Crowds on canvas

Drones

acrylic on canvas
72x40

2000

Standing in the metro tunnel downtown Seattle during the morning commute, I looked around and saw the crowd around me.  We stood together with lifeless eyes, expressionless faces, waiting to get on a bus to get to our cubicles. This was the inspiration for the crowd paintings.  An earlier painting I had done for some friends also inspired how the crowds woud look. 

Elijah vs Prophets of Baal

acrylic on canvas

1999

The Salmon and the Sheep

acrylic on canvas

10x40

2001

Blinded by Greed

acrylic and coins on canvas

2001

This one was a part of a bigger piece that I had done for a UNICEF benefit show.  I really wasn't happy with the piece when I brought it to the gallery but I had just made the deadline.  After the show ended and I brought this home, and cut it into pieces. The resulting fragments were more successful. 

Commuter

mixed media in wax

2002

Ok, so this isn't a crowd, but it was one of three pieces where the other two were crowds. Unfortunately I didn't get an image of the other two before they were sold at a benefit auction in Denver. 

Rat Trap

acrylic on canvas

2 panels 50x60 each

2001-2002

Crucifixion

mixed media on canvas

38x44

2003-2004

The figures on the crosses are painted plaster. For the crowd I used an image transfer process using the following two photographs. One representing humility and repentance, and the other a prideful fuck-you. 

Maps

Trade Routes

Acrylic on canvas

20x20

2003

The idea for this series began while reading Lord of the Rings.  These aren't maps of Middle Earth or even anywhere on our Earth, but "lands" that developed organically on each canvas.

Tundra

acrylic on canvas

34x36

2004

Peninsula

acrylic on canvas

30x54

2004

Farmlands

acrylic on canvas

35x46

2004

Islands 1

acrylic on canvas board

8x10

2006

Islands 2

acrylic on canvas board

8x10

2006

Islands 3

acrylic on canvas board

8x10

2006

Leer

Starting with this quick sketch....

Leer

Oil on Flannel

48x52

The Stargate

It started with a picture frame.

I received this picture frame as a white elephant gift at a Christmas party a few years back. I liked the movie, never really got into the tv show, but wasn't fanboy enough to put a photo in this and place it on a shelf.  The idea that it could be useful kept it from Value Village, or another white elephant exchange.

A cast was made and put together two gates. The hard part was to make a tube of light to connect the gates. After several failed attempts I finally made a hollow resin tube, connected it to the gates, stuffed it with lights, plugged it in, and years of working on my Stargate came to an end.