Round #58 Painting

This Painting is inspired by a collage I made during the Summer 0f 20017. The collage began With a mixed media detail of a larger Collage that deals with my experience working in retail for 50 years and our continuing obsession with luxury excess. The Overload of information that surrounds this obsession is Gigantic and is targeted at all of us endlessly. By doing these paintings I try to achieve a Downloading of that information. I speak of this series of my oil paintings as "Process Abstraction". The many steps in my process from beginning to completion I believes to a form of abstraction that is not only from observation but repetition (working from the paintings and drawings that came before the piece you're viewing. My work is ready to be hung your home or office.