Works

The Six of Cups mural was created in the Spring of '23 for Kathryn and Lewis Shepherd. The mural sits in conversation with the early modernist visions of the Italian Futurists, Russian Constructivists, and German Expressionists while evoking the new world origins that inspired the creation of piece in its original Washington, D.C. home.

Succubus - A 21st Century She-Devil personifying the automated collective consciousness vampirizing the soul of the individual. She is playing with her cellphone, a man bound helplessly to the screen. From her pineal gland to his crotch area extends an ambiguous energy beam. She towers over an archaic fantasy city. Her skin is embedded with circuity, and she wears a sort of chrome armor bikini. It is at once an allegory for humanity's relationship with the internet, and a satire of old courtship games invented with social media and smartphones.

The painting was presented at Burning Man 2018. It was art for the 'I, Robot' Theme of the festival and was installed in the "Man Pavillion" at the three o'clock position of the pedestal on which the Man was mounted.

This is a series of watercolors I began while staying in Tokyo in the Fall of 2015. They are what I could do with watercolors and ink pens of various sorts (I was especially enthralled with the brush pens available everywhere in Tokyo). I would improvise something on one page of a small watercolor block in a few hours and then start another. About 20 were completed in all, and I later came to call them "Acceptance", because the improvisational nature of the drawing felt like a kind of self-acceptance that really differed from the exacting standards of the large scale "Crossroads of Curiosity" I had createdin 2014-15.

Burlesque. A 'Bestiary of the Burlesque'. This painting celebrates the strip joint, cabaret, and exotic dance club while satirizing it exaggeratedly. The painting expresses moral outrage while fetishistically lingering indulgently on every regrettable tresspass of common decency. Executed in 2015-16, the painting initially derived from a sketch made late one night at Canter's Delicatessen (24 hr Jewish Deli in Los Angeles) in 1991 .

Torture Garden is one of the painting/collages I was creating around 2013 that is a hybrid of original painting, original photography and collage elements that was developed through an iterative process of photoshop (digital collage), large format printing, and acrylic painting.

Believe it or not, this is my one and only effort to make anything resembling a comic strip. "Start small" is advice I just can't seem to ever listen to. Nope, I had to start with a graphic novel of a very complex sci-fi classic, Philip K. Dick's, "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (one of my all time favorite books!). I didn't quite get as far as finishing one chapter. I guess it's nothing to brag about, but I think I was off to a good start, and, who knows, may return to it if the stars align . . .

Chemical Imbalance is a small oil painting, part of the "Illuminations" series I completed between 2008-2016 of highly detailed (what I would characterize as "medieval" or at least monkish or goliardish - as the case may be) paintings.

These are pen and ink drawings, black and white drawings mostly, from sketchbooks going back all the way to my teenage years. Indeed, perhaps the majority of these drawings were executed between 1987 and 1993 (from the time I was 17 until 23). In those early years it was my habit to carry a sketchbook with me everywhere and whenever I felt uncomfortable, socially or otherwise, I would retreat to the sketchbook. Because I felt uncomfortable most of the time, a great deal of drawing got done.