At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.
I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.
The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light.
I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other.
I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in different rooms. Paintings can change the way we experience and see the world.
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.