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4-D Serpiginous Abstraction series
1. Aix, oil on plaster on canvas
2. Eiffel Tower, oil on plaster on canvas
3. In Seine, oil on plaster on canvas
4. Jill in the Grass, oil on plaster on canvas
5. Not So Still-Life, oil on plaster on canvas
6. Paul’s Fruit, oil on plaster on canvas
7. Phoenix Setting, oil on plaster on canvas
8. Phoenix, oil on plaster on canvas
9. Prague at Noon, oil on plaster on canvas
10. Self Portrait 07, oil on plaster on canvas
11. The Valley, oil on plaster on canvas
12. Vince’s Flowers, oil on plaster on canvas
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Artist Statement
Throughout my life, I’ve had a burning desire to paint but it was not until 2004 when I pursued my dream. I experimented for years with oils and plaster developing my unique mixed media technique that incorporates painting with oils and relief wall sculpture utilizing the placement of heavy plaster on a canvas. I call this technique 4-Dimenional Serpiginous Abstraction. Three dimensions are achieved by sculpturing deep snake-like lines into thick plaster on the surface of the canvas. The fourth dimension is my the bright colors. The colors bleed from the human face or from a building in a cityscape, achieving a multi-linear composition which explodes into the face of the viewer. You really cannot appreciate the 3-dimensional effect of the plaster sculpturing by just viewing a photograph or a J-peg.
Painting is my attempt to tame my inner obsession to constantly create. It is art that provides me the gift to search my inner self. Holding a brush and placing it on the canvas becomes an extension of something within. I like to use bright, vivid colors and thick paint strokes which control the play of light and add expression to the painting. The heavy textures and the colors lets out the energy that is stored onto the canvas.
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4-D Human Serpiginous Abstraction series
1. The Chest X-ray, oil on plaster on canvas
2. Heart Burn, oil on plaster on canvas
3. Head from The Human Image, oil on plaster on canvas
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Artist Statement
In the last 100 years, medicine and art have metamorphosed. Art has moved away from reality into the realms of abstraction and expressionism and medicine has moved in the other direction becoming more realistic. In 1896, the X-ray depicted an archaic image of a hand and now in the 21st century, technologies like MRI and Cat Scans can image human anatomy in the same detail as what a surgeon would see during an operation. The challenge is to marry modern medicine and contemporary art. I have navigated the intersections of the highways of science and medicine and have developed a unique style of art by utilizing my medical knowledge of human medical imaging with expressionism.
The colors bleed from a human face, the brain, the beating heart or the kidneys, achieving a multilinear composition which explodes into the face of the viewer.
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Artist Bio
I am a self-taught artist. I presently live in Southern New Jersey and work in Philadelphia.
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Selected Exhibitions
2008
Balance Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Art Blooms, Croft Farm Art Center, Cherry Hill, NJ
Juried Exhibition
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Here & Now, Copy Gallery Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition
2006
Second Street Tavern, Philadelphia, PA |
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