"Wandering Without Purpose" is how Austrian and English philosopher Karl Popper characterized Zen philosophy. That line stuck in my mind and got me thinking that If you take a road with a purpose you would likely miss a lot of things happening along the way since you are focused on a destination, on a goal. But if you are wandering without a purpose you would stumble upon  a lot of unexpected and surprising events and your trip would end up being much more rewarding and meaningful than just reaching a goal you set for yourself.

Wandering Without Purpose

Chardin’s plums, Van Gogh’s shoes, Warhol’s Campbell’s soup…

In painting there is no subject matter too insignificant, too banal, or too ordinary.

This is the idea behind my series of paintings of mostly empty parking spaces. Formation of oil stains on the pavement can be as inspiring as a dramatic sunset...

Parking Spaces

"Sky/Ocean/Cargo" is a series of paintings, videos, and mixed media works by Relja Penezic.  Influenced by Romantic expressions of religious mysticism and the sublime, in this series he examines the complex relationship between our destruction and perception of the natural world. Sublime spectacles of majestic ocean-liners gliding through the mist belie the fact industrial pollutants have contaminated the surrounding air and water. With toxic waste continuing to be shipped to the most beautiful places on earth, our perception of the sites historically assumed to be wonders of the natural world will have to be revised.  Best images from the series, selected by the artist, are now available at Saatchi Online as affordable canvas prints.

Sky/Ocean/Cargo

"Extreme Loafing & Idling" series. Reference to Zen Landscape Haboku technique. Haboku means something like 'flung/broken ink'.

Extreme Loafing & Idling

For the first time images from "California Road Chronicles" by Relja Penezic are available as prints. He created a series of paintings during 1990s entitled "California Road Chronicles." All of the paintings were sold out during that decade. 
"Chronicles" are Penezic's meditation on escapism, beauty and alienation, they mostly depict vast luminous spaces populated with alienated commuters whose lonely cars are glistening in the sun.  Selected images from the series are now available at Saatchi Online as affordable canvas prints in variety of sizes.  

California Road Chronicles

Night

I'll do collage, digital composites, painting, video... whatever it takes to make an image.

Collages, Assemblages, Digital Comps, Whatever...

"Extreme Loafing & Idling" series is inspired by Zen Landscape Haboku technique. Haboku means something like 'flung/broken ink'.

Drawings

I've heard Wayne Thiebaud once say (he claimed he was quoting Picasso): "I've never seen a painting I didn't like."  I second that.  I'm old enough to have lived through several deaths of painting.  But, paintings are still around and I still have to see one I don't like. But, I do like some more than others.

Paintings I Like More

Remix

All my floating objects images.  From continents to pink ships they are all ghosts.