11:14 AM: i'll be on a break & won't be able to get back to painting until next monday.
in the mean time, i've been surveying recent work and, because i'm preparing a dossier for a friend who offered to show my work to several galleries, reviewing past work.
upper left: before leaving for europe, i lived on elizabeth st. in nyc, attended the school of visual arts and made paintings heavily influenced by the tail end of the abstract expressionist movement. here's a detail of one.
upper right: if i go back to 1978, paintings like this one appear, executed during my 15 years in greece.
lower left: when i returned to the states in 1979, i lived for a year in santa monica and spent time visiting with david hockney. when i house sat for him, i made this transitional painting of myself standing on his deck, in egg tempera on board.
lower right: the plein air paintings i've been making ever since we moved to crestone in the early '90's, seem to be bringing me full circle, back to where i started in nyc.
bottom: in my current late summer series, there is an integration of all the points along my path, with the common denominator being my love for the painterly
