“Blue Sanctuary” 1990

August 1, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Intaglio on handmade paper, 22” x 30”. Artist’s collection. In 1989 & 1990 Helen Frederick kindly offered me a kind of residency at Pyramid Atlantic Center for Paper, Print and the Book. Every Thursday night my Assistant Takako Nagai & I would go to Tacoma Park to work on prints. I did this intaglio called […]

“Bather and Fish” 1988

August 1, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Graphite on paper, 40” x 30”. Unknown location. I’m not sure but this my be in The Yamanashi Museum of Art in Koch Japan. This was one of the many “scribble” drawings I did for my solo show there in 1988.

“Ah So Can U C” 1976

August 1, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Acrylic on raw canvas, 96” x 72”. Collection of Bob & Colleen Anderson Done in 1976 Ah So Can U C was a pun on the bicentennial year. It used 4 colors – red, white, blue & yellow (for the race). The image was influenced by my study of Kanji (Chinese characters used for writing […]

“Vortex Box” 1982

August 1, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

16 1/2” x 24”. Unknown location. one of my many painting boxes. The figure and the horse is a collage of an image taken from a beautiful screen in The Cleveland Museum of Art titled “Horses & Their Grooms”. The Vortex is taken from DuChamp and I use it for its intrinsic feeling of a […]

“Ritual” 1984

August 1, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Mixed media on canvas, 80” x 80”. Collection of Kenneth Minton. My mother was a CanDian and an Irish Catholic on her mom”s side. So Like it or not I was destined to be an alter boy. As it happened, I studied the Latin in Buffalo but moved to Iowa mid semester. As a […]