COVID Driveway Paintings - 2023


This group of paintings is a meditative construct, inviting a loss of self, an escape, not only to the formal process, but also into the transcendent experience of nature. 

Began after illness and while sheltering in place- quarantined during the pandemic. They were painted at the very edge of my land, at the end of my driveway, as if I were hitting an invisible force field or like a dog confined by an invisible fence. Held back only by my fear of COVID, I found it oddly amusing, painting in every direction as far as my leash would allow—losing myself to my work.

Rooted in perceptual observation and focus on the simplicity and honesty of pure painting—it is an austere aesthetic that reveres the raw and random elements of nature and the artistic process, embracing imperfection as inherent to the human experience. Drawing inspiration from the garden and landscape, as if playing a jazz standard, my paintings allow for spontaneous exploration, improvisation, and virtuoso performance. By exploiting relationships, accidents, and opportunities for abstraction, they convey a political stance of sorts—a romantic embrace of nature juxtaposed with a quiet rebellion against artifice and self-importance.

COVID Spring
2020
oil on canvas
50 x40

Collection Center for Figurative Painting, NYC

Spring Quince
2020
oil
50 x 48
Pool thru the Green Bushes
2020
oil
48 x 52

Collection

The Center for Figurative Painting, NYC

Ground Hog Day
oil on canvas
40 x 50
COVID DRIVEWAY QUINCE
2020
oil
50 x 48
Umber Trees / Shadow of the House
2023
oil on canvas
52 x 60
Mini Parked
2021
oil
18 x24
Fall Tree
2022
oil on canvas
46 x 38
Crape Myrtle
2022
oil on canvas
64 x 54
Driveway Late Afternoon with Forsythias
2023
oil on canvas
28 x 52
Outdoor Shower
2022
oil on canvas
34 x 46
Lilac And Hose
2022
oil on canvas
48 x 48
Spring Trees
2023
oil on canvas
50 x 60
Spring-2023
2023
oil on canvas
24 x 42
Yellow Thirst
2022
oil on canvas
48 x 54
Morning Sky over Mecox
2023
oil on canvas
50 x 60
Driveway Fence
2023
16x24

16x24 covid drive -fence