Three Tanks – 20×24″, oil – recently exhibited in the San Diego Art Institute’s 52 International Show and received the Hoffman Trust Award.
Reconstruction Oil on Paper – 13 x 19″, 2013
This painting is of the San Diego Farmer’s market building that is being converted into a Walmart. After community protests, Walmart apparently agreed to keep this iconic San Diego building intact with the grain tower and other elements, while incorporating it into a Walmart. This information has no real relevance to the actual painting which is about reconstructing the shapes, colors and light into a painting that would capture the sense of being there.
I’m planning a complete redesign of my website very soon and may decide to remove this blog. I haven’t the time to update it regularly, spending more time on my other blog, Painting Perceptions.com. I will give it careful consideration however and may still decide to keep it so I can quickly post recent work and information that might be of interest to any viewers.
In other news, I recently purchased my ticket to return to Italy for six weeks, back to the JSS Summer program in Civita Castellana. I’m very excited to be returning and will post more information as I can.