- Recent Work
- Haines Gallery, San Francisco
- Catalogue
- Press Release
- About this work
Recent Work consists of thirteen paintings that function as a self-referential system. The works progress logically, beginning with pairs or quads of nearly identical ‘siblings’ that appear different because the order of the painted layers is shuffled. Otherwise, they are materially, physically identical in color, form, composition, and technique. The group culminates in large works that exhibit an expansion of the compositional field–a disintegration of the regularity of the forms, and an increasing spatial perspective. These works represent a ‘break’–a shift, a digression–or perhaps, a beginning or an ending. Differentiation within the closed system allows for comparison and the assertion of identity. ‘Familial’ repetition within the body of work is a means of suggesting multiplicity and transformation through the language of abstraction. The dichotomy between the intact, tightly geometric paintings and the larger, more expansive works is exaggerated. Distinctions between related paintings address fundamental issues of digression versus conformity, divergence versus convergence, and individuality versus community.
Recent Work was exhibited at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, May 11 - June 17, 2006.
Variation/Mutation (brown, blue, red, white) is held in the collection of the United States Embassy, Algeria. Variation/Mutation (red, green, lavender, white) is in the collection of the Oakland Museum of California.