The line landscape drawings are based on similar constraints as Mondrian’s pier and ocean paintings: vertical and horizontal lines only, some smaller, some larger, and either close together or far apart. The fullness of space Mondrian creates with those choice lines is remarkable; they breathe outward and inward, bowing the picture plane. That simultaneous acknowledgment of line on the surface and as descriptor of deep space continues to influence the way I think about mark-making. In my drawing the horizon is made up of dashed lines, which refers to the process of its own making and provides a rhythmic, syncopated, provisional space. The horizon is a place where two things meet, not only land and sky or water and sky, but also day meeting night in the form of a sunset. You ride off into it—the end of one thing and the beginning of another—an uncertain future. While we might think of the sunset as a comforting trope, I want to show the hovering, unstable moment produced at this juncture of past and present, the eternal return and cyclical insistence of daily life. The most recent drawings experiment with an internal, mirrored repetition that sometimes extends through a scroll-like composition or doubling and stacking.
Separation Color Pencil on Paper 32” x 20” (two sheets of paper)
Shake-Down Color Pencil on Paper 14” x 11”
Down the Grey Path Graphite on Paper 12” x 16”
Setting Sun Jade Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 15”
I Know What You’re Thinking Graphite and color pencil on paper 16” x 12”
Two Step Color Pencil on Paper 16” x 20”
Measured Breaks Color Pencil on Paper 12”x16”
Setting Sun Jacuard Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 13” Private Collection
you are the lake of my seeing 44″x60″ color pencil on paper
Husks in Field Color Pencil on Paper 14” x 11”
The Distant Yellow Color Pencil on Paper 30” x 41 ¼”
AwayPencil on Paper11″x14″
UnsteadyColor Pencil on Paper, 14” x 11” private collection
McFarland Park Color Pencil on Paper 16” x 12”
Yellow and Green Ink on Paper, 9” x 6”
Shimmer Color Pencil on Paper 41” x 30”
Moonrise Graphite and Color Pencil on Paper 12” x 16”
Setting Sun French Magenta Color Pencil on Paper 10” x 14”
Setting Sun Road Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 14” Private Collection
Field Color Pencil on Paper 12” x 16”
In the Grass Color Pencil on Paper 55” x 71”
Melt Color Pencil on Paper 16” x 12” Private Collection
Setting Sun Imperial Color Pencil on Paper 15” x 11”
Just Peachy Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 14”
Setting Sun Black Rain Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 15”
Over the Rose Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 14”
March Color Pencil on Paper 6” x 9” Private Collection
Two Step Two Color Pencil on Paper 17 ¾” x 21 ¼”
Setting sun out of bounds Color Pencil on Paper 9” x 6”
Flicker Color Pencil on Paper 14” x 11”
Setting Fire Color Pencil on Paper 41” x 30”
