Arrangements of color fields, lines, and layers yield a lifetime possibilities for exploration. The more you dig in, the more you find to dig into.
Started around 2003, the Palisades series is comprised of mostly larger format work (60 x 50 in) that will ultimately span 100 paintings. The collection is the 30’s now and has been an incubation project to track the evolution of my work within constraints: each work produced has a relationship to its predecessors and influences the future direction of the series.
As the Palisades series progressed, certain paintings signaled an offshoot of new series –these were areas where I had enough curiosity to devote more experimentation within a framework of ideas.
White on White came first. I love white for its qualities of seeming both transparent and opaque at the same time. It gives an illusion of both surface or distance depending on how it is used. Figuratively, it is jammed with references to light, goodness, heaven, death, clarity, cleanliness, innocence, and much more. It is the color of non-color.
The series of White on White started with white and pale hues combined with texture, brush work and layers. What emerged and captivated me was a series of art that could influence a room by creating a sense of stillness, serene wonder and subtle vibration. A large field of white becomes an object in its own right, and gives context to the rest of the colors around it in a room. White on whites are very live-able works and provide tranquility and context to the colors and stimulation around them.
Another series popped up from the Palisades series. I had been playing around with making and then purposefully erasing lines and discovered that the speed and hues of lines could make arrangements appear simultaneously static and dynamic. In other words, the arrangement of the lines in parallel could appear highly structured, but lines’ speed and vector would strongly imply that a dynamic event had created them: similar to the marks made by planes’ tires on the runway of an airport. I made a few of them, and then couldn’t stop.