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acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
images 1: detail
image 2: full painting
photo credit: Michael Miller
Suffusion is a body of work created in part in Costa Rica, at the Mauser Foundation international artist residency, located in the hills outside of Parrita, about an hour inland from Jaco. The roads into the hills are dusty, but the landscape reflects remnant lushness from unexpected rains. The view might be similar to a view generations have seen or Alexander von Humboldt would have celebrated, green swells dotted with palm trees and a robin’s egg blue sky dusky with humidity from a glimmering sea in the distance. Close up however, the network of life is detailed, continuous, and interconnected at a scale far more minute than the human eye can perceive.
Suffusion:
when something slowly spreads throughout something else, like a feeling or a color
the gradual saturating of some substance or shade
the spreading of a fluid of the body into the surrounding tissues
ink and acrylic on paper
14 x 10 inches framed [white]
The Mutualism series was exhibited at the Bromfield Gallery in November 2022. It includes both large-scale (4' h x 6' w) ocean and tropical paintings, as well as smaller (14"x11") paintings with close-ups of natural forms such as oysters, milkweed, hisbiscus flowers and more.
This is a large scale contemporary painting in turquoise and blues, with a hint of pink. An ocean wave, with a detail drawing of oysters, shows an image of potentiality and strength.
All works acrylic on paper, 40 x 26 inches
These works on paper were created while at the Tortuga International Artists Residency in Akumal, Mexico at the edge of the Mayan jungle and near the sea on the Yucatan Peninsula. They reflect a conscious awareness and connectivity with place as presence. The work was created in a time of political charge on the U.S. and function as alternate documents, turning focus instead to ancient systems and forces. These works are on view at the Spencer Presentation Gallery from October 2020 - January 2021.
image 1: detail
image 2: Entrance/Entrada, 2019
image 3: Cenote Skin, 2019
image 4: Ocean Land Layers, 2019
image 5: Wind Transcription, 2019
image 6 & 7: The Akumal Papers Exhibition install shots
image 8: studio on the rooftop at Tortuga
ink on paper, 11x8 inches
ink and acrylic on terraskin paper
mounted on birch panel
14 x 14 inches
acrylic and ink on canvas
36 h x 48 w inches
image 1: detail
image 2: full painting
This work is simultaneously a celebration of the sea, as well as a contemporary momento mori for a presence so vast and yet vulnerable in the Anthropocene epoch. The tonality is light and fluid, reminiscent of waves and mist, interplaying with floating flowers tossed above and below the surface. Embedded in the layers is the text “The End of Ice, He Wrote” in reference to a work by Dahr Jamail published at approximately the time this painting was completed. This work was first exhibited at a two-person exhibition entitled Oceans Connect Us.
New paintings 2025.
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