Alright- been hard at work but I haven't taken the time to update my blog in quite awhile. I will endeavor to correct this issue!

Here's Threshold, the latest in my series treating perceptual painting's capacity to archive experience. These works have taken vessels of various sorts as their subject, literal and figurative containers for the time I spend with each object as I paint it from life. Oil on canvas, 40" x 32".

Here's an earlier state. You can see my model, a birdhouse, perched in the upper left.

                                                     Here are some preliminary sketches.

Here's a view of a work in progress, Perceptual Log, 38" x 23". I've put a bit of time and energy into this one... Almost there!

Goin' ham. Just finished this, the latest in my series treating the perceptual painting process. Taking vessels of various sorts as their subject, these paintings represent literal and figurative containers of my time and energy. Quite a bit of an investment in this one... Been working on it for the last couple months. Thought it might go quicker if I did a preliminary drawing to work some stuff out... Didn't quite work out that way. Here are some earlier states:

My brother Nathaniel and I got some work in a show called "Spring Exposition" held jointly by Black Hole Gallery and Asymmetrick Arts in Rockland, Me. That's his painting,"Big Baby", hanging to the right of mine. A great show. Nice to get it out there, too!

And here's the finished work- Vanitas II,  28" x 36".  More on this work and the series to which it belongs in previous posts below.

Started work on another piece in my series treating containers as literal and figurative vessels into which my time and attention are poured. This is the second to-go box. Other than their nice clean lines, I like how these containers speak to notions of transience and ephemera- two elements tightly bound up in the perceptual painting experience. The model is perched in the upper left.

And here, finally, is the finished painting- "Lightning Rod: Distillation II". This is the latest in my series of works dealing with the perceptual painting process and the second taking a honey bear as its subject. There's an element of camouflage or displacement in honey bears that speaks to the visual bait-and-switch of representational painting. Honey, like oil paint, is a luminous preservative. After spending two months of my life abiding with this object I can state with certainty that  real bodily experience has been distilled into this work.  More on this series and on perceptual painting in previous posts below-