FIGURES, FACES AND CREATURES
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The figures include an angry artist's model and a couple of images of Sophia Loren dancing, her skirt flying uncontrollably in San Miguel de Allende (a city in central Mexico that because of a series of mysterious coincidences became my winter home). The faces are many and varied, including a number of Molls and my versions of Zola's Nana. One obvious creature is my awkwardly regal dog perched on a stump; less obvious is a Sea Monster arising over an abstract and evidently unaware man on the beach.Smoking is a repeated theme (though, thankfully, I never gathered the habit), showing up in a series of cigarette-wielding woman and more recently in a large group of cigar-smoking men with social pretensions. My recent take-offs on Seurat paintings led to an abstracted rendition of the artist's "Woman with a Powder Puff," (the woman Seurat's secret mistress), which became a parody of both the pointillist technique and feminine vanity of yesteryear. |
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Artist's Model Shoots Artist, acrylic on canvas, 28x19
Smoking Woman with Potted Plant, Acrylic, 2020, 17x12
Dog On A Stump, acrylic on paper, 2021, 30x22.
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Woman with Smoking Gun (gold), acrylic on canvas, 2020, 15x12
Sea Monster with Man on Beach, acrylic and photograph on paper, 2020, 12x15
. Nana, oil on canvas, 2020, 32x19. Nana was
inspired by Zola's novel. Prices range from $225 to $350 for pure archival prints. Prints with significant alterations in acrylic, collage, etc., and large works on paper are from $1200 to $3000. (Elaborate works like The Scientific Analysis of Seurat's Woman Powdering Herself, to the right, are examples of the higher priced work.} Works on canvas are $1000 for smaller pieces and for bigger work r$2800 to $4000, |
Whereabouts Unknown, Mx Pechstein's Smoker 1917, archival pigment print with acrylic on paper, 2020 (original 1999).
Below: The scientific Analysis of Seurat's Woman Powdering Herself, acrylic on paper, 2020, 32x23 
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Vincent As A Ked, acrylic with pigment print, 2019, 17x12 (Note the "ked" joke please)
Sneakers by Roy Lichtenstein
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Jiggs, acrylic on paper, 2021, 22x30
The Jiggs series began as quick wandering ink lines inspired by the old Jiggs and Maggie comic strip. It developed into many permutations of a character with a cigar, the smoke rendered as an abstract shape or a veil of black that invades half the sheet.
Mister Diggs, oil on canvas, 2018, 15x20
Joe Rainbow, acrylic on paper, 2019, 22x30
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Sad Man, acrylic on canvas, 2020
The Male Gaze with Seurat Nude, acrylic on paper, 2020, 30x22
Bruce with Cypress and moon, acrylic on
paper, 2022, 30x42 |
