Oil Text-Based Abstracts
There is no Rule that text-based art must be legible. These are fully cohesive text narratives lost in next layers. A personal writing system. Scrawls. New Cave Art. Visual Sound Art. Layers of process, meanings, materials. Text-based art as inquiry into lines and curves. All of the above, in performative executions in just minutes, after months or a year of thought.
Referencing Twombly, Pollock, and Bochner, and more visually — and referencing constructs of literature, rhetoric, short verse, and manifestos substantively.
We Could Have Been Lovers But Then You Were Gone, 2020, layers of oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 84 x 54 in approx. 213 x 138 cm. An essay about the work is here. A second view of the work appears below.
Courtesy of collector: You Chose To Misremember So We Have Moved On, 2020, layers of oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 84 x 56 in 213.4 x 142.2 cm. See gallery view below.
We Could Have Been Lovers But Then You Were Gone, 2020, layers of oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 84 x 54 in approx. 213 x 138 cm. An essay about the work is here.
Everything We Story The Opposite Is True, 2021, oil stick on canvas, 68 in x 66 in.
Gallery view, solo show. You Chose To Misremember So We Have Moved On, 2020, layers of oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 84 x 56 in 213.4 x 142.2 cm. Sold 2021.
Species Anosognosia. Executed 2019, oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 7 feet x 5 feet, 88.5 in x 62.25 in, 224.8 cm x 158.1 cm. First writing system painting. Artist’s collection.
New Cave Painting No ___ (Untitled), 2019, oil stick on canvas, 11.3 feet x 5.5 feet, artist’s collection. As with all writing system works, this piece is composed entirely of text in my loose handwriting. Lettering ranges from three inches to three feet tall. It constitutes a complete substantive narrative.
New Cave Painting No ___ (All Events Are Not My Will But New Gods Let Me Try), 2021, layers of oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 84 x 58 in.
New Cave Painting No ___ (California Always Was My Favorite Ride), 2021, layers of oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 84 x 58 in.
New Cave Painting No ___ (I Am Each Of The Pieces That Make Me And You Will Not Reduce Me), 2021, oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 122 in x 58 in. Conceived 2019; 18 months of contemplating; then executed in under 20 minutes, pausing only for hand cramps and snapped oil sticks.
