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Studio Visit
Shot in my Oakland studio prior to my solo show Stay Just A Little Bit Longer with Lola Shepard Curatorial Projects + Gallery, New York, 2025. |
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Solo show at Stremmel Gallery, Reno NV, June/July 2022 I am extremely grateful to Stremmel Gallery for the opportunity to have this solo show in their beautiful gallery spaces in Reno NV. The show consisted of fifteen paintings, mostly from the previous two years. A brief statement about the work in the show is below. Founded in 1969, Stremmel Gallery is located in a 6,500 square-foot, architecturally award-winning building in Reno’s Midtown District. Video soundtrack is Lillies by OV, and used with permission. |
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My work comes from thoughts about people and places; about permanence and impermanence; about notions of home and belonging. For some time now I’ve used the recurring motifs of boats, houses, and travelers, to reflect on life’s journeys, arrivals, and moorings, but some fresh imagery has emerged over the last two years.
This pandemic period posed many shared challenges, and I chose to respond to the darkness of the experience by making paintings that are abundant with plants, foliage, light, and color. I wanted my studio to be a place of optimism and benevolence, from where I could put out positive images into the world.
The studio also shares property with an urban farm, so the incremental changes of the plants became a daily observation and focus, and this may well have subconsciously permeated these paintings.
This pandemic period posed many shared challenges, and I chose to respond to the darkness of the experience by making paintings that are abundant with plants, foliage, light, and color. I wanted my studio to be a place of optimism and benevolence, from where I could put out positive images into the world.
The studio also shares property with an urban farm, so the incremental changes of the plants became a daily observation and focus, and this may well have subconsciously permeated these paintings.