NEWS
Field of Dreams
February 22 - March 23
Upsilon Gallery
23 E 67St. 3fl.
New York, NY 10065
info@upsilongallery.com
‘If you build it, they will come.’
is the iconic maxim to follow your dreams, from the 1989 movie.
It is central to the artist ideal of working from the heart to create art that is so personal that it is universal.
You are invited to travel through these dynamic visual fields,
from textural surfaces into pictorial space,
to discover new depths of field.
Spiritual art is a search for the divinity inside, the seed that built us, the light that gives us life. I spent years developing a style of abstraction as detailed as realism to reflect deeply personal, universal themes.
Inspired by Josef Albers’ Homage to a Square series, these minimal, abstract expressionist originals radiate the Joy of Summer all year long.
Worshiping the Ground
This is a window into a glowing world of encouragement through adversity.
Like a bright sunshiny morning, this painting is about beginnings.
Dust to Dust! Only by appreciating our humble beginning we can rise to the occasion and make the world a better place.
123Art Magazine Interview
123Art Magazine requested an interview with me about my art, process and life. The article was published in their March 2021 edition. It is posted here in its entirety.
Labyrinth Decoded
My painting Labyrinth is a mandala of sorts. It is not a place of answers, but episodes in a non-linear journey. The abstracted figures illustrate forces and concerns in our life path. Labyrinths have long symbolized ’The Unconscious’ that keeps our animal nature, the Minotaur, safe from polite society.
Inspirations
Seeing what someone else has done inspires us by making it seem possible, and by making us seem less idiotic for following our passions. Passion pulls us without resistance, like the Taoist path, passively pursuing its charms. Inspiration ignites possibilities by allowing us to envision the future.
Photographic likeness is only one form of representation. Abstract art expresses the artist’s inner feelings and spirit, likes & dislikes - thus represents those feelings, spirit & preferences.. Expression needn’t be interpreted, translated into words or communicate, but it still represents.
Artistic Breakthrough
Why do bad things happen to good people? The Greeks believed that ‘Challenges’ happen to good people. And that the God’s are making you stronger by formidable competition. Now lemonade is my favorite drink!
2020 is a watershed year for the world. Covid hit us hard in NYC and I sent this post as healing. For me the sequester was an art retreat where I developed a style that is the distilled essence of 35 years of making art: Labyrinths & Eternity Knots.
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." - Oscar Wilde
Art resonates the inner life of the maker.
Interpreting a work of art is a reflection of the viewer.
Abstraction to Realism and Back
In 2018 & 2019 I went on a realism kick and developed an enormous respect for Still Life & Landscape painting.