Original artwork description:

This painting features an array of interlocking shapes spread edge to edge over a flat ground with white taking center stage as the dominant color off of which the others play. Conscious of Richard Diebenkorn's abstract "plain paintings," I'm concerned here with anatomical implications of the tight fit of complimentary body parts, sexual in nature assuredly but not exclusively. The black phallic shape thrusting dramatically down from the upper left corner is a most clear case in point, but the white spherical shape near the center of the canvas, surrounded protectively all around by darker yet nurturing paint passages, suggests the security and warmth of the womb, itself not sexual directly, yet the offshoot of that most natural of drives. Following these markers the rest of the composition falls into place as a further collection of hand-in-glove paint pairings. The word "Jezebel" sprang to mind as a word with no prior significance for me, but one that had a musical ring seemingly in concert with the resultant plain of living, life-giving paint.



Influences, among others, include Max Beckmann, Edvard Munch, Bob Thompson, George McNeil, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Francesco Clemente, R.B. Kitaj and Willem de Kooning.

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Materials used:

Oil paint, gesso, charcoal and enamel on canvas

Tags:

#figurative #expressive #texture #colorful #painterly #bodies #fertility #textural oil #sexuality #figurative expressionism #figurative abstract #dramatic paintings #expressive energetic #movement and