I enjoyed an artist residency at Vermont Studio Center in December 2011. Along with about 30 other visual artists and writers, I spent entire uninterrupted days working in the studio. It was inspiring to meet so many talented artists, and to be a small part of this hive of creative energy.

drip drawings, Vermont Studio Center, December 2011

palette

studio

Here’s a painting from a new series that I’m working on. I’ve been thinking a lot about motion and perception, and the fields that emerge in my paintings often make my eyes dart.

untitled, oil and acrylic on linen, 50”h x 43”w, 2011

I’m writing essays on a handful of exhibitions that Los Angeles’ Cirrus Gallery presented in the 1970s. The gallery’s year-long Once Emerging Now Emerging series is part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time programming. The research has been truly inspiring, and is informing my own work in more ways than one.

Here’s a link to Cirrus’ on-line exhibition inviting YOU to participate: http://oncenowexhibition.com/

Cirrus Gallery, September 2011

I’m back in the studio after refreshing travels to Philadelphia and Los Angeles. The new paintings are a bit electric, zapping me with color.

I am also immersed in research and writing on Los Angeles artists in the early 1970s as part of a project organized by Cirrus Gallery in conjunction with the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA, 1945- 1980.

untitled, July 2011, 24”h x 30”w, oil and acrylic on linen

Desert City (below) went up for auction at MOCA Cleveland’s Goodbye Hello benefit on Saturday, May 21, raising funds for the museum’s new building designed by Foreign Office Architects (London). Sold!

Desert City, oil and acrylic on linen, 24”h x 30”w, 2010