Evanston Art Center, June 2023.
Evanston Art Center, June 2023.
L to R:
Running Mama-Celadon: air dry clay, paintings, found wood.
48×36”, The Unknown, oil on canvas. private collection.
48×36”, The Clearing, oil on canvas. private collection.
Running Mama: air dry clay, paint, found wood.
Evanston Art Center, August 2024
Group Exhibition
L: Italian Walk, Via Appia. 48×36” oil on panel
R: Narcissus at the River (Self portrait in the Chicago River) 36×36” oil on panel.
Open Studio Project August 2022
L: The Unknown, 66×58” oil on canvas
R: Stay Beautiful (The Lost Place), series of nine oil paintings on paper
The title of this show, the Philosopher Walks, refers to the figure in these paintings that walks through a large imaginary landscape. These paintings employ simple forms of trees, bodies, mountains and water to hold space for the travelers through the paintings. The Philosopher is sometimes alone, sometimes with a friend, and sometimes with a child. She is also you, and you are a deep thinker, and I honor that in you.
The nine paintings on paper, titled Stay Beautiful, are done in response to an assignment I received during the pandemic from multidisciplinary artist Damon Locks. Damon works with incarcerated artists at Stateville Prison. During the pandemic, Damon participated in a project called the 51st (Free) State with artists at Stateville and gave them four assignments. He gave the same assignments to some artist friends in the area.
Locks teaches comics, so the assignments require using multiple panels and pages to tell a story. The assignments were originally assigned and created during 2020. If you would like to see the original ink drawings done during the pandemic for the four assignments, please reach out to me and I will share them with you. We can meet here at the gallery anytime.
Stay Beautiful, the nine framed paintings, is a 2022 response to Assignment #2, The Lost Place. I recommend doing these assignments, particularly assignment #1: Liberation as a conversation with oneself. You can access the assignments on the page where I catalog my original responses.
Open Studio Project, August 2022
Stay Beautiful (The Lost Place), 2022. series of nine oil paintings on paper.
Open Studio Project, August 2022.
Fleeing Again, oil on canvas 72×66”
Fleeing Again, oil on canvas 72×66”
36×36”, oil on panel.
L: Oregon Coast, 2018. 48×36” oil on panel.
R: Forest Preserve Walk, 2018. 48×36” oil on panel.
Interiors: Haywood Made
Study of a Chinese Painting, 2018. 28×20” Oil on paper.
The Unknown, 66×56”, 2022. Oil on canvas.
L: Summer Picnic, 40×32”
R: Summer Walk, 40×32”
Commission for King Art Collective
The Philosophers Confer, 2023, 57×33”.
Commission for King Art Collective.
Self Portrait as a Mountain, 2023. 60×52” OIl on canvas.
Through, as a Family, 2023. Oil on canvas 64×60”.