Quadrans Circuli 2, 2014
Epson Ultrachrome Print on Canvas, 54 x 33.25, ed of 3
Quadrans Circuli 1, 2014
The circle, the most perfect of geometric forms presents me with a challenge. I can’t improve upon it but I can exploit it. How can they be put together to make something new? This is what motivates me when I create circle works. My Quadrans Circuli works take the simple premise of the circle divided into quadrants and orchestrating their composition and color. It’s a formal exercise layered on top of a creative one revealing the duality of my brain.
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Quadrans Circuli, 2014
Epson Ultrachrome Print on Somerset Velvet Paper
44 x 64 inches, ed of 3
Artwork “Getting Up” Acquired for Cleveland Clinic Art Collection
Me with “Getting Up”, Archival Digital Print on Cotton Rag, Edition 2 of 3, 36 x 50.5 inches
In this work influenced by Islamic Art and Sufism, my circles come alive with abstracted interlocking mandala like radial spinning constructions distilled from a personal methodology of kinetic dynamism. Making this work allowed me to experience freedom and move kinetically through my art, much like the Sufi Whirling Dervishes whose spinning dances bring them closer to spiritual bliss.
I was asked to grant permission to have the artwork reproduced for a series of posters with the goal of extending selected works from the Cleveland Clinic Art Collection to satellite facilities. I’m humbled by this because they select only a small portion of the collection for this program, being in the company of such artists as Catherine Opie and Sarah Morris.
Reformabit 2
Architects and engineers explain their designs in the form of construction drawings. My Reformabit works are abstractions on this idea; what I call “engineered abstraction”. Powered by mysterious forces, engineering collides with the creative in the form of fantasy machines of my imagination.
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Reformabit 2, 2013
Epson Ultrachrome Print on Paper
Edition of 3 @ 40 x 33 inches