Traditional techniques applied to a tongue-in-cheek vision of contemporary culture.
Drawings and Prints
- Digital prints are limited to editions of no more than 50, signed and numbered, printed on heavy archival paper. When originals are sold, the copyright remains with the artist.
The Myth of Raisins
Image Area: 14.00" x 20.00"
The Myth of Water-Saving Toilets
Image Area: 14.00" x 20.00"
The Celebration of an Innocent RaceImage Area: 14.00" x 20.00"
No Room to Swing a CatImage Area: 14.00" x 20.00"; (Prints Only; the Original Has Been Sold)
This Is a Man’s World
Image Area: 14.00" x 20.00"
It Comes Sweeping Like a Gentle Tide
Image Area: 14.00” x 20.00” (Prints Only; the Original Has Been Sold)
More Drawings
- These two drawings were done in the '80s. They came back to me from collectors after the fire. Having lost all of my work, several people felt that they should donate what they had purchased years ago. It was a very moving gesture.
- These refer to the time of the holocaust in Europe. The first was from the time Hitler invaded Poland. A mother and daughter feel despair that cannot be comprehended. The second one is actually a portrayal of a Jewish man who collaborated with the Nazis. After the war, he was confronted and begged for understanding. I'm not sure what ultimately happened to him. Both of these were done in the style of my dear friend John Groth, who died in 1989. He was an illustrator for Sports Illustrated, and he was a war correspondent with Hemingway during the Second World War.
- Totentanz is a visual reference to a Hans Holbein woodcut. Holbein's image sought to illustrate the very common fact of infant mortality in his time. The drawing below departs significantly from the original both in composition and in the emotional intent, becoming autobiographical. The death that takes the child from his family leaves the child among the living but with neither parents nor a home. The Holbein original appears on the right.
Totentanz
Image Area: 17.00" x 23.00"
See, Hear, Speak
Image Area: 18.00" x 26.00"
Dali Old (Tragic Figure)
Holding a Photo of Gala Another Example of “It All Seemed So True Last Week”)
My Dad; How My Adventure Began
(When a Bombed-Out Building Collapsed on Him)