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My new work showing at this group exhibition

November 4 – 26, 2023

Reception for the artists: Friday, Nov. 4th, 5-8pm

at the Phillips Gallery Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church
(next to the upper parking lot)
3459 Manchester Ave, Cardiff, CA
(The Phillips Gallery was created by the Church as a service project to promote local artists in the community.)

See https://praxismas.com/ for details and images of the work
Showing my most recent paintings along with the following artists

• Jeffrey Carr
• Grace Colletta
• Michael Colletta 
• Michael Sitaras

I am honored to announce that my painting, Imperial Valley Boogie Woogie, was chosen to be a part of the Blue Mountain Gallery Annual Juried show with Elisa Jensen Juror. This is what I had to say about this painting…
Imperial Valley Boogie Woogie, connects the spirit of Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie to Google Earth satellite imagery of Southern California’s Imperial Valley in the Colorado Desert. Here we see the anomalous geometric patterns of agriculture and irrigation at odds with the desert reclamation.

This painting was part of a recent show, a splash quite unnoticed, Salton Sea Paintings, which visually explored the mystery and beauty of California’s largest lake, the Salton (accidental) Sea. Since the early 1900’s agricultural runoff from farms in the Imperial Valley has prevented the Salton Sea from evaporating. However, In January of 2018 due to political decisions, this inflow ceased and will eventually cause the lake to shrink dramatically, seriously threatening the environment for large portions of Southern California.

I started working on drawings for this painting after the elections and began painting after Trump’s inauguration. This was a way to express feelings about this disaster of the impending dismantling of our environmental safeguards and actions to prevent climate change.

I have two paintings in the Oceanside Museum of Art’s group show “ARTIST ALLIANCE AT THE MUSEUM 2017“ up until August 27, 2017.

I’m having a solo show San Carlos Branch Library Show October 5 – November 28 2015 from October 5 – November 28 2015 at our local library community room, approximately 25 paintings, primarily of suburban landscapes of my neighborhood and the nearby mountain park, Mission Trails. There will be an Artist reception on Saturday October 17th 12:30-2:30 pm.

I will also be participating in a group show Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel (Near Julian – 30352 Highway 78 at Highway 79 — For information call 760.765.1676) Also participating in this group show is Jane Culp

I’ve pleased to announce that I will be having a solo show of 30 landscapes (urban, rural and in-between) oil paintings of San Diego and Italy this July 29th-August 16 at the Prince Street Gallery in Chelsea – NYC, NY. The opening is on Thursday July 31 – from 5pm – 8pm

The show’s title, “In and Out of Sight”,  reflects the fact that much of my recent work was done both on site and in the studio; from observation and from invention. Some paintings discovered insights into certain visual-emotional connections as well as a few that just felt out of sight.

The paintings done over multiple sittings evolved from scraping the paint off and on – forms coming in and out of sight and gradually coalesce into a unified whole. Some of the works are paintings that I had started previously on site and then reopened them up for studio work, a few I brought back and forth, combining studio inventions with on-site observation.

I hope any readers who are in NYC during this time will be able to come to the opening and/or send me an email and I may be able to meet you there as I will be in NYC for two weeks after the show starts.

Below is a sampling of work that will shipped for the show. I still have several paintings for show that still need to be photographed – once I do I will update this post with them here.  (all images below have larger version when clicked)