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Watercolors, October 2020

All painting is conceptual

Masculine Play Environment

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Watercolors, September 2020

Ford Cortina

Christmas Scene

in flagrante delicto

this year’s new shapes

Toro

Tank

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More recent watercolors (August 2020)

Shimmering Vision (Gladys Knight and the Pips on Midnight Special)

Waiting between scenes

Lurid Decoration

Supplies

Someone’s Prom

Game Shows Touch our Lives (Price is Right)

Mood disorder (brachiosaurus)

Dancing Man with Colors

Mirror

Dream: Apparition of my Grandfather’s (Didi) spirit in a cloud of blue light.

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Recent Watercolors (titles below)

1. A hue-shifted Russian icon that I mined for colors, forgot about, and then rediscovered later on my phone when it suddenly appeared as the most beautiful thing I had ever seen

2. Ernie is Afraid of the Dark

3. Everyday Evil (dinosaurs)

4. Rainbow Bowser

5. Eldin Volcano Map, zoomed out way beyond the playable area, such that obstacles become abstract designs

6. Everyday Life (dinosaurs with color swatches)

7. Ollie and His Mother Narrative Therapy Video

8. Man Thrown from Horse

9. Arranged Marriage: Zinnias and Tolkien

10. Floral design

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Recent (2019-2020) drawings/sketches/experiments

Pinterest minerals

Gothic relief sculpture drawings (ballpoint pen)

Nosferatu drawings (a drawing class exercise)

Color mixing

Umbrellas of Cherbourg drawings

Showing Keith (student) how to paint fire so he can paint a burning house

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Later stripe paintings with looser rules and composite compositions (see previous post)

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Stripe paintings with strict rules: two layers of horizontal or vertical stripes. This series was initially inspired by an article I read about the severe graphics limitations on Atari 2600. Also, I wanted to practice mixing colors that were more subtle and tonal because my previous work was so based in the garish, saturated colors of the magic markers I used to sketch ideas.

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Spring 2016 paintings

Like the previous group but using a looser, more calligraphic line. The goal was do observational drawing, but to lose my sense of scale (my body in relation to the space I was depicting) and sometimes even a sense of what the objects were, in favor of a disorienting spatial matrix with a global feeling tone via color.

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MFA paintings Fall 2015

This series started in my sketchbook. I found I could use contour lines to set up a structure, almost like a silk resist, so I could then get lost filling in the color however I wanted.

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Stripe painting sketchbook 2

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Stripe painting sketchbook 1

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Assortment of 2014-2016 drawings

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MFA sketchbook 1: short on time and money for supplies, I started using my sketchbook as a way to bypass self-censorship and anxiety about whether an idea was important enough to spend money on, a miniature test gallery where any idea (no matter how raw, insignificant or ill-formed) could exist.

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“Baba and Didi’s House: a color study” 2015 painting and photos from my grandparents’ house. This is the place where most of my important dreams have been set.

Baba showing me how to draw mandalas and decorate them with sequins at the kitchen table, marker drawing and Baba’s house as NES dungeon design.

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Studio shots/teaching 2014-2018

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Sketches and paintings from between 2005 and 2012 when I was depressed and hardly made anything

Three main themes:

1. Trying to capture the feeling/perceptual qualities of dreams and early memories

2. Vintage science fiction (esp. “other planets”) as an avenue for fantasy not in the Tolkienesque mode

3. Sports aesthetics as a system of identity, differentiation

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Images I was able to scrap together from undergraduate work at Carnegie Mellon:

1. Images from performance art series, UFO channeling cult “33-petalled Flower of Sirius” with friends Luke Meeken and Ryan Murray

2. Several animated films (The Little Fox, Onion Ainoi, and untitled) made with Luke Meeken.

3. A performance/installation called “Sparklphys the Santagon” about Santa’s unconscious counterpart at the South Pole.

4. Painting