Streets Of San Francisco

Streets Of San Francisco [2014] – 16 x 20″ – spraypaint on wood panel

Intersubjective transference combines image memory with patterned abstraction to yield a dream image of fish in flight, I can paint something I see only after painting it.

Democracy Now

Democracy Now [2014] – 20 x 30″ – spraypaint on wood panel

This intricate machinery underlying civilization demonstrates interconnectedness, granularity and the inherent conflict resulting from a wrench in the works, another street art-inspired howl from the denizens of the deep, even as they/we harness the frustration of containment and continue in pursuit of learning.

Salsa Night

Salsa Night [2014] – 18 x 24″ – spray paint on wood panel

I look for patterns of movement within the painted surface, to bring out the silhouettes of fish I can see there as if they were already swimming in that space, and use color to enhance those patterns and establish a sense of natural movement, in this process of composition is the wabi-sabi of technical inclinations and gestural intuition, and it makes me want to swim with the fish.

Off The Grid

Off The Grid [2014] – 20 x 30″ – spraypaint on wood panel

An intimate look at an imaginary aquatic world, fish drifting over the manufactured reef of industrial artifacts, their altered habitat for the foreseeable future, unnatural yet beautiful in its own disconcerting way.

Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle [2014] – 24 x 36″ – spray paint on wood panel

Here is a large intense piece completed in late 2014, recently included in my solo exhibition Aquasphere: Immersion at the Waldorf School of Baltimore.

A dark environment, visually and metaphorically, these creatures are lost and encapsulated in the turmoil resulting from centuries of assault by human industry, yet there is still a beautiful optimism and clarity in the undersea world.

I can almost feel the indifference of nature, the fish will adapt to any environmental invasion no matter how bizarre, they will evolve, mutate and thrive without passing value judgements, but we know there are alternatives, conservation efforts no matter how inadequate will continue to grow in order to try and mitigate the damage.

Meanwhile the fish keep swimming through their altered state, bright colors and high contrast provide connotations of radioactivity and electromagnetic fields, an underwater urban environment neutralized by rising sea levels, giant fish thriving in the post-apocalyptic Atlantis that represents one possible future.

The Familiar Flow Of Scenery

 

The Familiar Flow Of Scenery

Dark and languid, drifting in a dreamlike landscape of dancing fish displaced from their depths.