I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom…People who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. Mark Rothko The larger pieces are where I find most comfort. The most freedom to express. The color work is created only from primary colors and the […]
Read more "Untitled 0.26 (48×60, oil on canvas) – SOLD"The essence of these paintings is motion, the force that brings light out of dark and substance out of void, the ultimate drama. Arts Magazine, September 1958. Looking to continue the thoughts and process of Untitled 0.23, this piece flowed and developed in a very interesting way. What was wonderful about this commissioned piece was […]
Read more "Untitled 0.24 (36×48, oil on canvas) – Commissioned"The look of my figures is abstract, and to the spectator they may not appear to be figures at all. They are the expression, in abstract terms, of emotions and states of awareness. Louise Bourgeois, 1954 This piece was in process at the same time of some very in-depth prayer and introspective work I’ve embarked […]
Read more "Untitled 0.23 (30×48, oil on canvas)"The painting itself is a “moment” in the adulterated mixture of his life – whether “moment” means, in one case, the actual minutes taken up with spotting the canvas or, in another, the entire duration of a lucid drama conducted in sign language. Art News, December 1952 The move to larger format canvas has been […]
Read more "Untitled 0.22 (30×48, oil on canvas) – COMMISSIONED"The question is how to name what as yet has been unnamed… Robert Motherwell, Modern Artists in America (1951) This piece began as tribute. As practice. As an idea. It originally began as some fun work thinking about Robert Motherwell. It didn’t take long to realize this work was to become something else. Explore. Tension. […]
Read more "Untitled 0.20 – (12X16 oil on mounted canvas) – SOLD"It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way – not his way. Letter to the Editor. New York Times. Gottlieb, Rothko, Newman (1945) Intense. Inspired. Ornery. …and if you complain once more, you will meet an army of me.
Read more "Untitled 0.21 (12×16 oil on mounted canvas)"To us, art is an adventure into an unknown world… of the imagination {which} is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense… It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted – Letter to the Editor, New York Times. Adolph Gottlieb […]
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