Tag: Painting

“Cage With Newspaper” 1990

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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 […]

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“Cage/Box II” 1998

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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 […]

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“Cage” 1992

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

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“Queequeg and Moby” 1999

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Oil & gilding on byõbu, 14” x 36”. Collection of Sarah Cohen. i was always fascinated by Queequeg. He filled the bill for what men once called a noble savage.  With his tattooed face he seemed more like Moby than like his fellow sailors.  He was really much more part of nature and more kin […]

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“Memories Byõbu” 1991

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Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. Bernice Steinbaum collection. My friend Marty Amt rescued these wooden cores for this byobu from the dumpster behind the  Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery.  The were sugi  (Japanese cedar)  at least 200 years old and they sat inside a beautiful black lacquer box.  The cores are the skeleton of […]

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“Ah So Can U C” 1976

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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 […]

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