Wandering Table

Cupcake: Haggle, 2010
oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
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Reaction: Indeterminate, 2010
oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
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Dominatrices, 2011
oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
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Contract: Variations of Red, 2009
oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
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Pass, 2008-09
oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
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Bread and Circus, 2011
oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
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This group is also from the wandering table series. The table with its symbolic elements wandered from an abstract spatial field to a landscape space, to outside of some architectural structures and finally to an interior space. Along the way, the symbols and elements gathered to a picture or mirror or window on a wall, oblique and confounded perspective, and a mystery of the table elements.

Blue Bar: Critical Mass, 2013
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches

Where to start a story of ones painting life when it has been a continuum is a challenge. I choose this somewhat arbitrarily as it is from a good time in my life. I had been living in the ‘upper’ Tenderloin in San Francisco, working several jobs downtown and teaching in Santa Rosa.

I walked everywhere (except driving to Santa Rosa). My sketchbook drawings were mostly filled with bar drawings, while my studio paintings were of a ‘wandering table’ series. This painting captures both the bar and the table, along the spatial concepts I have been exploring over the years.
Flat and brushy fields of color (blue!) with elements suggesting architectural space.