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On His Shoulders Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 48 W x 60 H x 1.5 D in
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This is an unframed oil painting on canvas.It is wired and ready to hang. The "script" on the canvas was made with oil sticks. The work may have been influenced by Deibenkorn , in terms of blocks of color. There is an intentional tension in the painting between the large flat block of color that suggest landscape and the somewhat thin disappearing "roots" at the bottom of the painting. That tension is meant to suggest ambiguity. The script references the work of Twombly. The painting is based on a memory of being lost in cornfields or wheat on a sunny day with my father. I was so small that I could not see over the growth. My father carried me on his shoulders until we could find our way to the road. Of course it seemed like hours but was probably a few minutes as the sun poured down and the light was glistening. I hope that the viewer feels a sense of joy and hope and feels that sense of the warm enveloping sun and safety. I hope that the viewer may pause to remember something in their father daughter relationship that evokes positive memory. I work abstractly. I wanted to create a sense of place, atmosphere and emotions. In working in large simplified forms and blocks of color that might seem like a child's drawing. I used colors that would evoke heat, pleasure and joy. The final part of the painting is the "writing". It was used in part for compositional reasons, but in truth was an intuitive gesture that seemed right. I love the "script". It creates an ambiguity in what might be experienced as a more narrative painting, happy painting. This is part of a larger oil painting series all based on childhood memory and the nature of memory.
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Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:48 W x 60 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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I was born in Chicago Illinois, USA and mostly was raised in New Jersey. I went to college and graduate school in Massachusetts and now live in New Jersey. My art studio is in an industrial space once a factory owned by one of the Johnson Brothers. I am an abstract artist specializing in contemporary oil painting and collage. My work is in exhibitions through out the globe. It has been seen through out the United States, Italy, Germany, London, UK, Israel, Mexico,and in Athens Greece. It is in corporate and private collections in the Ststes, Germany, London, UK, Milan and Matera Italy, Mexico, and Athens Greece. I have been a visual art fellow and resident at The School of Visual Arts,Manhattan, NY, with The Bau Foundation in Italy, and at EdgewoodFarms at CastleHill in Truro, Mass. and World of Co Residency in Bulgaria. I received a grant from the Jewish Federation for a residency/artist exchange in Arad, Israel. I was in a master class with noted artist Joan Snyder. I recently had a solo museum exhibition at The Wilson Museum in Vermont and this fall 2024 at Kean University.My work has shown in OTAContemporary, Santa Fe, NM 73See Gallery, Montclair,NJ, Village West Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ, St Peters University, Jersey City, NJ, The College of Morris,Randolph, NJ, The College of St. Elizabeth, Morris, NJ, William James College, Newton, Mass, The Heinrich Hiene Haus, Luneburg, Germany, the Copelouzos Family Museum, Athens, Greece, The Arco ( Architectual School ) in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Matera, Italy, among other venues. I am represented by the Carter Burden Gallery in Manhattan, NYC. My paintings have been been in museums exhibitions including the Jersey City Museum, Ellerslie Museum, Montclair Museum of Art, The Montclair Art Museum, the Monmouth Museum of Art in New Jersey, and The Hammond Art Museum in North Salem, NY. I won the Curtis Hilliard Memorial Award and am a three time selection of the Pro Arts Curators Choice Award in Jersey City. I had a commission from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to create a painting in a violin. I am am in private and public collections in the USA, Germany, London, Greece and Italy. Public collections include the Copolouzos Museum in Athens and Atlantic Heath Commission in New Jersey. My work is on loan to the office of the Mayor in Westfield, NJ.
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