This new series was initially inspired by a series of pen and ink studies in Leonardo’s Notebooks investigating the force of water and storms that I have always been drawn to. Leonardo’s themes are echoed in the intensity and scale of contemporary weather patterns caused by global warming. Compelling environmental concerns frame the content of my current work.
“The Force” 8ft 8" x 10ft 8” oil on canvas, 2020
Initially inspired by a series of pen and ink studies in Leonardo’s Notebooks investigating the force of storms, this series evolved at the same time as the peril to our forests all dealing with the potential devastating impact of the warming climate.
Using images from the street, 19th Century land-marked architecture and found materials, this work exposes contradictions inherent in recent history, time and change. 21st Century signage, Bronx poetry and rubbings from plaques merge with photo transfers and drawing posing the past against the restored, regenerated present.
Laser transfers, collaged dry wall,
construction elements, graphite block, ink
Text from Mott Haven historic plaque,
poetry from Roger Bonair Agaard
3 of 5 panels: 6ft x 20ft • 2005-2006
pastel, collage and photo transfer, 39’x26’ (99.06 x 66.04 cm)
pastel, photo transfer, 17.32’ x 21.25’ (44 x 54 cm)
pastel, collage and photo transfer, 22’x30.5’ (55.88 x 77.47cm)
pastel, collage and photo transfer, 14’ x9’ (35.56 x 21.86 cm)
pastel, collage and photo transfer, 14’ x9’ (35.56 x 21.86 cm)
pastel, collage, photo transfer, 20'x16' (51 x 41 cm), 2015
Ruins of the Ruhr Valley iron smelting industry posed against ancient Roman architectural ruins
pastel, collage, photo transfer, 30” x 23 1/4”, (76 x 59 cm), 2015
Ruins of the Ruhr Valley iron smelting industry posed against ancient Roman architectural ruins
pastel, collage, photo transfer, 30” x 23 1/4”, (76 x 59 cm), 2015
Ruins of the Ruhr Valley iron smelting industry posed against ancient Roman architectural ruins
Architecture Avante Guarde“
pastel, collage, photo transfer, 23 x 30", 2015 ,
Ruins of the Ruhr Valley iron smelting industry posed against ancient Roman architectural ruins.
Powerful roots, nourished by plentiful sun and rain dwarf and strangle to ancient temples of Angkor. Fluid, calligraphic drawing and collage found materials are posed against the veracity of photo-based transferred images referring to Cambodia’s tragic history. Torn edges and severed forms fused with images of ancient ruins evoke our 21st C participation in a precarious process of transience and change.
pastel, collage, 94 1/2 'x 61' (240 x 155cm)
pastel, ink, collage, 39 1/8'x 30 1/2' (99,5 x 101cm )
pastell, ink, collage, 39 1/8'x43'(99,5 x 109cm)
pastel, ink, collage 44'x 30' (112cm x 79cm)
pastel, pencil 11'x 13' (28x33 cm) 3 parts, 2010
Pastel, ink, In sand-cast Bronze, 41' x71' (104.14 x 180.34 cm)
Powerful roots, nourished by plentiful sun and rain dwarf and strangle the ancient temples of Angkor evoking questions about our 21st Century hubris in the face of global warming. Fluid, calligraphic drawing and collage found materials are posed against torn edges, severed forms sand-cast bronze elements.
Pastel, ink, In sand-cast Bronze, 41' x71' (104.14 x 180.34 cm)
Pastel, ink, In sand-cast Bronze, 41’ x71' (104.14 x 180.34 cm)
Pastel, ink, In sand-cast Bronze41' x 60' (104.14 x 152.4 cm)
2 x 13 Gallery, Chelsea, NY, Statt Museum ,Köln
In these images of rapidly disappearing Hudson River structures the veracity of photo-based transfers of architectural and structural remnants are fused with collage, drawing and discarded materials such as broken dry wall. The work is concerned with time, change, and construct layered images of architectural change as a precariously ordered balance on the edge of entropy.
Collage / Construction
Laser photo transfers, pastel, ink, collaged construction materials
6ft x 10ft • 2008
in private collection
Collage / Construction
Laser photo transfers, pastel, ink, collaged construction materials
6ft x 5ft • 2007
in private collection
Installation
Laser photo transfers, pastel, ink, collaged elements
Collaboration with photographer Tyko Kihlstedt
41” x 31” • 2007
in private collection
Installation
Laser photo transfers, pastel, ink, collaged elements
Collaboration with photographer Tyko Kihlstedt
41” x 31” (104 x 79cm), 2007
in private collection
in private collection
in private collection
Laser photo transfers, pastel, ink, collaged elements, 40” x 29”, (102x 74cm) 2006
in private collection
Laser photo transfers, pastel, ink, collaged elements, 40” x 29”, (102x 74cm) ,2006
in private collection
Installation with 'As Wind' twisted steel angle, 6ft x 8ft x 2ft, group of 3 sections
in the background: #1,#5,#4 (left to right) of the Hudson River Series: Hudson River Structural Transformations, Laser photo transfers, pastel ink, collaged elements, 40'x29' (102cm x74cm), 2006
in private collection
Steel Trees, Like Wind, Twisted steel I Beams and angle iron
Drawing / constructions in background
Laser photo transfers, pastel, ink, collaged construction materials.
8ft. x 20ft • 2008
in private collection
Twisted steel angle&copper cable, 5ft x 2ft x 2ft,
Hudson River Structural Transformations (#1,#5,#4 left to right) in the background.
Installation at the Philips Museum Franklin&Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 2005
in private collection
in private collection
Twisted steel angle & copper cable, 5ft x 2ft x 2ft, “Time Changed” in background
in private collection
in private collection
Drawing and collaged images of resonant historic structures are meshed with found materials. Text is sometimes used as a structural and iconographic element constructing and deconstructing layered images. "The ruptures of history and accumulated catastrophes have made the ruin a witness, not to the past but a paradigm of the present."
Laser photo transfers, pastel, graphite, frottage, collaged elements, 40' x 6ft (102cm x 183cm)
Laser photo transfers, pastel, graphite, frottage, collaged elements, 40' x 6ft (102cm x 183cm)
graphite, ink, pastel, collage, 40'x 30' (102 x 76 cm)
graphite, ink, pastel, collage 44'x33' (112x 84cm)
graphite, ink, pastel, collage
private collection
“Still Standing Still” acrylic & pastel and pastel, ink, steel, collage 70” x 68”, 2011
“Still Standing Still” Detail acrylic & pastel and pastel, ink, steel, collage 70” x 68”, 2011
pastel, ink, collage, photo transfers
70” x 68”, 2012
acrylic, photo transfer, pastel, 28'x 38' (71x 98cm), 2011
canvas, pastel, acrylic!,
tree shard images of trees and electric wires felled by hurricane “Sandy” in Woodlawn cemetery with tree shard
Studio installation detail: 2015
dry wall, canvas, collaged materials, laser photo transfers, panel 9ft x 4ft wide, 2013,work uses torn edges, canvas, calligraphic drawing, collage and photo transfers of relics of a disappeared culture neighboring images of current environments floods and virulent plant growth.
installation grouping with massive granite ,studio installation detaill,2015
in private collection
sand-cast bronze, pastel, laser photo transfer, 39,5'x 28' (100x 70cm)
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