A set of masterworks made in the years leading up to the Singularity
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The Frame Problem
The Frame Problem is a celebration of mastery in both paint and philosophy and represents the core ideas in my work.
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2013 - Acrylic on Canvas / Print on Paper housed in a securable box frame. Currently Available
The Singularity
The Singularity was painted after reading Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near. I realized that stylistic painting would eventually be overrun by artificial intelligence. I embarked on a mission to paint singular works of art that relied on ideas and mastery. This painting would mark the whole body of work as a symbol for a new age.
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2008 - Acrylic on Canvas Private Collection
2020 Vision
Painted in quarantine during the 2020 Covid Pandemic this painting is part of the memento mori tradition in art history. This very old process of meditating on our mortality and other forces of change give this painting the gravity of history.
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2020 - Oil on Canvas Currently Available
Three Body Solution
The Three Body Solution was painted after reading Cixin Liu’s famous trilogy The Three Body Problem. It represents abstract propositions about new painting techniques and ways of relating to the infinite plane. It is a hopeful painting reflecting creative complexity at its finest.
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2020 - Oil on Canvas Currently Available
The Subject
The process of analyzing a great work of art is the subject of this great work of art.
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2011 - Oil on Canvas Currently Available
The Mishkan
What would it mean to paint a portrait of the divine?
Well, it would be deeply personal. This was a process not unrelated to Michelangelo’s attempts to frame the personification of the creator.
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2018 - Oil on Canvas Private Collection
The Philosopher’s Stone
The philosopher’s stone was the sought-after mysterious agent that would allow the early alchemists to transform base metals into gold. It was a deep spiritual metaphor laying out the troublesome path we all must take in the pursuit of truth. Here, that metaphor stands as an awakening agent in the search for great art. The box, sealed by my initial in wax, protects the secrets of this work from those who would too casually expect total transformation.
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2015 - Oil on Canvas Currently Available
Laocoon’s Daughter
Laocoon was a Trojan priest who was suspicious of the Trojan Horse and warned his fellow citizens that it was a trap. The gods, angry at him for interference, sent serpents to kill him and his two sons. In my painting I imagine he had a daughter who looked on as her father and brothers were consumed by the irrationality of the gods. This painting features the beginning of the deconstructed backgrounds that would come to symbolize the deterioration of the picture plane. Blue and red also act as an underlying metaphor of duality.
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2018 - Oil on Canvas Private Collection
Event Horizon
A painting of a flat object appealed to me as a subversion of a hundred years of flatness. I was also attracted to the symbol of a wall, that has had religious significance for thousands of years. A place of gathering and contemplation, the Western Wall was also a window into the contemporary dilemmas that face us as our cultural attachments fracture into a new global reality. In this wall, you can see an image of ‘the other’ that compelled us to build walls, temples, and fortresses for most of human history.
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2011 - Oil on Canvas Private collection
The Priest and His Sister
One day, just as the sun was setting, a priest took his sister up to the altar to show off his priestly status, even though he had never had a true divine encounter. When she reached the top a cloud emerged, as if in response to her presence, and struck the altar with the force of the divine will. The priest was knocked back by the explosive force of creation, already unsteadied by his impiety. His sister, feeling the rush of a yet unsatisfied hunger, stood in the luxurious heat of that presence she knew belonged to her alone.
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2017 - Oil on Canvas Currently Available
My Broken Tablets
Whether or not we purposely destroy our own records, history does this through a variety of processes that make it necessary for us, occasionally, to carve down into the stone of shared understanding something simple and elegant to help us cooperate more constructively. But, usually before that time comes, some tablets are thrown down in dissatisfaction and frustration. These broken tablets are the beautiful artifacts of a passion for justice. As an artist, I found these fundamental visual forms were a starting point for the new theological geometry we would need in a world rapidly networking toward an awakening.
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2019 - Oil on Canvas Private Collection
The Knight of Resignation
This is a nightmare painting conceived in the midst of a great struggle. History is a trauma featuring slavery, patriarchy, and greed. But, there is the heroic aspect of human nature that can be terrifying when we come face to face with it. The knight of resignation has limitless potential because they have no room in their world view for shame.
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2010 - Acrylic on Canvas Currently Available
Pi in the Sky
A celebration of the infinite, and specifically the infinite power of the imagination from which we derived the concept of pi, art, and our knowledge of the scientific forces of creation.
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2019 - Oil on Canvas Currently Available
The Importance of Reporting Failures
In the Kabbalistic Tree of Life diagram, a Jewish mystical system of mysterious origin, Beauty is placed at the center of those virtues from which the universe arises. Please look up the diagram to explore more deeply the symbols I have chosen as interpretations.
The figure is taken from a news story. I knew when I saw the image of this woman, a protestor from a Supreme Court nomination, I wanted to honor her rage as a form of complex beauty and harken back to Munch’s work The Scream. The existential feelings of that time can be contrasted by our own, and made distinct through the clarity of her righteous presence.
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2019 - Oil on Canvas Currently Available
The Frontier
A reinterpretation of Matisse’s Dancers, that iconic celebratory painting, my work explores the joys of becoming a cosmic creature. The landscape is taken from Mars rover images. And throughout the whole painting the metaphor of conception reigns. Pregnancy, sex, gender, and colonization all play into the dance of reaching for the stars.
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2014 - Oil on Canvas Currently Available