Old Portfolios Archive > 2010: the white paintings

fall/winter 2010/11
oil and mixed media on various surfaces

As the recession wore on, a whiteness descended, pure exhaustion, and I realized that forgetting, almost more than remembering, is how we create meaning, narrative, and myth from the basic metaphysical properties of yes and no. I went through a "white" period, making hybrid drawing-paintings, to understand the guts of an image, the way you can feel a shape through your eyes, a story through a shape. By limiting color, representational images were drained of specificity, fossilized, mythologized. The process keeps leading back to myths...back to love and sex and death..., desire, power, need, life. My life. Art: the eternal stall tactic. I thought I would brand my paintings. They ended up branding me...

The Last Word Laughing
graphite, oil, assemblage on panel
48 x 48 inches
2009
contemporary impressionistic oil painting city scape
oil, graphite on panel
8 x 12 inches
2010
$250
west coast contemporary art
oil, graphite, charcoal on canvas
21 x 28.5 inches
2010
$2000
Muse 3
oil, graphite, charcoal on canvas
21 x 28.5 inches
2010
$2000
Flight
mixed media on panel
24 x 20 inches
2011
$1250
Bonsai (Homage to Matisse)
oil on panel
8 x 12 inches
2011
Trickster
oil, graphite on salvaged crate panel
22.75 x 29 inches
2011
$1100
portraits, drawings, paintings, vortex, Native Rights, history, ceremony, reality, contemporary art, contemporary paintings, surrealism
charcoal, oil on canvas
46" x 32.5"
2011
$3900
This is About Color
oil on canvas
18 x 37.5 inches
2011
contemporary oil painting portraits
Oil, charcoal on canvas, framed
18 x 24 inches
2010
$1200
Quiet Cataclysm in White
graphite, acryllic, oil on plywood panel
72 x 12 inches. Sextych (six pieces)
2011
$2250
A.Q.C.I.W. panel two detail
oil on panel
12 x 12 inches
2011
A.Q.C.I.W. panel six, detail
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
2011
Support
mixed media on paper
11 x 14, 16 x 20 inches framed
2010
$380
Protection: Missis Death
mixed media on paper and glass
16 x 20 inches
2010
$380
Breaking Apart
oil, resin on canvas
16 x 24 inches
2011
A.Q.C.I.W. panel one
oil on panel
12 x 12 inches
2011
A.Q.C.I.W. panel three
oil on panel
12 x 12 inches
2011
A.Q.C.I.W. panel four
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
2011
A.Q.C.I.W. panel five
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
2011
Love, Is The Answer
collage, mixed media on panel
8 x 10 inches. SOLD
2010
City Study 2
oil, graphite, assemblage on panel
8 x 16 inches
2010
Castles In The Sky
oil, graphite, charcoal on canvas
46.5 x 37 inches
2011
Bird
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
32 x 48 inches
2010
Muse 2
oil, graphite, charcoal on canvas
21 x 28.5 inches
2010
Muse 4: The Look
oil, graphite, charcoal on canvas
28 x 36 inches
2010
Sounds Like This
oil on canvas
22 x 30 inches
2011
Electric Muse 1
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
17.75 x 23.25 inches
2010
Electric Muse 2
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
17.75 x 23.25 inches
2010
Electric Muse 3
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
17.75 x 23.25 inches
2010
Electric Muse 4
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
17.75 x 23.25 inches
2010
Untitled (Gray and Crimson)
oil on panel
8 x 12 inches
2011
Long Kiss Goodnight
oil, acryllic on panel
30 x 30 inches
2011
Drawing Drawings
mixed media on panel
12 x 12 inches
2011
Moving Right Along
mixed media on panel
12 x 12 inches
2011
Quietly
mixed media on panel
12 x 12 inches
2011
They Make Us Perform
graphite on paper
10 x 10 inches
2011
Children Understand
ink, graphite on paper
10 x 10 inches
2011
Their will be done
ink, graphite on paper
10 x 10 inches
2011
So Sad Pt 1
mixed media on paper
9.5 x 11
2011
sketches of heartbreak
mixed media on paper
9.5 x 11
2011
So Sad Pt 2, Pt 2
mixed media on paper
8.5 x 11
2011
Paint Me A Future
oil on panel
23 x 24 inches
2011
Jonah and The Speech Bubble
oil on panel
23 x 24 inches
2011
Cave Art Window: Animal
oil on tarpaper, salvaged window frame
48 x 24 inches
2011
Cave Art Window: Bird
oil on tarpaper, salvaged window frame
48 x 27 inches
2011
Art For Youth Worshiping Rights
oil, graphite, charcoal, spray paint on canvas
36 x 24 inches, diptych
2011
Stope Motion Part 5 Part 2
charcoal, gesso, window, oil color, inkjet print, tape
30 x 30 x 3.5 inches
2012