I Will Paint You

Some folks asked me for a portrait. I was happy to oblige. Oh Yeah, Follow Me.

About Face

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Been working on these two portraits for a while. Luckily, my muses are very patient.

Deconstructed Portraits

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I take things apart, and put them back together. Sometimes pretty things happen.

Stage 2015

Oil and acrylic on wood

Mic 2015

Oil and acrylic on wood

Puppet 2015

Oil and acrylic on wood

Camera 2015

Oil and acrylic on wood

Boot 2015

Oil and acrylic on wood

Stage 2015

Oil and acrylic on wood

A very good year

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Back in 2014, I had enough time to paint this series for a show.

Motorhead 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 25" x 24" I started this portrait with the idea of a quiet man, who was good with his hands, knew how to fix things and keep his beard straight. Someone who can handle himself in a fight, yet never had the need. The canvas was built out of a weathered piece of barn and finished piece of plywood. I rendered the portrait to visually change at the border between old and new.

Todd 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 41" x 26" Todd is my boyfriend. I get to stare at his face a lot. I probably see what most people don’t, his endless thinking about science, family and tomorrow. I catch him in a quiet moment of thought, knowing that some of it is about me.

Rebel 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 24" x 17" I consider the fifties an idealized version of America. Happy Days, Grease, James Dean, Hot Rods. There is iconic innocence to a time where the worst thing a teenager could do was race cars down abandoned streets, or drink a little too much and lose their virginity. This portrait is a tribute to the faded memory of a misspent youth.

Thug 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 17 ½" x 20 ¾" J.C. Leyendecker created these paintings in the twenties, where the edges of the image disappeared. He know what not to draw, making the things he actually drew somewhat more important. This chaotic portrait represents a man who never took no for an answer, and seldom asked any questions.

Williamsburg 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 24" x 18" I was fascinated with Williamsburg hipsters. How they were the first to adopt beards and ironic tattoos, paying an inordinate amount of rent to live in poetic squalor. This is a portrait of a man, perpetually chasing a moment in the near future where he can buy back the stuff he donated to the Salvation Army, because they are once again in style.

Speedball 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 36" x 18" A portrait of two reckless men, who are likely to swap fluids, partners, drinks and needles. Men who live with no consequence, no tomorrows, and yesterdays quickly forgotten. A cocktail of chaotic moments, blurred into one speedball of excess.

Brain & Brawn 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 18" x 24" Two portraits finding harmony on the opposite sides of the spectrum. One represents the noise inside a young man’s mind in the calm of his bedroom. The other depicts the quiet moment of a boxer in a chaos of a crowded arena.

Brain 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 18" x 24" A companion piece to the Brawn painting, this portrait depicts a young man burdened with thoughts. His synapses fire in endless succession, stitching together numbers, hunches, fears and hopes. His mind is a complex loop, struggling to find a balance to the equation where everything just fits.

Brawn 2014

Oil and acrylic on wood | 18" x 24" The original painting was landscape-oriented, but I shuffled it to reshape the composition. The segmented parts gave more focus on the bruised eye and the breathless mouth. A shattered mosaic creating mini portraits of a boxer, quietly awaiting a points decision, moments after the fight.

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I took a year off, so I had time to put together a book of my illustrations.

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