Newest work in the studio: Golden-Winged Warblers, female and male

Golden-winged Warblers have suffered one of the steepest population declines of any songbird species in the past 45 years. Golden-winged Warblers breed in tangled, shrubby habitats such as regenerating clearcuts, wet thickets, and tamarack bogs. They often move into nearby woodland when the young have fledged. They spend winters in open woodlands and shade-coffee plantations of Central and South America.

Male and female. Each 8.25 x 5.25 x .75 inches. Acrylic on cast acrylic panel. 2023

Adagio: A Summer Viewing Room

Now showing by appointment-only through September 1st at Yi Gallery in Brooklyn , NY

You can sign up for an appointment, online, here. A special group presentation - on view both online and in the gallery space - highlighting select inventory works by gallery artists.

With this exhibition Yi Gallery continues their tradition of  providing an open and well-informed platform for conceptually rigorous and formally inventive projects where the poetic and critical program prioritizes context and discovery. 

https://gallery-yi.com/exhibitions/30-a-d-a-g-i-o-summer-viewing-room/

American Abstract Artists

I’m honored to be elected an American Abstract Artists organization member. American Abstract Artists is a historic, democratically run, non-profit arts organization based in New York City. Founded in 1936 in New York City when abstract art was met with strong critical resistance. Its publishing, panels, and lectures provide a forum for discussion and give abstract art theoretical support in the United States. AAA contributed to the development and acceptance of abstract art in the United States. American Abstract Artists is one of the few artists’ organizations to survive the Great Depression and continue into the 21st century.

Catalog available for 'a clearing'

The online catalog for the exhibition ‘a clearing’ is now available to view here.

from “Where I Find Myself” series, Twilight & Dawn…

acrylic on cast acrylic panels, each 12 inches square, 2022

Wood Thrush

The newest member of the Migration series has hatched.

“Conservation status: Near Threatened Population decreasing. The wood thrush is the official bird of the District of Columbia. One of the first songsters to be heard in the morning and among the last in the evening, the male sings his haunting ee-oh-lay song from an exposed perch in the midstory or lower canopy.” ~ The Cornell Lab

Wood Thrush

5.25 x 8.25 x .75, acrylic on cast acrylic, 2023

Migration Series continues

Extending my pursuit of using color as a way to show time, this ongoing series documents the plumage colors of birds migrating through Central Park in NYC during a year. Choosing three colors from each subject, they offer an essence of that species. Before beginning a painting, I study the call/song and movements of the particular bird with a desire to demonstrate fidelity to that species. The bands and blocks of color on translucent slabs of plexiglass mimic some of my experiences as a novice birdwatcher; a color appears but then seems to disappear as the bird moves, and a color not seen suddenly appears as the viewer moves. The interaction of materials selected for this project allows the colors to be visibly separate in some places and optically mixed in others. Juxtaposing areas of color with unpainted areas of the translucent panel references the air-like realm in which the birds exist. The size and shape of the color blocks on the panel reference that bird’s characteristics, such as the long thin aigrette feathers of the Great Egret, which appear only during its breeding season.

Horizontal predominantely white painting with vertical stripes of color referencing the bird Great Egret.

Great Egret, 10 x 24 x .75 inches, acrylic on cast acrylic, 2022

Painting on Porch

I’m honored to be included in this publication of a delightfully eclectic collection of artworks experienced from a specific space. Forward by Al Ravitz. Concept and curation by Sue Ravitz. Design by Flat Fix. 2021

A week in Times. The 50-panel series as montage.

Here’s a quick look at my 50-panel painting project chronicling the pandemic. What started as a way to express my outrage at the upheaval during this time grew to become an anchor, holding me steady to take in the event’s day-to-day. Using the front page of the New York Times as a scaffolding, I replaced one image in the newspaper with a color from the sky while writing the photo’s caption at the bottom of each panel. Mixing beauty and news of the day in a panel the size of the newspaper.

A few captions from the series: “Mourners laid flowers and notes on the steps of the Supreme Court on Friday night after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 9.20.2020”, “A week in Times. 11.15.2020 Democracy at Risk. Refrigerated trailers are being used as morgues by El Paso’s medical examiner’s office.”, and “President Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday night, became the first president to address Congress with two women behind him as the next officials in the line of succession. “Our government still works,” he said. 4.29. 2021 First 100 days #100”

The variation in image quality and exposure is due to not being able to reach my photographer for professional photographs during the pandemic. They are all on the same white resin panels, each is 22” x 12”, the size of the front page of the NY Times.