Oil Paintings 1988- 1995
After graduating from the University of Michigan School of Art, I worked CNA Insurance Companies as a graphic designer for many years. One of their type suppliers gave me free space in their enormous shop where I could paint in oils and not worry about making a mess.
Cold Winds 1995
37” x 48”
Starting as friends and ending as enemies, the cold winds that blow between them only heighten their enmity
Kitchen Theater 1995
39” x 57”
Never a better time to play out our traditional family roles than while making a meal for the family.
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Broken Flower 1995
49”x30”
The empty bowl and the hapless man, the broken flower and the kneeling woman. All products of misfortune and lack of connections.
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Provenance/Paradigm 1993
39” x 51”
Then little baby chick that becomes the kapores chicken. The little girl that becomes a woman. What is a precious diversion, can later, become a burden which impedes our forward progress.
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Red River 1993
57” x 43”
The blood that binds all us women; virgins, post-partum, the innocent and those that carry burdens of shame.
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Leap 1993
43” x 57”
She fearlessly leaps forward to the great untrodden future.
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No Strings Attached 1992
54” x37"
She laughingly releases her hold on
the past as the lush plant swallows the man tenuously holding on to all his childish baggage.
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Simchat Torah 1992
33” x 48”
Here the three ages of man are shown relating to Torah. The young man cannot grasp it. The middle-aged man confidently carries two, the old man leans on it for support.
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Secrets 1992
51”x 34”
She eagerly spills the secrets drenching her husband in shame as her friend gleans the goodies.
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The Wall 1990
25” x38”
Hiding behind a wall of his own devising, her attempts at reaching around it are for naught.
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The Taker 1989
29” x36”
Misshapen from youth, she has gotten used to her helplessness which has slowly turned into gross abuse of her elder mother.
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Apollo and Daphne 1991
47” x 33”
Apollo finally reaches Daphne just as she begins her transformation to a tree. Daphne is frozen in disbelief as she realizes how her father saves her from Apollo’s reach.
Swimmer 1990
14” x 62”
The excitement, the frenzy, the calm and the zen of this exercise.
Moment 1989
43” x 22”
Youthful self-portrait
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Fountain of Youth 1988
30" x 40"
A decrepit pool, unused and algae ridden sets the symmetry for this aging community of retirees.
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