Couch 2! I haven’t posted Couch 1 yet. It sold at a recent show- it’s really good. It followed by usual color impulses of heavy blue for shadow, purple for deep black, and yellow for bright light. This series has been really good for me to get deeper into color and think through that lens….
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The Messy Dresser
These paintings are going slow. As many of you know, I lost my job recently because the company couldn’t make payroll. While it would be nice to have been making as many paintings as possible, I’ve been instead spending my 9-5 looking for jobs and being boiled alive in my own anxiety. I have made…
New Direction: In my House
I’ve been working on a new direction. I want to make increasingly maximilist versions of objects in my house that have significance, energy, or are expressive of our life here. I often think people pigeon hole middle age with children as a sort of greyed out, boring series of unchosen events. The reality could not…
Medieval Pittsburgh/Reflections
Reflections on Medieval Pittsburgh I was going to wait until I had finished a new painting before posting, but didn’t want to lose my thoughts. I think more people got to see my work because of this show than any of my previous shows. I think hundreds of people came through- maybe 500 people- which…
Scripture, Illuminated with Pittsburgh
Psalm 1: 1-3 Making this piece there was several things I wanted to do: First, I wanted to honor and meditate on this piece of scripture. Second, I wanted to stylistically circle back to a chunkier, darker style as part of this medieval show. Last, I wanted to make sure I captured a range of…
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