Resurrection
2010-2014
"Peg and Tom" 2014, Oil on Canvas, 6'x4'
"Dual" 2014, Oil on Canvas, 6'x4'
"The Dream" 2014, Oil on Canvas, 6'x4'
"Grandfather" 2014, Oil on Panel, 8"x10"
"Before the War" 2014, Oil on Canvas
"November 10th, 1936" 2013, Oil on Canvas
"Grandpa" 2013, Oil on Canvas, 28"x38"
"With Love toJack" 2012, Oil on Canvas, 24"x24"
"Alone" 2012, Oil on Canvas, 20"x18"
"Sundae" 2012, Oil on Canvas, 20"x24"
"The Collision of Sinister Thought and Action" 2010, Oil on Canvas with Leather, 24"x36"
"Hemmed In" 2010, Oil on Canvas with Paper, Thread and Fabric, 22"x28"
"Phoenix" 2010, Oil on Canvas, 18"x24"
"Dearly Beloved (Once the Knot is Tied it cannot be Undone)" 2010, Oil on Canvas with Thread, 36"x24"
"With Love, Lula" 2010, Oil on Canvas, 30"x24"
"Forever Yours" 2010, Oil on Canvas, 20"x30"
"Loving Greetings from Ella M" 2010, Oil on Canvas, 22"x28"
"Resurrection in Green" 2010, Oil on Canvas, 22"x28"
Personal Statement: Resurrection
I am fascinated by the things in life that are discarded. In antique stores, you can find countless old portraits; they are people abandoned, sold for a dollar or two. These people, separate from all records of their lives, from all personal connections, exist only in their photograph. Working from found images, I create a narrative based on the subject’s facial features and body language. Parted lips, a downcast eye or a tilted head all hint to some deeper emotion, some character trait from which I can re-imagine their story.
These paintings are a conversation between the past and the present, between imagination and reality, between the implied and the assumed. In the loss of these individual’s history, a freedom was gained: the freedom to create a new reality, a new life, a new way to look at the old and once forgotten.
I am fascinated by the things in life that are discarded. In antique stores, you can find countless old portraits; they are people abandoned, sold for a dollar or two. These people, separate from all records of their lives, from all personal connections, exist only in their photograph. Working from found images, I create a narrative based on the subject’s facial features and body language. Parted lips, a downcast eye or a tilted head all hint to some deeper emotion, some character trait from which I can re-imagine their story.
These paintings are a conversation between the past and the present, between imagination and reality, between the implied and the assumed. In the loss of these individual’s history, a freedom was gained: the freedom to create a new reality, a new life, a new way to look at the old and once forgotten.