Portfolio > Storm Windows

Rain Will Come
ink and acrylic on paper
29" x 19"
October 2012
detail 1 - 'Rain Will Come'
ink and acrylic on paper
29" x 19"
October 2012
detail 2 - 'Rain Will Come'
ink and acrylic on paper
29" x 19"
October 2012
Depression Glass
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail 1 - 'Depression Glass'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail 2 - 'Depression Glass'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail 3 - 'Depression Glass'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
Wolves in the Window
ink and acrylic on paper
29" x 19"
November 2012
detail 1 - 'Wolves in the Window
ink and acrylic on paper
29" x 19"
November 2012
detail 2 - 'Wolves in the Window'
ink and acrylic on paper
29" x 19"
November 2012
Spring River
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail - 'Spring River'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
Marked Exit
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail 1 - 'Marked Exit'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail 2 - 'Marked Exit'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
Safe in All Weather
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail - 'Safe in All Weather'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail 2 - 'Safe in All Weather'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail 3 - 'Safe in All Weather'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
Measure of Time
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail - Measure of Time'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
detail 2 - 'Measure of Time'
ink and acrylic on paper
37" x 25"
November 2012
Dewy Draft of Frost
ink and acrylic on paper
29" x 19"
November 2012
Past Summers' Storms
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
detail - 'Past Summers' Storms'
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
Invisibility
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
Heart Rate
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
detail - 'Heart Rate'
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
Past Present
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
detail - "Past Present"
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
detail 2 - "Past Present"
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
Window (Blue)
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
Window (Yellow)
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
Window on the Morning
ink and acrylic on paper
27" x 23"
October 2012
The Oldest Window in the House
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
Storm Window 1
ink and acrylic on paper
27" x 23"
October 2012
detail - "Storm WIndow 1"
ink and acrylic on paper
27" x 23"
October 2012
Night Storms
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012
detail - "Night Storms"
ink and acrylic on paper
25" x 37"
October 2012

New Work
Ink and Acrylic Paintings
Fall 2012

In the 15th century Leon Battista Alberti called paintings 'a window' on the world.

In the 20th century Abstract Expressionists worked against this kind of illusionism and made a concerted effort to reinstate the picture plane as a flat but infinite possibility.

Infinity is frequently juxtaposed to our own mortal limit.

Withour much effort our thoughts can revolve around the possibilities of our mortality.

But imagining the aftermath of death is as difficult as comprehending infinity.

It is like a window that we constantly try to see beyond and yet its frame and its glass barrier remain.

Storm windows are used to reinforce the fragile glass barrier protecting it from nature's onslaught of wind and bad weather.

Our imagination is like the storm window acting for us as that part of our psychological being that suggests a glimpse toward what is beyond us at the same time protecting us from the inevitable.

10-2012