In March 2022…
…in retreat from COVID, living isolated in the country I missed friends and began to think if I made paintings for them that would hold us together. I had not painted since applying to the MFA graduate program at UC Irvine 50+ years ago. When the lockdown was over, I kept painting, giving a few pieces to old friends, or sometimes painting over them. The first nine were titled Second Spring of Covid #1 - #9. There are now 18 masks, 20 portraits, and 15 animal paintings.
Second Spring of Covid #1, 12X14, 2022
Second Spring of Covid #2, 12x14, 2022
Second Spring of Covid #3, 12x14, 2022
Second Spring of Covid #4, 12x14, 2022
Second Spring of Covid #5, 12x14, 2022
Second Spring of Covid #6, 12x14, 2022
Second Spring of Covid #7, 12x14, 2022
Second Spring of Covid #8, 12x14, 2022
Second Spring of Covid #9, 12x14, 2022
Additional Masks and influences…
COVID MASK #10 Acrylic on canvas 10"x10" — 2024
CAPTION #11 Acrylic on canvas 10"x10" — 2024
COVID MASK #12 Acrylic on canvas 10"x10" — 2024
COVID MASK #13 Acrylic on canvas 10"x12" — 2024
COVID MASK #14 Acrylic on canvas 10"x10" — 2024
COVID MASK #15 Acrylic on canvas 10"x10" — 2024
COVID MASK #16 Acrylic on canvas 10"x12" — 2024
COVID MASK #17 Acrylic on canvas 10"x12" — 2024
COVID MASK #18 Acrylic on canvas 10"x12" — 2024
Portraits…
SELF Acrylic on canvas 10"x10" — 2022
BLUE SELF Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2022
BOY IN WHITE SHIRT Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2022
DISORDER Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2023
COCK-EYED Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 20924
NO DEAL Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
EDITOR WITH SNAKES Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2019
Lazarus Man Portraits…
The image at right was composed for Artforum by Christopher Kalundram Thomas using machine-learning technologies trained on work by other artists. According to Artforum, Thomas uses the same techniques to prepare PNG files that he and his assistants sometimes translate with paint onto canvas. The Portraits below were inspired by Thomas’s pieces but were worked out simply with paint on canvas.
LAZARUS MAN (for Richard Price) Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
LAZARUS MAN #2, Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
LAZARUS MAN #3 Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
LAZARUS MAN #4, Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
LAZARUS MAN #5 Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
LAZARUS MAN #6 Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
LAZARUS MAN #7 (for Claire Howorth) Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
LAZARUS MAN #8 Acrylic on canvas 12"x12" — 2024
Animals…
TK TEXT
HYENA STUDY 12x12 — 2023
HYENA# 1, 12x12 — 2024
HYENA #2, 12x12 — 2024
RHINO STUDY, 10x10 — 2024
DESERT RHINO, 12x12 — 2024
RHINO MOUNTAIN, 12x12 — 2024
RED RHINO (for Violet), 10x10 — 2024
BLUE RHINO, 10x10 — 2024
WHITE RHINO, 10x10 — 2024
BLUE BEAR BEACH, 12x1 — 2024
PREY, 10x12 — 2023
PREDATOR, 10x12 — 2023
LION STUDY, 12x14 — 2023
LION MESSIAH, 10x10 — 2022