“Large Coffin/Cage” 1992

August 8, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil on canvas, 84” x 96”. Artist’s collection. The chicken coups were inspired by the famous photo wreckage of a bus in El Salvador The bus carrying a group of nuns returning from the city after shopping for food. They had all been raped and murdered. Later I got the idea of painting a cage […]

“Kimono” 1976

August 8, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Magna on raw canvas, 84” x 72”. Stolen – unknown location. I copied the crane pattern from a Noh Hunting kimono that was exhibited at the Smithsonian. It was in the basement at West Virginia University when thieves broke in and cut it off the stretchers. Never seen since 1977.

“On The Day Of The Arrows” 1984

August 8, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oil and mixed media, 72” x 44”. Artist’s collection.

“Green Cage Red Shadow” 1998

August 4, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oil on canvas, 36” x 48”. Unknown location.

Wash.,DC, Kings Ct. Studio 1990

August 4, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

My friend Giorgio Furioso & I started renovating this studio in about 1987 and finished about 1989. Gary Honig was our business guy on the project. The building was previously a lumber yard and a printing company. Gary had to get about 10 huge presses removed from the building – each being the size of […]

“Cage With Newspaper” 1990

August 4, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil on canvas, 72” x 84”. Collection of Gail & John Enns I was asked to do a couple of paintings for a show curated by Noriko Gambling at The Long Beach Museum of Art. I had already done a very large chicken cage and while working on it I realized how much it […]

“Cage/Box II” 1998

August 3, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil on wood box, 18” x 24”. Unknown location. These painted boxes (I did between 5 & 10) were done on paintboxes discarded by my students at The Catholic University of America. The sizes varied a bit but were generally about 18 inches tall. Some are cut like a woodblock print and then painted. The […]