New Work at RAM
All 7 of us grads are finished installing at the Riverside Art Museum for our MFA Show! It’s up and the show looks great if I do say so myself. I will have some pics of the entire exhibition soon. But alas I have some new paintings up. Here is a snippet of one:
I am pretty excited about these works as I feel they are amalgamations of what I like most about portraiture, the landscape and abstraction. I was noticing while painting that I was painting the face as if it were a landscape and the landscape as if it were thin layers of skin, and the abstraction as if it were a garment that someone would wear. These paintings are all connected to the landscape, the body and to the fluidity of thought, in a way that subtly explores the interconnectedness of these forms through the democratizing element of paint, paintings, and scale.
Keeping your eyes open for things that inspire paintings is definitely half the fun. Here is a flower I caught up with midday, whose lovely thin, transparent petals acted like thin layers of paint wrapped around a shadowy, enveloping center that slowly unfolds, revealing that which lies “toward the within”. (Ha! That’s a great Dead Can Dance CD!)
And can’t leave out Lil…This one is so regal and Renaissancey with that white sheet. She is part still life, part commissioned portrait, and all kitty love.
