abstrakt acryl

Trophies examines man’s fixation with defeating and/or overpowering nature in order to achieve a sense of strength. Using objects that are associated with masculinity, my aim is to produce an alternative to a common and naturally destructive form of trophy-ism; the taxidermy head. By working with elements that still bare the significance of what it means to “be a man”, I can shift the elemental focus from destruction, towards empowerment gained through construction, strategy, and creation.

"Someone on the train", 2015, acrylic and papier collé on fiberboard, 12 x 12 inches (30 x 30 cm).

Evanescent reflections overlay a rushing landscape to create half-glimpsed images and a sense of open, ambigious space. Paint, paper, and plaster are layered and then selectively scraped away, allowing a succession of transparent rhythms of color and form to build upon one another.

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"The Upper Pasture", 2015, acrylic on canvas (gallery wrap), 20 inches wide by 16 tall (50 x 40 cm).

A lone figure walks a familiar path up toward sunlit fields and woods. Overhead hot, turbulent clouds build toward sunset, and along the path the late-summer weeds and grass turn yellow in the hazy afternoon light.

This painting is built on recollections of my childhood in rural Alabama during the mid-1960s.

The painting is on triple-primed cotton duck canvas, stretched on standard 3/4" depth stretcher bars, framed in a wood “floater” frame, ready to hang; it is signed and dated both front and back, with title on back.

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“Sleepy Hollow”

“The things that one most tries to hide are often the things most easily seen”

Washington Irving, 1790