Installation view of the exhibition: Shapespace at Moberg Gallery February 2022
The Landscape and Line drawings begin with 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 created with those choice lines is remarkable; they breathe outward and inward, bowing the picture plane. The acknowledgment of line on the surface and as descriptor of deep space is an important part of the work as it holds both states simultaneously. The horizon is often 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; 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; the eternal return and cyclical insistence of daily life. Recent drawings include meditations on repetition with an internal mirroring that sometimes extends through a scroll-like composition or through doubling and stacking. The Addition of diagonal lines signals weather and interruption.
you are the lake of my seeing 44″x60″ color pencil on paper
Setting Sun French Magenta Color Pencil on Paper 10” x 14”
Locator Thunder Yellow color pencil and wax pastel on paper 31 x 26 inches
Separation Color Pencil on Paper 32” x 20” (two sheets of paper)
Setting Sun Road Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 14” Private Collection
UnsteadyColor Pencil on Paper, 14” x 11” private collection
Just Peachy Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 14”
Measured Breaks Color Pencil on Paper 12”x16”
Melt Color Pencil on Paper 16” x 12” Private Collection
Setting Sun Jacuard Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 13” Private Collection
The Distant Yellow Color Pencil on Paper 30” x 41 ¼”
Setting Sun Black Rain Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 15”
Yellow and Green Ink on Paper, 9” x 6”
Husks in Field Color Pencil on Paper 14” x 11”
Moonrise Graphite and Color Pencil on Paper 12” x 16”
AwayPencil on Paper11″x14″
Two Step Two Color Pencil on Paper 17 ¾” x 21 ¼”
Over the Rose Color Pencil on Paper 11” x 14”
In the Grass Color Pencil on Paper 55” x 71”
March Color Pencil on Paper 6” x 9” Private Collection
Two Step Color Pencil on Paper 16” x 20”
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”
Down the Grey Path Graphite on Paper 12” x 16”
Flicker Color Pencil on Paper 14” x 11”
Grounded Diagonal Graphite and permanent wax pastel on paper 11″x14″
Shake-Down Color Pencil on Paper 14” x 11”
Field Color Pencil on Paper 12” x 16”
Locator color pencil, graphite and permanent wax pastel on paper 55″x72″
Setting Sun Imperial Color Pencil on Paper 15” x 11”
Locator (Very Thin) Color Pencil and Graphite on Paper 27″x22″
Setting sun out of bounds Color Pencil on Paper 9” x 6”
