Painting
COVID Masks
In March 2022, in retreat from COVID, living isolated the Hudson Valley, I missed friends and began to think making paintings for them would hold us together. I had not painted since applying to the MFA graduate program at UC Irvine in the 1970s. When the lockdown was over, I kept painting, giving 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.
Second Spring of Covid #1, acrylic on canvas, 12X14 — 2022
Second Spring of Covid #4, acrylic on canvas, 12X14 — 2022
Second Spring of Covid #6, acrylic on canvas, 12X14 — 2022
Second Spring of Covid #7, acrylic on canvas, 12X14 — 2022
Second Spring of Covid #9, acrylic on canvas, 12X14 — 2022
Lazarus Man Portraits
The image at left 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 #1 (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
Portraits
Self, acrylic on canvas, 10"x10" — 2022
Disorder (for Doug Wick), acrylic on canvas, 12"x12" — 2023
Thomas and Desmond, mixed media, 14"x14" — 2026
Self, mixed media, 14"x14" — 2026
Self, mixed media, 14"x14" — 2026
Animals
Hyenas, acrylic on canvas, 12x12 — 2024
Hyena, acrylic on canvas, 12x12 — 2024
Hyenas, acrylic on canvas, 12x12 — 2024
Hyenas, acrylic on canvas, 12x12 — 2024
Bird and Snake, acrylic on canvas, 12x12 — 2024