Tongue with pill and Cloud
oil on canvas
50 x 40”
2022
I started playing around with the idea of the tongue in paintings drawings and sculpture back in 2010. The idea of it removed from someones mouth, out in the world, seemed like a funny metaphor for the ineffable and reminded me of gogol’s story “the Nose” or the horror film about the hand detached from its body
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Untitled (Hegal + Kant)
Oil on linen
20 x 16”
2022
Since the early nineties I have used text and phrases in my work. I think of them as found objects - words disconnected from their sources and placed on banners, books or other objects to open up their meaning and resonate (or on occasion implode) - sometimes they are comments on my process, or art, or society - sometimes they are things I hear friends say in conversation- most often they are funny phrases that pop into my head while I am drawing, or walking, or riding my bike.
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Untitled (green chair)
oil on paper
12 x 9”
Painting was originally a study for the smaller painting pictured above the table
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Untitled (the message)
Marker on paper
24 x 18”
1996
Found this oldie from the nineties in a box of drawings. Searching for spatial ambiguities - I was looking for a way to set up a structure across the page that would engage visually and conceptually, without being overdetermined. Then again, sometimes a drawing is just about getting from one side of the page to the other.
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