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Bird’s Got the Word no. 8
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Calliope no. 10
8″ x 10″
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Rene and Georgette Magritte, with their Dog After the War
9″x12″
The title taken from Paul Simon’s song, which was taken from a photograph by Belgian photographer Lothar Wolleh, which was allegedly taken during WWII, but likely taken some time in the 1960’s. I think of this painting as related to other paintings I’ve done called Going To Shubuta, about my ancestors fleeing Natchez, Mississippi during the Civil War.
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Yellow House
9″ x 12″
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Cutter
11″ x 14″
A guy with an axe, and a floating one of those head cones they use on dogs.
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Taconic
11″ x 14″
From a ride up the Taconic Parkway, New York City to the Hudson area to see our friends Deb and Karl, and also Elwood, if that’s his real name.
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Shubuta xi.
12″ x 16″
Someday I will try to work one of the these up in oil, but so far the image is too turbulent, shifty, and oil doesn’t lend itself to improvisation for me – or I don’t lend myself to planning things out. A corny metaphor, but drawing can be like jazz – pick a key and start playing. Oil painting is operatic. Try to improvise an opera and you’ve got a nasty mess on your hands. I admire painters who seem to truly improvise complex paintings in oil. Amy Sillman, Tim Hyman, R.B. Kitaj, Nicole Eisenman, Ken Kiff to name a few.
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River Water
7 1/2″ x 10 1/2″
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Number 29
12″ x 16″
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Milk Jug
10″ x 18″
It’s called “Milk Jug” but I’m pretty sure this is where they learn how to make booze.
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Old South Snow Globe
11″ x 14″
When you shake it, instead of pretend snow swirling around, it’s cotton. Shortly after I painted this, I realized I had unconsciously absorbed the image from this painting by the magnificent Argentinian painter Daniel Santoro.
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Buddha Head Triptych
11″ x 30″
This is a triptych of Buddha Heads, all separate charcoal drawings (10″ x 11″ each, in real life they are on Rives BFK paper with a nice edge, though I cropped here for convenience). Three is the magic number.
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Wastrels & the Barest Breast
9″ x 12″
A small companion piece, or younger sibling, or post-cursor of Please Please Pleiades and Specter Projector.
