Forgotten painting from the past

 Greg's Gypsie Dream, 11" x 14", oil on panel, 1996?

This gifted painting recently emerged from a friend's collection. He had described a dream to me, and I had a very strong visceral reaction to his description. I remember the piece well, but it's still a trip to see one's own work in person, after a long separation.

Dreamtoons from the 90s - Eating Dried People

Thorazine Thursdays

From a newly scanned old slide. This is small, about 5" x 7", late 1990s, and has a great title, which I can't remember.

Weird Old Painting Wednesdays II

Suspects and Victims, Name the Game, each panel about 14" x 22", 1985?

I recently found some old slides, and also fixed my scanner's transparency capability. Expect more oldies.

Weird Old Painting Wednesdays

"Protagonist", 36" x 48", 1987?

I remember challenging myself to make a cheesy romance-novel type painting. This was not done joyfully. I was punishing art, and myself. The foreground figure shows the loose paint method I used for much of the 1980s. The rest shows me struggling to paint. No idea how it survived long enough to be photographed, but I'm happy to have the image. It really cracks me up.

Some oldies

Some old pieces of mine which I retrieved from Ed Sanders' collection:

Larkspur, Raggle Petunia, & Katarinas, 5" x 7", acrylic on wood, 1997

Meditation Injury, 8" x 8", oil on wood, 1995

(I was surprised by how tiny this one was, compared to my memory of it)

Bluto's Reflection, 8" x 6", oil on wood, 1993

1985 Triumvirate

Prophetic Axewoman, 36" x 48", oil on board, 1985

Ballet of the Stump Women, 18" x 48", oil on board, 1985

Plateaus of Decadence, 36" x 48", oil on board, 1985

Flashback Friday No. 7

Recluse

Oil on wood, 24" x 26"

1993

Flashback Fridays 6

6 AM Drug Test

about 36" x 48"

early 1990s

Flashback Friday 5

9.5"x8.75"

9.5"x8.75"

I believe these are from 2000. I hadn't been painting and just wanted a straightforward representational project. In real life, these are more pedestrian than they appear here; they really do not have any quiet magic at all. I would love to explore this particular visual universe further. I'd love to really focus on slow-grinding Morandi-type still lifes, but I'd also love to do fast and facile wet-into-wet again, yet I want to toy with awkward formalities. I want to paint plein-aire landscapes, I want to make multi-layered dioramas in those cylindrical CD holders (the first will show scenes from Nick Cave's "the Murder Ballads")...

Update: I've corrected to their actual size, though they are cropped here.

Flashback Friday 4

Everything I Own, ball point ink on paper, 66" x 255", 1982

Here is another college-era project, performed for my sophomore drawing class. Personal Inventory should be an art classification.

Flashback Friday -Kiln Nostalgia

I sold my kiln on ebay today, and so here's today's flashback. Above is my 2002 Christmas presents load, which my notes show was glaze fired on 12-23. Wait another 7 hours for cool-down, and lift the lid. That was one beautiful site.

Once upon a time, I loved my home and planned many projects for it. These tiles were intended as focal points for the black and white mosaic I planned over my kitchen counter.

They range from 4"-8" and were to be surrounded by smaller white and black tiles, all hand shaped.

I hate to let go of ideas, but they can become an albatross, and I want to move forward with painting. The auction went well, great bidding war at the very end :-)

Flash(way)back Fridays

"Olga's World"

4.5' x 12'

1983

'Olga' developed as this sort of self-deprecated alter-ego during my junior year at Herron School of Art, and she pretty much propelled my first group of large scale paintings. One professor described her as a Middle Ages scrub woman. Oh, and I also was into Alex Katz, and who can resist an opportunity to riff on Wyatt?

Correction: Wyeth.

Flashback Fridays

House of Zod

Land of Poetry and Harmless Snakes

Wading Pond

Victorian Grey

Spelunker

Some work from the 1990s. All smallish - 12"-24". Most of my artistic output, from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, has been rooted in metaphysical/metaphorical imagery, and I do plan on continuing with this, along with my explorations in formal abstraction.