in support of free & independent UKRAINE, I'm donating 100% of all proceeds from art sales to the Bay Area humanitarian aid organization www.heartsforukraine.us
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PURPLE CURTAIN DRAW
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T 60" x W 44 1/2" (~1.52m x 1.13m)
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IN THE FOLD 2020
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MALE FIGURE Il. SEATED. LOOKING AWAY
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36.6 MONA, PRETZEL, ORIGAMI
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MALE FIGURE I. SEATED. VIRASANA
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MALE FIGURE IV. MIKE
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MALE FIGURE III. HAKA DANCE
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MALE FIGURE III. HAKA DANCER
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T 24" x W 18" (~61 x 46 cm)
POETRY READING POETRY
DRAWING: dry / soft pastel on watercolor paper, over wood panel
DIPTYCH :: T 48" x W 12" (~61 x 46 cm) each panel. [ Together: 48" x 24" ]
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PORTOLLA
DRAWING: dry / soft pastel on watercolor paper, over wood panel
DIPTYCH :: T 44 1/2" x W 120" (~1.31 m x 3.05 m)
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I'VE BECOME COMFORTABLY NUMB (after Pink Floyd lyrics)
DRAWING: dry / soft pastel on watercolor paper, over wood panel
T 44 1/2" x W 44 1/2" (~1.31 m x 1.31 m)
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In the times like these, when we all struggle for air, making art, is my oxygen. It's the breathing medium in which to exist. Life throws curve-balls & poses questions which my art-making tries to address, without ever fully answering them. It points me in a direction, gives a thread to follow. In my work constructed reality is a fantasy into which my viewer is invited to enter.
2020 has been an interesting year for the world. Here in Cali, while sheltering in place due to covid-19 epidemic, incessant California wildfires started raging earlier than their usual season. Fires burnt more land & forests than ever before in the recorded history of the state. They pushed dwellers out of their homes, razed through wildlife, polluted air. Air pollution was so great that we shall always remember that Wednesday morning in September - its surreal gravely heavy orange color provided depth only seen in the cinematic Hollywood productions. I was one of many artists who captured the apocalyptic atmosphere in their art. Orange Wednesday “inspired” the artwork “I’ve become comfortably numb.” Women are rendered to be ephemerally dressed in air. background is a heavy setting for the barely present four human female bodies.
RIGHT BEFORE WE LEFT
DRAWING: dry / soft pastel on watercolor paper, over wood panel
T 26" x W 40" (~ 66 cm x 1.02 m)
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PENCIL SKETCHES
DRAWING: dry / soft pastel on watercolor paper
each drawing is 9" x 12" (~23 x 30.5 cm)