paintings
Symphonic Poem
(secret pleasure)
6' x 5'
latex on primed canvas
$4800
Symphonic Poem
(silk and linen)
6' x 5'
latex and metallic powder on primed canvas
$4800
Symphonic Poem
(dc on another day)
8 1/2' x 5 1/2'
latex on unprimed canvas
$8000
American Symphony
(bars. no stars I)
6' x 5'
latex on primed canvas
$3800
American Symphony
(bars. no stars II)
6' x 5'
latex on primed canvas
$3800
These paintings extend the abstract expressionist tradition of Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko. Non-narrative in format, the paintings are windows onto the biological soul and are reflections of a moment in time ~ they are not meant to be referential, they are not meant to be sentimental; they are meant to be held in quiet contemplation just as if one were sitting at a symphonic concert. If the experience of the moment could be conveyed in words, the paintings would not need to exist. But the moment cannot be conveyed in words. Thus the universe of these paintings.
I am not a maker of images. ~ Rumi
Symphonic Poem
(into the night I and into the night II)
each is 6' x 5'
latex on primed canvas
sold as a pair
$10000
Symphonic Poem
(new york new york)
6' x 5'
latex on primed canvas
$4800
Symphonic Poem
(new york new york II)
6' x 5'
latex on primed canvas
$4800
Symphonic Poem
(untitled)
6' x 5'
latex and metallic powder on primed canvas
$5400
Symphonic Poem
(black and gold I and black and gold II)
each is 6' x 5'
latex and metallic powder on primed canvas
read essay on symphonic poem in black and gold
sold as a pair
$12000
Symphonic Poem
(blue and gold I and blue and gold II)
each is 6' x 5'
latex and metallic powder on primed canvas
sold as a pair
$12000
SOLD
I have been making these drawings since I was three years old. A pencil and paper in the hands of a child usually result in uncontrolled scribbles. I, however, drew horizontal lines, often with curly-cues. It is as if I came into this life ready to write.
Before I could read, I would see my mother make a shopping list or write a note and know it was something powerful, something magical ~ it had meaning. Surely, I was imitating her as I drew, hoping myself to create magic and meaning.
In one sense, these paintings are about writing a poem ~ the lines are smooth and graceful and musical. In my poetry, no single word draws attention to itself from the others ~ the poetic lines are as unselfconscious as the painted ones.
In another sense, these paintings are really about the act of creation ~ drawing art from the experience of the divinity of the world, creating symbols to communicate the incommunicable.
While not depicting literal language, these paintings share the Asian aesthetic for appreciation of the graphic quality of writing itself as art. The cycle of paintings depicts the place where pure idea and language mingle, where language forms from an abstract concept. This "pre-language" calligraphy allows the art to access a more universal, primal vocabulary.
The process of creating these paintings is an active meditation and maintaining the meditative state is crucial to their execution. And the transference of that meditative state is available to the viewer open to a spark of magic.
Jazz Poem
(Blue Portrait of DC)
8' x 5 1/2'
latex on raw canvas
$8000
SOLD
Jazz Poem
(DC as Blue Cosmic Dust)
5' x 5 1/2'
latex and metallic powder on raw canvas
$4800
SOLD
Jazz Poem
(DC as the Song of the Earth)
40" x 40"
latex and metallic powder on primed canvas
$3200
SOLD (see film)
Jazz Poem
(Winter Landscape with Flute)
40" x 48"
latex and metallic powder on primed canvas
$800
Jazz Poem
(Revolution Revelation)
8' x 5 1/2'
latex on raw canvas
$8000
Jazz Poem
(Brown Cosmic Dust)
7' x 5 1/2'
graphite, latex, and metallic powder on raw canvas
$7000
SOLD
Jazz Poem
(Ice Cream in Heaven)
8' x 5 1/2'
latex, graphite, and metallic powder on raw canvas
$8200
SOLD
Jazz Poem
(In the Beginning)
5 1/2' x 5 1/2'
latex on raw canvas
$4200
Jazz Poem
(Dream of Lao Tzu)
11" x 14"
graphite and latex on primed canvas
$300
SOLD
Jazz Poem
(San Francisco)
8' x 5 1/2'
latex and metallic powder on raw canvas
$8000
SOLD (see film)
