swimming in the studio soup, lots of unsolved paintings in play for months and then this thing revealed its final form on Tuesday—elated to say the least…feeling a jolt. This one is major and today I’m celebrating it.
“the pond”
acrylic on canvas
36 x 36in
2024
> for scale and details >
Kewl studio update! 🚨@mowilliams11 came for a visit with @curina.co and interviewed me about my recent work, and @anavega.ph took some great 🚧👷♂️🚧 photos! I muttered some vague information about my paintings, tell me what it means! A good read if you wanna learn more about the motivation behind @watercoloursociety
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Link in the bio
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(Not yet titled), 25x21in, acrylic on canvas (in progress)
being flat (Goldey)
25 x 21 in
acrylic on canvas
2025
This painting developed out of a drawing I made during the @thegoldeyhouse x @watercoloursociety 2024 retreat (last slide), where I was making pastel under drawings, then painting on top of them with masking fluid and layers of watercolors over the pastel.
Drawing:
being flat (study)
12 x 9in
Soft pastel & watercolor on paper
2024
being flat (sunrise)
52 x 38in
acrylic on canvas drop cloth
2025
considering a landscape as the ground would see it…or observed from flat on your back. I’m obsessed with this premise—been touching grass longer than all these fools!
Last slides show the painting installed at “No Regerts II”
Debuting a new painting at an outdoor group show this Saturday at McGolrick Park organized by @stcharlesprojects
From the press release:
“Intentionally misspelled, No Regerts, is an invitation to artists to adapt their studio practice to the unconventional setting of an outdoor pavilion. We celebrate the expansive and unpredictable nature of a studio practice in flux. Mistakes welcome. Experiments and side quests encouraged. No regrets.”
Thanks to @dominicterlizzi & @cccstiver for organizing this
pictured: WIP detail, acrylic on stretched drop cloth
MINION
18 x 18in, 46 x 46cm
Acrylic on canvas
2025
On view @popgunart opening this Saturday for ‘Miniotics’ book launch @blankmagbooks_nyc 6-9pm 17 Eldridge St
original illustrations for the campfire songs zine, 16.25 x 11.75in, 41 x 30cm ea, watercolor and ink on paper, 2025
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available exclusively through @fieldofplaygallery for $200.00 ea
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
― Georgia O’Keeffe, The Poetry of Things (quoted in Press Release for Campfire Songs)
The mystery of nature and forests has always made my imagination run wild. People obsess over it, adorning the walls of our homes with things that represent the outside—the animals, the plants, the landscape, the myths—as if continuing in the tradition of cave painters. We like to be surrounded by the feeling of it, but we’re also implicit in its destruction. Maybe it’s because we aren’t actually looking, we are imagining and building on the myth that we control nature.
It’s so rare to see, and nothing dispels this myth like actually seeing the eyes of a cougar beaming back at you, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere.
Nothing makes you see like being caught in a rip current. Or actually hearing a pack of howling wolves.
I want to make paintings that pay tribute to
nature like this, moments that are beyond control, moments where I am completely powerless and insignificant, paintings that examine my relationship with this world.
Campfire Songs
Opening 3/22 6-8pm
@fieldofplaygallery
on view through 4/13
We produced a limited edition color riso zine available for $10 each (special price for opening), $15 all other times.
Thanks to Wesley Ware for choosing this work for a show theme that I feel deeply connected to ☯️
