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1. New panels in process: Derrida, Foucault and Marie Vernet

   2016-11-09 17:10:00 UTC

   This series of paintings recapitulates arguments about the male gaze–my gaze as an Anglo male, heterosexual painter, and the gaze of many others–made by postmodern philosophers like Derrida and Foucault, and feminist postmodernists like Helene Cixous, 40 and 50 years ago.  As an example, the painting of Marie Vernet uses…

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2. Shifting Ground

   2016-10-27 20:08:00 UTC

   The Patriarch. Completed October 2016 in acrylic on panel, 16”x16”. I bought 20 16x16x2 panels from Albuquerque craftsman Bruce Loyd earlier this year. At the time, I hoped the move would help me expand the dimensions of my painting practice, firstly by giving me a bigger pool of panels to…

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3. In process: portrait of Mindy Grossberg

   2016-06-15 17:30:00 UTC

   I am deeply moved by portraiture as a genre across media and across the centuries. I am focused on it, day after day, and I’m approaching it through a handful of threads joining my explorations into the labyrinth. One thread of them is about a desire to make a portrait…

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4. Request for Collaborators: Portraits

   2016-04-19 21:27:00 UTC

   Standing on a smoking battlefield at dusk, a man in a dark suit holds clean calfskin gloves and an iPhone 6s. He looks troubled, and a little hunched against the wind. He looks to be 50, Anglo, maybe Swedish. A man in a rumpled clown suit sits in a heavy…

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5. Glen Frey, 1976

   2016-01-25 23:50:00 UTC

   The Eagles Live was one of the first LPs I bought–right after J. Geils Band, and along with Kraftwerk, Who’s Next and more, as a part of my first Columbia Record House bonanza. Hotel California remains one of the defining albums of the decade of my birth; and Glen Frey…

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6. Making Photographs

   2015-09-28 20:13:00 UTC

   Aaron Diskin, now a photographer and musician, and I went to high school together. At the time, our school had a photography program, including a darkroom, led by Jack Zichitella. Mr. Z provided us with the mentorship, information and resources to develop the idea that we were artists. All of…

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