Factories with billowing smoke have always fascinated me. Symbolically, they represent our ability to alter natural landscapes while consuming raw materials, in my work, they represent manmade pollution.
Industrial landscapes provide an opportunity to edit architecture with atmosphere while creating images that look familiar but are total fantasy. Using gold and copper leaf between layers of transparent oil paint creates an optic not achievable with direct painting--my goal is to sensitize the viewer into acknowledging the good and bad side of industry --to consider how modern consumption patterns have a direct effect on the natural world.
Industrial landscapes provide an opportunity to edit architecture with atmosphere while creating images that look familiar but are total fantasy. Using gold and copper leaf between layers of transparent oil paint creates an optic not achievable with direct painting--my goal is to sensitize the viewer into acknowledging the good and bad side of industry --to consider how modern consumption patterns have a direct effect on the natural world.
Abandoned
48x42 oil on linen 1992 
Industrial Fragment
36x31 oil with gold and copper leaf 1998 
Industrial Improvisation
10x12 oil on linen 2008 
Industrial Thalo
32x30 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen 2009 
Industry
18x15 oil with gold leaf on linen 2005 
Industry
56x50 oil with gold leaf on linen 2007 
Oz
25x39 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen 1998 
Pollution Yellow Skies
22x27 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen 1991 
Prophetic Skies
44x28 oil with gold leaf on linen 1991 |
Blue Smoke
25x39 oil with gold and metal leaf on linen 1998 
Clean Air Opus I
43x49 oil with gold and cu leaf on linen 1998 
Industrial Clouds
34x38 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen 2003 Collection of the Academy of Sciences 
Industrial Night
20x26 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen 1997 
Industry
14x12 oil with gold leaf on linen 2005 
Industry
30x38 oil with gold leaf on linen 2005 
Industry
32x23 oil with gold leaf on linen 2016 Collection of George Washington University 
Like Wild Horses
28x52 oil with gold and copper leaf on linen 1992 |