New York

1977 - 2015

“Transposing the vision of landscape into abstraction by the use of the shaped canvas, which takes painting out of its two-dimensional rectangular pictorial format toward the realm of the sculptural.”

- Alan Jones

MUSE - Erato (1980) 66” x 35” x 16” (168cm x 89cm x 41cm)Oil paint on shaped canvas — MUSE - Erato (1980)
66” x 35” x 16” (168cm x 89cm x 41cm)
Oil paint on shaped canvas

“MUSE - Erato with its sensuous, even lyrical color, is typical of this (MUSE) series, for which the artist has drawn upon his studies of Neo-impressionism and other early modernist styles in which the physical and perceptual properties of light and color are at issue. Even so, the artist handles the painterly problem of shaped canvas in a way that is markedly sculptural: his paint application , for which he uses everything from brushes to his hands and feet, invariably follows the general contours of his oval support. Nor is that support reticent about its three-dimensional condition: its aggressively broad shadow signals that there is more than one side to consider here and indeed the sides too are painted, their colors keyed to the dominant tones of the frontal plane.”

- Art in America (January 1981)

“Ancient Echo conveys a powerful sense of the physical experience man’s encounter with nature. It carries the idea of listening to antediluvian oceans where now is mountainous desert, the dynamic forces of nature concentrated to an intense moment of perception. The timelessness of the geological is juxtaposed with the constantly renewing organic world.”
-Alan Jones