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
 

Catalogue of Paintings

"Broken Vows"
Morris Graves Museum
April 1 - May 1, 2000


Broken Vows
A vow carries the weight of personal accountability. The breaking of a vow may shatter, destroy, indeed alter a life, the very nature of one's existence. It is the solemnity of the vow and the weight of responsibility which draws the image to rest on the moment of an altered state. The breaking of a vow brings a man beyond a point of no return, unable to undo or escape the consequences of his actions.
These paintings examine deception. The consequences following transgression are rendered in layered, intersecting planes. Figures shift through time and space as perspectives open up to reveal the half-hidden relationships. From dark recesses of the canvas, the echoes of characters reassert themselves. Mouths emerge from behind, hands grasp through space. Colors pattern the surface of the pictures keeping movement and relationships of figures in constant tension and unrest.
The anonymity of the traveler allows the enactment of another persona. With that new identity, obligations are shrugged off, hidden from view like a wedding band removed. The ship drifts between worlds where rules of the land fail to apply. Likewise the philanderer can walk into a hotel and attain a degree of anonymity which separates from the self. Rules are suspended, obligations evaporate.
The consequences, immediate or removed, surface in the tension created by the superimposed or underlying image. Interwoven or overlaid, the paintings make visible the damage and pain. The dark refuge from responsibility is spotlighted to show the deceived, the betrayed, the abandoned.

Room Service Lifeguard
Station Loss
Vacation Seven Seas Divorce Departure
A Room Fortune Home Fires

1. Room Service oil on canvas 60" x 72" 1991
2. Lifeguard Station oil on canvas  72" x 60"  1988
3. Loss oil on canvas 60" x 72" 1994
4. Vacation oil on canvas 60" x 72" 1989
5. Seven Seas oil on canvas 60" x 72" 1991
6. Divorce oil on canvas 72" x 60" 1992
7. Departure oil on canvas 72" x 48" 1998
8. A Room oil on canvas 60" x 72" 1991
9. Fortune oil on canvas 60" x 72" 1997
10. Home Fires oil on canvas 60" x 72" 1991