PENROSE LIBRARY University of Denver, Denver, Colorado       

                

                                                     Arachne permanently installed 2008   

                                              

                                                         

 

            

The title Arachne is from the Greek myth. Arachne was a mortal who created weavings more beautiful than the goddess Athena who jealously turned her into a spider.

The painting also resembles a labyrinth. Labyrinths have been used for meditation since ancient times. A labyrinth's cyclical design leads the participant into the center and then returns them back to the entrance to begin again.

Like a labyrinth a library is a place where one can still wonder and discover unexpected ideas that might lead to other ideas and new realizations.

 

                   REGIS UNIVERSITY  Labyrinth Exhibition, Denver, Colorado 1999

                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  
 

 Works on Paper

These works reflect concerns about nature and healing and a desire to unite the body, mind and heart. The vessels and the woven forms are both urns and figures, both male and female that contain both reality and spirit. The work is in acrylics on watercolor paper that is mounted on stretched canvas.  Some are scratched, scored and sanded much like an etching plate.

 
 

Woven Forms

The illusion of woven forms and patterns are used to suggest infinite time and interconnectedness. The act of painting the under-over pattern is both mathematical and meditative, much like the rhythm of sewing.

  
       
                         Labyrinth 1999 60 " x 40 "               

 

 

                                                   

  Queen 1999 52 " x 78 "

    

 

 Cephalopod 1999 40 " x 60"

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
                      Luxor 1999 52" x 78 "

                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                              Arachne 1999 108 " x 144 "

                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                            Enigma 1999 72 " x 108 "

   

 

                                                                                                               Triple Mobius 1999 45 " x 133 "

 

 

Night Vision Series

This series was done during a winter artist-in-residency in the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia. At the residency, surrounded by forest, the abstract woven designs that have been an ongoing theme in my paintings became intertwined trees, plants and vines.

                                                                                                                Milkweed Pod 2001 30 " x 42 "   

                                                                                          Labyrinth Forest 2001 48 " x 60 "

               

 Night Vision # 1 2001 21 " x 31 "

    

 Twilight Path 2001 22 " x 32 "

                                                                                                         Milk House Vine 2001 33 " x 42 "  

 

 Vessels

I discovered the vessel as a way of expressing the human form while in New Mexico, where I became entranced with the power and grace of the large black pots of the Santa Clara Pueblo. I was particularly moved by the large volumetric pots that precariously balance on a small point.

 
 

 

 Dark Pot 1998 22 " x 30 "

  

 

 Lumen 1998 28 " x 41 "

   

 

          Lopsided Pot 1998 22 " x 30 "

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figurative Work

Like many artists I have searched for other forms to express the human experience, but sometimes it is better to stop avoiding and obfuscating. The human form is timeless and personally expressive, and has a universal language of its own.

 

  

      

                          

 

Embrace 1999 29 " x 41 "

Pentimento 1999 29 " x 41 "

 

 

 She's Got Balls 1999 13" x 17 " 

 

   Lora 2000 52 " x 78 " 

 

  

   Rebecca at the Well 1999 40 " x 60 "

  

 

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