Drones
acrylic on canvas
72x40
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.
