It is said that the Moon is made of Green Cheese, 1983

This painting is my donation to the Cascade Aids Projects annual Gala art auction. I have used this grand event with mixed results in recent years to find some exposure for works from my portfolio archives that I think contains certain redeeming qualities, but which have never been publicly exhibited, and also are not likely to find exhibition opportunities elsewhere in my lifetime. This painting began life as a strictly non-objective construct. I came to recognise certain representational elements later...the red bands as the cording on military band unifofrms and the white disk as a moon shape in a night sky. Lately it has come to read rather ominously to me, as a view out from a concrete bunker at night. The title given here is new, created for the entry form for the auction. I felt a need to lighten things up a bit!

More Word Painting from the Archives

GAME PLAN (Ping Pong Green) 1978
Using paint color from a can called "Ping Pong Green" which was really the inspiration for this piece, I constructed stretchers that created a window into the canvas where I ran a small section of ping pong table netting for this painting abvout games and rules and strategy in competition.

40 x 48
rubberized playing table paint, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
1979

The Portrait Of Door E (In Grey)

Another example of my early object based pieces. A bad pun I'm afraid. I enjoy putting these out there. Hope I'm not the only one!

1978
acrylic on canvas with brass letter "E" and knob
32 x 80

Tennis Anyone? 2

As I said, the tennis ball made it into the serial assignment. We were to make four paintings, and were free to find our own subject and approach to the assignment, Divergent thinker that I am, I made two large square canvases and completed the four painting requirement by putting two separate square images on a single large panel, (actually an un-used sliding closet door from my parents house complete with it's aluminum frame and nylon wheels)
This painting is also from 1977, is 78 x 42 and the tennis ball is rendered in oil paint while the rest of the painting is in enamel. The figure in this series of paintings came from a newspaper photograph of a fireman climbing over a chain link fence during the course of his duties and I placed him in a new setting. Neither of the paintings on canvas have survived.