Portrait of a Woman with Periodic Table of Elements Painting

Oil, Charcoal & Acrylic on gold-leafed canvas. In many of my abstract figurative works, I will obscure the face or portions of the figure and leave things just beyond reach to draw the viewer in closer as they attempt to understand what is missing and fill in the empty spaces on their own. I often alternate between painting imagined self-portraits and portraits of people I have known. I also feel that painting the figure more loosely allows for greater exploration, not only by myself, but also on the part of the viewer. There are questions to be answered and the uncomfortable space creates an underlying tension, sometimes emotional and human, and that overall tension is really what I am seeking to achieve. Most of us experience that tension when we are with someone who fascinates us. I want my paintings to fascinate and create emotion. Yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it is also something that we learn. People had to learn how to find Van Gogh’s paintings beautiful at one time because they were so vastly different from the established perspective. But we do not question it now. I think that by depicting my own altered version of the human form as I see it, I can lend my own voice. I suppose that by creating a work which is informed by my own personal narrative and which is also intended to be viewed and appreciated, I am in some way creating work that has my own story and a real life behind it. My paintings are often marked by planes of color and texture, from shiny geometric shapes to soft skin to the imagined chemical make-up of the the subject matter. Themes which I return to again and again in my figure painting are the idea of the body, but within an imagined space that invites abstract planes of texture and color as well as the idea of the things surrounding us. Emotions. Thoughts. Experiences.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:48 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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