This exhibit at The New Gallery reintroduces my work to Houston. For over 20 years I have been absent. Technically I have had maybe 5 shows during that period, but they were uninspired. Around 1990 I lost myself. I convinced myself into becoming someone else. I worked very hard at it. I gave my all to 20 years of realist, photo inspired pictures. I painted as much as I always do. Was it a complete loss? Souless Yes, but I did learn a great deal about painting. What I am now doing is a result of that period in the wilderness. I cannot dwell on it; I have too much to do and not enough time. People seeing this show do not remember my work although I was very large in the 70s and 80s. The show has work from those years and work from the present. Here are pictures of the show,
The newest work in the show.
From the left: a transitional Waterfall from Santa Fe years, a Santa Fe inspired
high mountain memory and some geometric Santa Fe landscape inspired doted pictures
From the left: Praying Man with Flying Flaming House from My Mexican period 1978,
the Icarus that was begun in Rome and worked on several times over 30 years
until I sell it, it is still a work in progress. I like it in this stage, and Apollo slaying the Pythion Serpent,
done in 1986 after my Rome period. Look up the story...Goggle it.
Moon Dog 1977-2012 acrylic/glitter and the Human Condition 1974 acrylic/glitter
It is a good installation. I picked 90% of the works and Thom Andriola installed them and even took my advice. This is the first show ever that I have chosen and helped install. The space is wonderful.
Alligator in a Swamp 1976 acrylic/glitter/mud and Flying House 1973 acrylic/glitter/wall paper
Big Rock Candy Mountain 48 x 60 2009
I painted this in painting class at Tomball College. It is a major transition painting, done after the picture on the right of the Waterfall.
Passage 38 x 48, The Basin 48 x 60, and The Leap 36 x 48
Done in January after MM and I went to Terlingua.
Here are some pictures at the opening.
I am talking to Ron Clark who cuts my hair.
MM and ES
In front of a 1973 Winged House painting. Themes like this have returned to my work.
Al Smith gave me a burnt piece of wood and I embedded it in dirt and acrylic and glitter and it became an Alligator in a Swamp; from the early 70s. I was doing Alligators then.
Two of my students came to the show.
This is called Moon Dog. Andy Feehan brought me a large black Mexican Hairless Dog who was so spooked and crazy with terror that it immediately raced out an open door into the night, never to be seen again. The painting followed in 1977 and later rolled up until this year when I re- streched it and enhanced it with more dots and glitter. I am still convinced of the legitity of glitter.
I started using it in the 60's and it returns.
My hip is giving me problems. I had a cortizone shot which has calmed the pain, but a Doctor needs to tell me what is wrong. I want nothing to curtail my work. School is almost over. I have three weeks in the studio before summer school and I have plans.
Here are some new works.
Passage 36 x 48 acrylic 01-2012
Bad Lands, Terlingua 48 x 60 acrylic 01-2012
La Isola della Donna 48 x 36 acrylic 03-2012
Convergence 36 x 24 acrylic 02-2012
La Isola della Serina 24 x 30 acrylic 03-2012
Many Paths 30 x 24 acrylic 03-2012
Here is the studio in February with the Bad Lands in progress
Some pictures start as horizontals and become virticales, The one on the eisel became virtical and called Donna della Lago. The Basin is in the back and in the front is Painter's apron #6
Painter's Apron #6 36 x 36 acrylic collage 03-2012
Terlingua Cloud 24 x 20 acrylic 02-2012
Cloud 24 x 20 acrylic 04-2012
Cactus and Suculent 16 x 20 04-2012
Another Destination 24 x 30 acrylic 04-2012
Tentative Position 18 x 18 acrylic/glitter 04-2012
