Galleries
Bay Places is, oddly enough, a gallery of San Francisco Bay Area scenes. These are primarily images of San Francisco buildings, but also include Oakland buildings, perspectives of the Peninsula, and landscapes of the Salinas Valley. All are acrylic on wood panel, in size from 30" up to 96", and most were painted before 2022. Another common factor is their basis in drawings made from photo reference, usually from a high and distant perspective. I love the way this approach compresses the visual space, emphasizing an extreme foreground and a distant background. In the cityscapes, it places distant buildings in the same picture plane, making an alternate reality made true by that specific perspective. I then simplify these structures and patterns, resulting in a more abstracted painting that still retains representational properties.
The Linear Spaces paintings evolved from previous work and the desire for new directions. Wanting to make my landscapes and cityscapes more cohesive, they work as a singular expression regardless of subject matter. These pieces share a common approach in composition, color and mark-making. The biggest change is in moving away from depicting specific buildings to concentrate on geometric patterns of windows, simplified in the same manner as the landscape fields. Still identifiable as the real-life spaces that inspired them, they are more abstracted and
rendered in brighter color. The most defining element of this work is an expanded exploration of line as an expressive mark. Extensive taping, varied paint application, and use of non-traditional tools combine for an abundance of linear marks. These pieces were done after 2022, ranging in size from 24" to 90".
The Linear Spaces paintings evolved from previous work and the desire for new directions. Wanting to make my landscapes and cityscapes more cohesive, they work as a singular expression regardless of subject matter. These pieces share a common approach in composition, color and mark-making. The biggest change is in moving away from depicting specific buildings to concentrate on geometric patterns of windows, simplified in the same manner as the landscape fields. Still identifiable as the real-life spaces that inspired them, they are more abstracted and
rendered in brighter color. The most defining element of this work is an expanded exploration of line as an expressive mark. Extensive taping, varied paint application, and use of non-traditional tools combine for an abundance of linear marks. These pieces were done after 2022, ranging in size from 24" to 90".