A still life I painted for my class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The class was a brief introduction to traditional painting techniques (glazing, scumbling, egg tempera, etc). Excuse the photograph, the painting is already behind glass:
Oil on masonite.
The masonite panel is primed with Gamblin’s traditional gesso. Other [...]
Pencil on paper and mixed media.
A gift for my friend Sofia. I drew the picture at a figure drawing session at a studio on Ravenswood in Chicago. Regarding Seurat, see “Les Poseurs” at the Barnes Foundation.
I consider this piece, and hopefully more to come, as an extension of the photohagiography series. Basically, I’m trying to concretize certain aspects of “photographic vision” into material media, in this case painting. I’m pretty happy with this piece. The metal support is aluminum, which I bought from a small metal shop in the Irving [...]
These works are based on a photograph of a friend I took a few years ago. I used a medium format Mamiya press camera. It gives an extra-long picture compared to most medium format cameras. I suppose I was trying to create a Kafkaesque space, where things are surprisingly present or absent. [...]
These pieces are based on the same photograph of Maya as the photohagiography piece. I think it’s instructive in this case to present the photo itself, because it is really a process that starts with the image and never quite moves beyond it:
The floating shapes in the following drawings are kind of like Malevich, [...]
