Heart Works

Everyday Mystic

Skulls (Stencil Relief Prints)

Past Life Love

Peacocks

Self Portraits 2023

Abstract LP

Ghost Prints (Wonder Woman)

Last Spring

Ghost Prints (Last Spring)

Bearings

Ghost Prints (Bearings)

Skulls

Little Monster

SuperGirl

Wonder Woman

Integrating The Shadow (revisited)

Bubbles

Papa

Multi Meta (Yvonne Craig)

Hawks

Eleven

Steamboats

Thoreau

Department Of Interior

Primordial

Larger Presence

Tractors

Humanoid Erotica

Spontaneous Design

Thomas Garrett

New Works On Paper

Joe Strummer

New Abstracts

Thomas Edison

Lucy Parsons

Abolitionist

Wood On Wood

People Are King

New Ghost Prints

Get To The Pie

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Assemblage

Emmeline Pankhurst

Conversations

Queen Tahj

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Front Lines

Kitsch Fix

Houzenga Hearts

Sweet Dreams'

WhiteOnWhite

All of this color is giving me a headache. Just kidding. The WhiteOnWhite series grew out of necessity. For years people have been intrigued by the stencils that are usually used to create most of my paintings. With that in mind and a personal need to showcase my Xacto skills, the WhiteOnWhite series was born. These are my first major experiments with cut paper as a finished product.

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Science

Subject Object Dichotomy

Heartbreaker

Gates Of The West

If you asked me I wouldn’t say I’m a huge fan of the 1960s Adam West Batman but on the other hand I really love it. Working with this imagery is about going back in time, tracing the feelings, the moments, the connections. When I was young it didn’t matter that the show was cheesy. It was something I loved on the screen. Batman in any form. Give it to me. I’ll take it. I want it. I’m still kinda like that. There’s also an element of safety that bubbles up, being comfortable at my Granny’s house. She letting me stay up late and me feeling warm, partaking in all the snacks that might not be available at home. The cable television that is not yet available at home. No doubt this is following a delicious meal. Grandpa Bob has gone to sleep after a few minutes. He likes Batman but he’s seen them all before. I’m not alone. Granny is dosing in the chair. Nick At Night is coming in loud and clear.

Frederick Douglass

Somewhere In Time

To make a long story short: I lead with my heart. It led me to Maude Adams. She was a turn of the century theater actress. She was very famous for her time and most well known for playing the part of Peter Pan.

To make a short story long: The story in which I came across Maude and her image goes like this.

For the last 13 years I've been painting people from photographs that I found in someones trash from the 1890's. You could say that I fell in love with them. Last year I was commissioned to paint a piano in Iowa and in searching for a famous pianist to paint on the piano I found Roger Williams. He was born and raised in Iowa and is the only solo pianist to ever have had a number one hit (before the dawn of rock and roll). In researching Roger I found that he had done the music for the closing credits of a movie called "Somewhere In Time". I read the synopsis. It's about a man who falls in love with a photograph of a woman and goes back in time to have a love affair with her. This sounded right up my alley and very similar to my story. Another coincidence(?) - the movie stars Christopher Reeve - I had just painted him for Superman Fest which takes place in Metropolis, IL every year.

All of these things combined added up to one thing: I gotta watch this movie. So I watched it and it was great. I also watched the special features and there was an interview with the man who wrote the book that the movie was based on. He said that he wrote the book after seeing and falling in love with a picture of Maude Adams. When her photograph came on the screen I got crazy chills. Like the author, I too fell in love and had to paint her.