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.jpg
Industrial Fragment_36x31_oil with gold and copper leaf_1998.JPG
Industrial Improvization_10x12_oil on linen_2008.JPG
Industrial Thalo_32x30_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_2009.JPG
Industry (18/15)_18x15_oil with gold leaf on linen_2005.jpg
Industry (56/50)_56x50_oil with gold leaf on linen_2007.JPG
Oz_25x39_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_1998.JPG
Pollution Yellow Skies_22x27_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_1991.jpg
Prophetic Skies_44x28_oil with gold leaf on linen_1991.JPG
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Blue Smoke _25x39_oil with gold and metal leaf on linen_1998.JPG
Clean Air Opus I_43x49_oil with gold and cu leaf on linen_1998.JPG
Industrial Clouds_34x38 inches_ oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_2003_Collection of the Academy of Sciences.JPG
Industrial Night_20x26_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_1997.JPG
Industry (14/12)_14x12_oil with gold leaf on linen_2005.JPG
Industry (30/38)_30x38_oil with gold leaf on linen_2005.JPG
Industry_32x23_oil with gold leaf on linen_2016_collection of George Washington University.jpg
Like Wild Horses_28x52_oil with gold and copper leaf on linen_1992.JPG
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