Reflections on Water #1 is a seductive exploration of perceptual resonance achieved through the interplay of intuitive gesture and technological precision. Executed on rough watercolor paper, the surface’s tooth resists smooth application, producing a grainy, expressive texture. Using templates to compose the airbrush overlays, and combining this with ink linework, emphasized the tension between fluidity and structure. The painting’s vibrancy emerges from the uneven absorption of pigment, which creates shimmering effects akin to water’s reflective qualities. Thus, overall, the work embodies a dialogue between material resistance and artistic control, situating it within late 20th-century explorations of perception and surface.
Gradations and Imperfections is a circular panel animated by a dynamic checkerboard pattern, rendered in a palette of rich blue and creamy beige squares. Perceptually, it’s diagonal grid evokes a sense of movement and playful disruption. Each square and stripe varies subtly in hue and texture, inviting close examination of the painting’s hand-painted qualities. Continue reading “Gradations and Imperfections (2025)”
Adding Dynamic to a Black-and-White Grid transforms a basic pattern parallel lines into a vibrant exploration of movement and contrast, using only the fundamental opposites of black and white to make its statement. The contrast in this monochromatic work does not produce a rigid image because the bold introduction of diagonal and intersecting lines are used to add energy to what began as an very static form. Thus, the composition as a whole balances the uniformity and formal qualities of a simple pattern with the disruption, evolution, and transformation within human life. Continue reading “Adding Dynamic to Black-and-White Lines (2025)”
The intention of this card was to use the fold as a line in presenting a formal and irregular composition. In this sense, it conveys something that is stochastic, which is defined as the property of being well-described by a random probability distribution. Continue reading “Stochastic Checkerboard (Greeting Card) (2017)”
This blue, barren painting emphasizes atmosphere rather than vegetation or humanity. Dense, rather than airy, the suggestion of a thick atmospheric envelope evokes humidity and haze. These kinds of visual conditions are increasingly associated with climate change and warming air systems.
This composition, created with an airbrush and templates, operates in a liminal zone between abstraction and suggestion. This zone, combined with Untitled 33940‘s colors, evokes cosmic, cellular, or even embryonic origins without anchoring the viewer to any single narrative. In other words, ambiguity is central to this small work’s power, which is built around and reinforced by a constellation of softly luminous spheres, some sharply outlined, others dissolving into mist. Continue reading “Untitled 33940 (2023)”
This painting is not concerned with representing an object but is instead staging how vision itself negotiates space. Thus, the viewer is invited to experience shifting depth cues (is the center receding or projecting?); transparency versus opacity; and the instability of alignment and orientation.
The geometric syntax here conveys a perceptual ambiguity through geometric division and tonal modulation. The off-center points within each square differ, creating a dynamic tension between symmetry and depth. Initially, some people see the lines going inward; others perceive an outward projection.
