Throwback Thursday

“Ed” 22" x 28" oil on canvas 2007

This is a portrait of my brother, Ed. There is a 3" wide strip of flat white on the right side of this painting that interrupts and abruptly stops the illusion. I then layered a pale red square on top of the picture plane, covering both the illusion and the flat white area, I began to play around even more with the picture plane, layering graphic imagery on top and within the piece, in my following work. In this series, the figure always seems to be only vaguely aware, if at all, of the intermixing realities going on around it. I’m still trying to sort out what that means, As most artists, I work intuitively, and then strive to find the meaning of what my intuition is coming up with.