all that we have had and all that we will lose
all that we have had and all that we will lose
2 Degrees C
2 degrees C
Wet Paint
wet paint
Keeping Score
keeping score
Paintings 2015-2017
paintings 2015-2017
Recent Waterworks (2017)
recent waterworks 2017
Basketball
basketball
Hockey
hockey
The Long Summer
long summer
Paintings 2013-2014
paintings 2013-2014
Personal Landscapes
personal landscapes
Collages
collages
The Black & White Ball
ball
Clipped
clipped
A New Year in Paint
paint
Skating on Thin Ice
skating
Golf
golf
Austria
austria
A New Decade in Paint
paint
Dancing Through Life
dancing
Figures
figures
Whiskeytown
whiskeytown
No Naked Nudes
no naked nudes
Convictions
convictions
Body Language
new york
Tribute to Rotonde
brussels
A New Century in Paint
paintings1
Freshly Dug Up: 1970's
early work
In London: Diverse RCA
london
New in Berlin
berlin
In San Francisco: Boxers
Springer-Croke
In New York: Surfers
Surfers
From Cleveland: "Drawn In"
Cleveland
"The Babies V"
Babies 5
From Berlin: "Medusa"
Medusa
 

Convictions

Salome Judith Cain and Abel Abraham
Forgetting to Remember Kaddish Prometheus In The Wake
In The Ring
Pieta I Pieta II Pieta III
Departure Induction Tour Homecoming

Holy War

Whether an ancient, medieval, or “modern” war, the crusade for a cause, a plot of land or a holy mission demands a price intolerable in human cost. The soldiers spread across the field of “In the Wake” are uniformed in a camouflage of slashing colored strokes—dissonant, clashing green/yellow against violet as nauseating as the scene through which they pass. The violence of rape and murder leaves a pile of women’s bodies in the wake of war. With the posture of invincibility the warriors form a wall across the picture plane.

How war itself transforms young men into soldiers and then into warriors is the exploration of the series of mixed media drawings on unstretched canvas. From the young man’s “Departure” from home and parents, through the process of “Induction,” enduring the “Tour,” and returning in a wheelchair or body-bag for the “Homecoming,” the sweeping suite forms an arc of deforming change.

There is nothing holy or sacred when men take up arms of destruction; indeed, they are themselves also altered by their deeds.