A very short story.

 

drypoint etching on Rives BFK paper. 3" x 3"

Feral Town

For the past two years, I've taken up drawing on post-its notes.



The original idea was to do something creative with little passing thoughts I had, in an immediate context, with the time I had available. I would scribble them out between teaching obligations, for the most part.



The whole thing hinged upon working on something that wouldn't turn into work. I've so far thought up and drawn over 400 of them.



So much for not turning it into work.







So I began making drypoint etchings of the series. I'd previously tried doing little gouache paintings of them, but they just took on an air of seriousness that worked against them. In paint they became meaner, and their cynicism turned into outright pessimism.

But the drypoints, for some reason, seem to work, and seem to retain a sense of directness without being too heavy. This is important in my little suburb of animalian dysfunction; I'd like it to be clear that I'm not wishing any of these little guys any ill will. I'm glad Maureen and Tom can work things out in their own hamster way.

A few have been making their way into the Monday edition of The Atticus Review, an online literary magazine edited by author and photographer David Olimpio.

You can also see most of the whole ongoing shebang on Instagram.

More to come... and maybe a shopping option.

"Swimmers" Exhibition Opens April 6!

The Maplewood, NJ, exhibition will feature fifteen paintings from the ongoing series. And probably some cheese cubes and wine.

Swimmer (Oxygen), 2017. Oil on Canvas.

Swimmer (Tremor), 2017. Oil on Canvas.

Swimmer (Orange disintegrate), 2017. Oil on Canvas.

Inner Circle

Michael Flynn as 

The Angriest Bird.

Steve Bannon as 

The Thing That Needs To Crawl Back In Its Hole.

Ben Carson as

The Sleeping Leviathan

Kellyanne Conway as

The Plumed Dragon

Chris Christie as

The One That Got Away

Rudolph Guiliani as 

The Thing That Ought To 

Fly Away By Now

Jeff Sessions as

The White Goblin 

Scott Pruitt as

The Toxic Cloud

Tom Price as

The Fallopian Moose

Newt Gingrich as

The Spiteful Sprite

Elaine Chao and Mitch McConnell as

What You Find When 

You Drain The Swamp

and Donald Trump as

The Phoenix That Launched

A Thousand Tweets

New paintings in the Swimmer series.

Swimmer (Plunge)

Oil on canvas, 8x10 inches. 2016. 

 

Swimmer (Split)

Oil on canvas, 16x20 inches. 2016.

Swimmer (Tilt)

Oil on canvas, 18x24 inches. 2016.

Swimmers

   

Swimmer (Stripes), 2015. Oil on Canvas, 20 x 16 inches. 

 

Swimmer (Spectre), 2015. Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 inches. 

 Swimmer (Cyan), 2015. Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 inches. 

                                                          

 Swimmer (Grid), 2015. Gouache on Paper, 8 x 10 inches. 

 

 Swimmer (Leviathin), 2015. Gouache on Paper, 7 x10 inches.

 

Swimmer (Icharus), 2015. Gouache on Paper, 7 x10 inches.

Swimmer (Cloud Chaser), 2015. Gouache on Paper, 7 x 9 inches.

Some new paintings

 

Swimmer 1, 2015. Oil on canvas, 18x24.

 

Swimmer 3 (granulation) 2015. Oil and wax on drafting film, 14x17. 

 

Swimmer 4 (teal), 2015. Oil on canvas, 16x20. 

 

Swimmer 5 (blue), 2015. Oil on canvas, 16x20. 

 

Swimmer 6 (night), 2015. Oil and wax on canvas, 18x24. 

Recent Paintings

Galway Girl, 2014. Oil on canvas, 11" x 14"

 

 Mohor, 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"

 

Causeway, 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"

 The Crooked Sisters, 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"

Untitled (Ireland), 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"

 

Untitled 2 (Ireland), 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"

The Ancestral Tourist, 2014. Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"