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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Floating Brain

This is the one that started all this crazyness with vines , which think of giant doodles using vines which is mounted on the outside of my studio.

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Labels: Floating Brain10'x10' vines and wire

Studio Angel

Angel during the big October snow storm

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Labels: Studio Angel 14' x 9' vines wire and snow

Funny You Should Ask

sort of a sofa size version of Floating Brain

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Labels: Funny You should Ask 46''x 60'', vines and wire

Night Creatures and Marsh Moon Mist

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Labels: Night Creatures with Marsh Moon mist 80''x 216" clay and acrylic on panels with vines

Wind Over Water- Heaven Over Water

Formally under a differnt title and precurser to combination with Night Creatures

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Labels: Wind Over Water - Heaven Over Water 80''x 216" clay and acrylic on panels

Spring River

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Labels: Spring River 30''x 48'' clay and acrylic on canvas

Maybe God Lives Here

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Labels: Maybe God Lives Here 48" in diameter clay on burlap

Silent River

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Labels: clay and acylic on burlap, Silent River 24"" in diameter

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Labels: Silent River 24'' in diameter clay on burlap

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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Labels: Me in front my paintingat New York State Museum in Albany

Monday, September 12, 2011

I was on NPR news September 7th in an interview with Crai Lamoult ,http://www.wshu.org/news/story.php?ID=9080

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Labels: I nterview on NPR

Thursday, April 28, 2011

New works made from clay and acrylic on canvas.

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Labels: ''Heaven and Earth'', 80''x 162'', clay and acrylic on canvas

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Labels: ''Gumbo Variations" clay and acrylic on canvas, 79''x40''

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Labels: ''Vortex'' clay and acrylic on canvas, 24''x 24''

Friday, November 5, 2010

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Labels: Work In Progress out of clay and acrylic

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Review by Tracy O'Shaughnessy in the July 7 Waterbury Republican -American

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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Review by Tracy O'Shaughnessy in the July 7 Waterbury Republican -American

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Monday, July 12, 2010

Earth Variations (90''x 160'')

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Labels: Clay and acrylic

Up Jumped Spring (48''x48'')

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Frog Love (60''x 46'')

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I started a series of paintings , veiws from the Flood Plain , this last summer 2007. It was actually quite unpremeditated. I was plein air painting with acrylics on canvas out on farm in Weathersfield , Ct and I felt disconnected from the what I was doing , and like who needs a another idealized landscape . So out of frustration I started mixing the soil from the farm with acrylic medium and suddenly I felt this viseral connection with the land . I had a realiztion that this land probably would be populated with MacMansions and a strip mall if this farm wasn't in the flood plain . I listen to books on tape while I work , many of these paintings were done while listening to books like The Omnivores Dilema , Grapes of Wrath . .. many of the paintings in this series were done on location using the dirt from the farm and they reflect my growing awareness about the direction of the American agricutural industrial complex . These paintings are from my show in 2008 at New Arts Gallery .