Oil on canvas, sculpted foam
40 x 65 inches
March 2025
Oil on canvas, sculpted form, polished aluminum club
60 x 44 inches
March 2025
Captain Stricker
Oil on canvas over sculpted foam
58 x 42 x 4 inches
October 2024
love in the Ruins
Just a Dance II
Oil on canvas over sculpted foam
50 x 48 x 3 inches
October 2024
Faire L'Amour III
Oil on canvas over sculpted foam
50 x 40 x 5 inches
2023
Oil over sculpted material
55 x 70 x 4 inches
2024
BREED
Love’s alchemy kiln
Spectral vapors blaze
Her poised indifference an innocent plea
His sightless delirium increasing percent.
Resigned to believe, in memories film
Her shapeshift allure roils a spectral sea
His leaden command rises favor
A morphic breed suspended in torment.
Plum deep cadmium flowing bright
Ecstasy delayed and bliss denied
Emission occurs his eyes roll back
Her spawn emits aureolae light.
R.M.
7.22.2024
Dark Passenger
Oil on canvas over sculpted foam
64 x 43 x 4 inches
2023
Persone di Colore
Oil over sculpted material
48 x 58 x 3 inches
2024
Oil and resin on sculpted foam
50x 37 x 8 inches
2023
Three Bells
Just outside the back of his callused mind
compressed onto a shiny metal orb,
a conjured notion avoids, untethered.
Touch and felt impression hesitantly ignored.
Retinal cognition will assure its design
yet a plurality of faculty fails to absorb,
it’s weight, “not seen”, radius “lacks measure”.
The tally of gods denounces, yet a single eye implored.
With adjacent hemisphere’s approval maligned
and memory in denial, objectivity was poised to abhor,
a visceral slab of bone, powerfully descends in leather.
Its Celsius pulse, not in accord…
Under and behind fallen tears, streams combine
They splash and puddle, as losses scored,
He being diminished, himself the transgressor.
With thought and perception divergent, his future unmoored.
oil on canvas over sculpted foam on board
65 ht x 54 wd x 5 dpth inches
2023
Faire L'Amour II
Pain and desire invert posture momentarily, it began.
Under the weighty demand of hope, they
paused.
Loves laser light illumination,
ended.
Their negative double exposure reappeared before their existence in, the
past.
oil on canvas over sculpted foam on board
65 ht x 54 wd x 5 dpth inches
2022
STAR
The colliding background pieces of turquoise and cobalt violet on yellow were executed as separate designs, with less concern to supporting the overall composition. This approach is much different in a background than I might normally undertake.
My hope is to capture the viewers interest with the background first, possibly a default approach to pictorial success. I want the color here to be like food, the thick texture (feel) of the oil paint mixed with sand is equally important as the taste (hue),when held on the tongue.
Her foreshortened torso bent forward toward the viewer, while turning on axis upon one leg, allows the position of the other three limbs to pose with her stylized hair shape to form a five-pointed STAR.
I chose to wrap each point of the star in a ribbon of ultramarine oil,emphasizing the radial aspect of each arm, leg and hair. Later coating the surface with tiny crystals,(which may not be perceptible in this photograph).The crystal coating lightened the ultramarine hue effectively.
The five-pointed star, first appear in Egyptian iconography, later in Mesopotamian cuneiform , ultimately adopted to symbolize the western culture.
oil over sculpted media
60 ht x 48 wd x 6 dpth inches
2022
NEST
Love in the Ruins, a motif for the ages.
The Bald Eagle nestled inside the man; it embodies his relentless instinct to dominate ,forcing his prey to submit.
Seen here, aggressively seeking an exit. His lover it appears, will have none of it, exhilarated by its prowess. Her hand preventing the predator’s escape.
Or is her hand evicting the bird, thus taming her chosen mate.
Americans assign an array of attributes to this bird. Having observed them in their natural habitat they live up to these and more.
oil and mixed on canvas over board
frame copper wrapped over wood
60 ht x 72 wd x 7 dpth inches
2022
CULT OF ISIS
The Pharaoh Akhenaten is released from the soft protective wings of ISIS - a high queen of Egypt according to ancient Egyptian mythology. She presides as protector and consort of the dead.
The moment has arrived, she casts him gently in the direction of the opening in the tomb wall, he drifts toward the time-space continuum …. Anibus awaits.
Anibus, the dog-headed god presided over the mummification process, and now serves as guardian of the portal to the afterlife. The mortal king of Egypt is represented by the sculpted bust, but his immortal soul is not visible. Anibus will entrust the pharaoh unto Sekret in his journey through time.
In the foreground a mortal woman is poised, she offers herself to the assembled Cult of Isis. Anibus focuses the cosmic ray upon her, and she is transformed into Sekret.
The silver inlaid alchemist symbols, upon her limbs, entitle her unique human qualifications; allegiance, stealth, magik and healing.
Background: oil over canvas sculpted foam
Figure: oil over sculpted coated foam
Frame: brushed aluminum channel
65 x 43 x 4 inches
2020
JOYFUL
oil on canvas over sculpted foam, sculpted foam coated
frame copper wrapped over wood
72 x 50 x 5 inches
2020
UNDER HEAVEN
Ethereal mirror, azure surrounds
Longitudinal waves stream Verde and Lime
Love's, former purpose abandoned for now.
Rather, Jete' glissade intersects verve and time.
Imperial poise breaks the barrier of sound.
Heptagonal theorem, curves and angles align.
Thereof he who yearned, sadness endowed.
Gathered void in upturned palm, heaven's sign.
Material Lavender meanders her gown
Tangential vole', planter flexion defined.
Dove in flight, Avant beauty unbowed
Patter-Pitter brise', frappe refined.
Zeal la Turquoise transparent renown
Proverbial treasure of earth be mine.
Above and around brushed copper enshrouds.
Lathered flesh aloft, a body sublime.
oil on canvas over board
sculpted foam, copper stool, polished bronze hairoak frame
62 × 52 inches
2019
VIOLET SEA
oil on canvas over board
resin water, sculpted foam, oak frame
80x46 inches
2020
STREAM OF DREAMS
Eddies unspool fine scarlet strings,
Cantilevered spine, immersion begins.
Alizarin crimson untwines, Dolly Vardan collides.
In playful sport, they seek and hide.
Arching vertebrae of myth and bone,
protect Cutthroat and German Brown alone.
Fauve fingertips stake metacarpal cape.
anointed sediment touched, cause crustacean unsafe.
~
Knitted steeple bows above, shadow stream’s floor,
swift music hums, ‘yearning amore’.
Violet muse, the wandering kind
dwelling in mist, ether, and mind.
Perpetual dream in an endless night
awake nor dead, matters naught.
Craving Hooved beast, her fantasy sought,
A lone Satyr tenderly caught.
Bosom’s warm cauldron now to restore,
Brook trout ascend and Rainbows soar.
~
Feminine muse, ERATO wanders free,
child of powerful Zeus, and Mnemosyne.
Cloned of dorsal fishes, with shape-shifting allure,
irresistible force, stalking centaur procured.
Appeased alas, she enters the creek,
Siren’s magnetism, Aphrodite’s beauty competes,
prefers teasing trout, shiny and sleek.
~
ERATO traversed centuries of depiction,
Appears here alas in oil paints lustrous fine fiction,
Artist fingers pinch brush, a conception in paint, depicting sleeps intricate vision.
Where Species swim glazed with careful precision.
Muse in supple forms tying Grayling tatted fin,
sojourning continues her legend of sin.
The painter unseen at vanishing point, behind dream’s pale light,
Dwelling place of one artist acolyte.
2019
70x50x6 inches
Oil on canvas over sculpted foam, painted aluminum mesh skirt
WINE AND CHEESE
2019
80x50X6 inches
Oil on canvas over sculpted foam, figure sculpted foam with hardened patina.
Faire L'Amour
2018
80x50X6 inches
Oil on canvas ,over sculpted foam on panel, three dimensional ,sculpted female, polished bronze hair
Signed by artist lower left front, signed dated back
Magdalena
Her pose is self-reflective, Magdalena is internalized and self-possessed. Her back turned to the artist and the viewer; she cares not. She is contemplative and self-aware, John Paul’s Mona Lisa.
A mighty expanse of alizarin crimson blood flows within; carrying teardrop forms, the lime colored forms, highlighted with zinc yellow.
These forms, her protean DNA, emerge from a winding internal canyon of deep burgundy, which defines the perimeter of her body in the picture. The forms are buoyant, gathering upward, seeking to manifest the woman in the world; another victory in sport or profession, or another loving act as wife and friend. This is my child.
A spring palette surrounds her. The twenty-five carved pieces of canvas are interposed to undulate and counterpoint one another, ever redirecting the viewers’ attention back to the subject, forming a colliding garden of moving components around her. In the background, textural spring floral oil paint mixed with sand flutters and stumbles across an azure hue of pale blue sky behind.
A competitive swimmer and triathlete, I have watched Magdalena remove her swim cap on the pool deck a hundred times after a race. Her long dark burnt umber hair would fall onto and through a waiting hand as she briefly groomed it and strained the water out . The long-mirrored shock of hair arises from the nape of her neck, arches over her head and passes down the length of a strong athletic torso and leg.
Effortlessly kneeling and passively stretching a limb, the cascade of polished bronze reaches her lower femur, It curves inward toward the other leg. I intend this long bronze metal shape to be perceived as a path of energy, originating in her spiritual center and returning to her lower body, thereby sustaining a continuum of graceful repose.