made re-claimed redwood frame
10.5 x 14, 13.5 x 17 inches framed
2009
To Make.  To Mend
graphite, ink, acrylic, oil, collage on panel
9 x 12, 11 x 15 inches framed
2008
$650
Magnolia Seed Study
graphite, ink, oil on panel
9 x 12, 12 x 15 inches framed
2008
Inner Mess - Classical Blue
graphite, ink, oil on panel
8 x 16 inches
2008
Seedpods: To Scratch
graphite, ink, acryllic, oil, collage on panel
16 x 18 inches
2007
Adam and Eve Went to Oakland
graphite, ink, acryllic, oil on panel
17 x 18 inches
2007
A War Story
graphite, ink, acryllic, oil on panel
18 x 17.5 inches
2007
Dissolution
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper
11 x 14 inches
2008
Mister Death
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper
11 x 14 inches
2008
Repose: a Surrealism
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper
11 x 14 inches
2008
Love, in the Grand Tradition
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper
11 x 14 inches
2008
Torn Interior
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper
11 x 14 inches
2008
How to Read a Picture - A Freudian
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper
11 x 14 inches
2008
I Ching
mixed media on paper
8.5 x 11, 11 x 14 inches framed
2010