• Untitled post 1801

    “Rap Caviar”, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 36 in. x 30 in. The piece came from cutting out and collaging images from an old Sotheby’s catalog and combining existing images to make a new story. Art can be very internal, as in artists start to make art for other artists and people who speak art,…

  • Untitled post 1787

    “God Jobs”, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas stretched over panel, 12 in. x 9 in. This painting is similar to my “Lord Have Mercy” paintings of late in that I take text, in this case, the term “God Jobs”, literary paint each letter of the words, and then use those as a skeleton to…

  • Untitled post 1771

    “Oh Baby It Ain’t No Lie”, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 12 in. x 12 in. 2023 has been a wild winter along the Southern California coast. Lotsa rain, lotsa swell. This painting was inspired by that chocolate storm surge . This piece lives in a private collection in Pasadena CA.

  • Untitled post 1737

    “Lord Have Mercy”, 2023, 17.5 in. x 8 in, oil and acrylic on canvas over panel. The phrase “Lord Have Mercy” has become my mantra and prayer for 2023 and the literal words have become the structure for this piece. I spell out the words on canvas and that becomes the structure of this piece…

  • Untitled post 1778

    I don’t have a title for this piece yet, maybe it’s “Untitled”, but I’ll come up with something cute and clever at some point. The piece is 40 in. x 30 in. of oil and acrylic paint on canvas, and was painted in 2022.. It’s a self portrait and it’s loosely based on my quiet…

  • Waves

    Waves

    For the last few years I have been making formal abstract paintings based on the amazing, strange, ribbons of energy that are, the wave.  I have lived by the ocean and surfed and observed waves for many years and I’m really taken by these strange forms.  So these paintings and drawings are derived from the…