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An Attempt at Being featured on the cover of Art Reveal Magazine.
Deep in the caves of Lascaux, France, prehistoric artists scraped their charred torches against the cave walls to produce greater light as they moved deeper into the recesses of the cave to create their paintings. I am completely taken by the power of those marks. They represent both the drive to create and the unintentional mark making born of necessity.
Beginning with The New Cave Wall, I attempt to control the media and capture the power of process and the abstract language of fire and fumage. These works are process-driven, comparative studies. Each work was made at the same time, with the same hand and scorched by the exact same flame, and yet each work is unique one to the other. I find there is a visceral recognition and attraction that touches the primal nature of our being.
Concrete, acrylic, fumage, resin on canvas
36 x 48 inches
2016
Concrete, acrylic, fumage, resin on canvas
36 x 48 inches
2016
concrete, acrylic, fumage on canvas
36 x 48 inches
2016
oil, acrylic, fumage, concrete, resin on canvas
11 x 14 inches
oil, acrylic, concrete, fumage, resin on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Impulse
oil, enamel, acrylic, soot, cement, resin on canvas
36 x 36 inches
An Attempt at Being
Oil, acrylic, soot, concrete, resin on canvas
24 x 30 inches
2016