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Harbour, 2009    

24" X 36"

oil on canvas

Frank Woods, 2009  

16" X 16"

oil and graphite on panel

Dusk, 2009

36" X 24"

oil on canvas

Beatrix of Aragon, 2009

18" x 18" 

oil and graphite on panel

Toki, 2009

36" x 36"

oil on canvas

WAKA, 2009

15" x 17"

oil on panel

Piha, 2009

15" x 17"

oil on panel

Primo Levi, 2008

40” x 34”

oil and graphite on canvas

Blinky Palermo, 2007

22" x 22"

oil on panel

sold

Santa Gemma, 2007

36" x 36"

oil on panel

sold

Kubrick, 2008

49 ½” x 9”

oil and mixed media on board

sold

Phoenicia, 2009, 46" X 46", oil on canvas

 

These paintings are about people and events that have come into my world through reading, research and coincidence.  The paintings are part of an exploration of human drama – all of them.  Not so much good and evil, but the gray spaces in between.  To get this down in paint is to trace a trajectory through a fascinating and compulsive intoxicating need to know.  It is a way of laying it all out, where the process of making the marks is equally important than the end result. 

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BIO

Education

 

American Academy of Art Chicago
Rocky Mountain School of Art Denver, Colorado
Evanston Art Center Illinois
Figurative Art League Evanston, Illinois

Select Solo Exhibitions

 
2009

Squared Away, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles

2008  

The Periodic Table, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles

       

2007

saints & sinners  Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles

Rough River Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago

2005

Twister Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles
Body and Soul Kunstkontor Westnerwacht
Regensburg, Germany

2004

People Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago

2003

Saints and Sinners Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago

2002

Nature Kunstkontor Westnerwacht
Regensburg, Germany

2001

Shelter Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois

2000

Haven Oskar Friedl Gallery, Chicago

 

Select Group Exhibitions

2008

Fifteen Years  Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago

2007

People and Places Lawrence Asher Gallery,
Los Angeles

2006

J’Adore Galerie Friedland and Rivault, Paris France
Greatest Hits Union League Club, Chicago
Art in August Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago
Aparté II Works on Paper, Chicago
Travel Documents Koehnline Museum of Art
Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, Illinois
Third Annual Celebrity Planter Auction Chicago
Group Show Rowhouse Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

2005

Blue Period Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago
Second Annual Celebrity Planter Auction Chicago
Cephalic Symbols Judy A Saslow Gallery, Chicago
Printmakers Ball Anchor Graphics, Chicago
American Landscape Galerie Florian Walch
Munich, Germany
Fresh Start Arena 1 Gallery, Los Angeles California

 

 Selected collections

Steppenwolf Theater Chicago
Equitable Building Chicago
Deloitte Chicago
The Chicago Historical Society
Saint Louis University, Jesuit Hall
Siemens
America Direct
The United States Embassy Moscow
The United States Embassy Niamey, Niger
The United States Embassy Harare, Zimbabwe
The United States Embassy Sarajevo

Saints and Sinners, Oil on panel, 9.5" x 49.5", 2007