My "Studio"
Here is a picture of my workspace along with one of the recent projects.Below you will find a selections of my work of the last few years.
A spontaneous creation... I am still trying to recreate its circumstances.
Ingredients for such circumstances known so far: severe sleep deprivation, complete immersion, elevated sprit due to some inspiraton (inspiration of that day - learning of Noether's theorem)
First full scale attempt at oil painting.
Site: Ithaca Falls, Ithaca, NY
18"x24", Oil on canvas.
A failed painting... remains perhaps for decoration purposes.
Site: Wolf's Pond Park, Staten Island, NY
An etude focusing on the eyes. (Excuse the roughly-drawn lower half of the face and loosely filled-in canvas.) The eyes are of F. Murray Abraham playing the role of Salieri in "Amadeus". I caught this in one frame in a confession scene, in which he recalls the realization of his mediocrity: yearning for the divine while tied down to earth.
A study of an awkward sitting pose.
A study for a painting that was to capture a gesture of the chorus leader in "Antigone", performed at the Schwartz Center in Cornell in the fall of 2003.
What is wrong with the symmetry?
A more elaborate sketch of the gesture in study above.
The painting for which I was making the preparations shown above. Should I have stuck with a rough sketch? Well, at least I learned the value of spontaneity.
Yet another painting that lost its meaning before it was even complete.
An improvisation on a New York Times photograph relating to the report about Nemont Mining company's pollution of Buyat Bay in Indonesia.
The father's expression in the photograph speaks for itself, but I thought I would try to bring out some elements that seemed most important to me.
...a focus on intimate space, something that was a side theme in previous paintings.
A study based on an earlier painting with a step away from my usual texture and tones.