One of my favorites-

Another from the crosses series,this painting was done on a panel from an old door.The size is approximately 2 by 6 feet.At this time,while interested in restoration work,I began to move from painting on canvas,to painting on architectural things,like old windows and doors,drywall,masonite,wood,furniture,and other materials and objects,that were either parts of buildings or things that people used.I began to think about paintings moving off the wall and into spaces where they could be touched.

From the crosses series

My version of The Cry.
This painting may be one of the best examples of my painting style,thick impasto,intense color,movement and texture.

This painting was one of the first done while at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991.It was done during period of time when I worked primarily in chalk pastel.It is mixed media,acrylic,with oil pastel.This model was a dancer who was willing to hold difficult to maintain extended poses such as this one holding a ball in the air.

This painting involved a new style of rolling and transferring paint more like a print,rather than my usual thick impasto.I applied the paint with a brush then rolled over it to give a dilute,blurred effect.t's also a departure in it's limited palette of blues,and greens.I was influenced by Matisse during this time,and the image of the moon in the background became a recurring image.

This painting is a large,oil on canvas,approximately 3 by 5 feet.Like my other work,it is a figurative abstraction,however,my ideas about the body were more focused on the internal.Rather than figure as form,I was concerned with space,and the mystery of the internal I could not see.This was painted during a time when I had several surgeries,and had seen shown medical images of the process by my doctor.

I painted this while studying art history, it is part of a series of figurative abstractions inspired by the sculptures and Roman frieze work in Italy.Similar to the crosses series,some of the imagery is taken from religious Italian renaiassance relief works,while the style is expressionst and concerned with color,texture,movement and emotional intensity.

As an artist who went to catholic school for twelve years I see crosses everywhere.This series of abstractions has a focus on the form of the cross as well as color and texture.As a Chicago artist who studied at the School of the Art Institute,abstract expressionism and religious imagery from a Catholic school background were both influences.

This painting is an abstraction that evolved from a series done in studio sessions with the live female nude.The figure was painted as a landscape and increasingly magnified and cropped.There are several paintings done of nude female figures,and landscapes with symbols that are repeated in other paintings,such as rivers,the moon,and crosses. Spirituality,the body and it's relationship to the environment is a theme throughout my work,as well as a concern with color and movement.

This is a very old drawing done when I was a teenager.During this time I worked a lot in pen and ink,this is the only drawing from this period I have left.