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Raining Form 6, Transformation, 2026, Detail 1, 30 in h x 22.25 in w without hanging apparatus, mixed media on rag paper The image above gives the punch line before the story. I put it here because it represents the exhale after four months or so of working on this series. The Raining Form series was concerned with finding the balance between a defined form, photographs of that defined form,…

Detail 4, Roots & Rivers, 2026 I don’t remember ever having drawn on canvas except in Graduate School at CalArts. John Baldessari happened to come into my studio and see a drawing on canvas that I had just finished. He said that he loved it. This statement coming from someone who fought to keep me out of Graduate School. Paul Brach, then the Dean of the School of Art, fought to let me in. Paul…

Throughout my art-making years, from the beginning to where the work falls now, the subject matter of the work has vacillated from a uncertain minimalism to unquestionable surface engagement. My travels have not been intellectually easy. I wanted to land and stay put for a while and I did when the hatched line drawings prevailed. The hatched drawings took over my drawing pursuit for several…