WAVE Painting

My work often involves intense observation of nature that I interpret in relation to cultural phenomena, social trauma or history, in part, owing to the WWII bombing of Pearl Harbor, my birthday legacy. I form these experiments into large-scale paintings, drawings, assemblage, sculpture and mixed media works. In response to recent cataclysmic storms and natural disasters, my most recent paintings are made outdoors, directly impacted by rain, hail and wind, and respond to the tension between the force of nature and contemporary interpretation of ancient Creation text. Also in progress is a series of 7 foot drawings of flowers after they have bloomed, drawn on rough, plant fiber paper, as well as several large scale installation works. WINGS of WITNESS, UNFINISHED FLIGHT: My most ambitious undertaking, is a series of monumental assemblage installations constructed with the assistance of sixty thousand participants, through artist residencies I conduct at museums and educational institutions. With teams of assistants, I’ve configured the components made in my workshops into ten massive, site-specific wing-like expanses to date. This body of work uses the shape of wings to symbolically elevate lost life resulting from genocide. Unfinished Flight, the most recent of the series, is currently installed the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill NY, through December 2014.