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Painting has taught me to listen. The subjects that stop me share a quality I can only describe as brutish sophistication—a rugged elegance that has arrested me my whole life. And in that stopping, I’ve found that the most common places, and the most common lives, become anything but. My medium is acrylic on canvas. The process is fast and committed—gestural mark-making, layered color, brushwork that carries its own momentum. There is dimension in the work that has no business being there: no careful line, no patient contour, just relationships of color doing structural work that stops people from across the room.
I am, at bottom, a man who builds things—and that has given me a suspicion of shortcuts, a respect for materials, and an eye for the complexity inside things that look simple. It has also given me an almost irrational fascination with the people I meet every day—the ones whose stories, if you are patient enough to hear them, turn out to be anything but ordinary.
My paintings have been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally over three decades. The work is grounded in an earlier career in visual communication, recognized with Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards and a United Press International honor—where I learned that composition, color, and the speed of a viewer’s eye are practical problems. I have never stopped treating them that way.
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