Current Series:
Moving Towards Abstraction:
As the COVID 19 Quarantine hit and influenced by my late mother’s blindness during the last years of her life, I was working to integrate Braille dot letters as visual and tactile imagery into my paintings. I used perforated rubber bath mats as a stencil to ensure standardization in spacing the dots, or a combination of dots comprising a particular Braille letter. But heeding warnings that COVID 19 could spread through touch, I abandoned the idea. Instead I shifted my attention to focusing on "dots" as a visual language for abstract painted configurations, first by integrating the bathmats themselves as assemblage in my paintings, and more recently by experimenting with other kinds of dot stencils such as peg board.
2023. Acrylic on canvas. 66 x 42 inches. All rights reserved.
2023. Acrylic and Electrical Wire on Canvas. 56 x 32 inches. All rights reserved.
2023. Acrylic and assemblage on canvas. 32 x 56 inches. All rights reserved.
2022. Acrylic on canvas. 42 x 56 inches. All rights reserved.
2022. Acrylic on canvas. 56 x 42 inches. All rights reserved.
2022. Acrylic on canvas. 42 x 66 inches. All rights reserved.
2022. Acrylic on canvas. 42 x 66 inches. All rights reserved.
2022. Acrylic on canvas. 42 x 66 inches. All rights reserved.
Example of perforated rubber bathmat (14 x 27 inches) used initially as a stencil to facilitate large Braille letters and as a mechanism to create dot patterns in my paintings.
2019. Acrylic on canvas. 12 x 16 inches. All rights reserved
2019. Acrylic on canvas. 12 x 16 inches. All rights reserved.
2019. Acrylic on canvas. 56 x 42 inches. All rights reserved.
2019. Acrylic on canvas. 56 x 42 inches. All rights reserved.
2019. Acrylic, glue, and assemblage on canvas. 42 x 56 inches. All rights reserved.
2019. Acrylic, glue, and assemblage on canvas. 42 x 56 inches. All rights reserved.
2019. Acrylic and Assemblage on canvas. 56 x 42 inches. This work is held in the collection of The University of Arkansas, Fort Smith All rights reserved
2020. Acrylic and oil on plywood. 48 x 40 inches. All rights reserved.
2020. Acrylic and oil on plywood. 48 x 40 inches. All rights reserved.
2020. Acrylic and oil and tape on plywood. 40 x 48 inches. All rights reserved
2020. Acrylic and collage on canvas. 56 x 42 inches. All rights reserved.
2021. Acrylic and oil paint/stains on wood panel. 42 x 51 inches. All rights reserved
2021. Acrylic and oil paint/stains on wood panel. 42 x 51 inches. All rights reserved
2021. Acrylic and oil on wood panel. 39 x 33 inches. All rights reserved
2021. Assemblage, oil based spray paint and acrylic on canvas. 48 x 40 x 1 inches. All rights reserved