2015

2D


Desperately trying to figure out 2D/painting while living anxiously in NY (see also 2014, 2016)




Caroline


H9" × W12"
Oil on gessobord
H228.6 × W304.8 mm
油絵、ジェッソボード

Traveling feels often like dreaming---surreal and fragmented. I sourced Caroline and Antwerpen from my own photographs a few years ago taken in Europe, to somehow make sense of the physical places that I inhabited briefly and to where I often revisit mentally.





Antwerpen


H11” × W14”
Oil on gessobord
H279.4 × W355.6 mm
油絵、ジェッソボード




Untitled (still from The Power of the Witch, 1971)


H5” × W5”
Oil on gessobord
H127 × W127 mm
油絵、ジェッソボード





1995|2009


H5” × W7”
Oil on gessobord
H127 × W177.8 mm
油絵、ジェッソボード





Untitled


H16” × W20”
oil on gessobord
H406.4 × W508 mm
油絵、ジェッソボード




Is


H5” × W5”
Oil on wood panel
H8” × W10”
Oil on gessobord
H127 × W127 mm
油絵、木材パネル
H203.2 × W254 mm
油絵、ジェッソボード




自分の赤い糸


Black and red thread on canvas
7" stained hoop
黒、赤の糸、キャンバス、
直径177.8 mmの刺繍枠





This isn't my future


Black, yellow, and red thread on canvas
5" diameter hoop
黒、黄色、赤の糸、キャンバス、
直径127 mmの刺繍枠





Untitled


Black thread on white cotton
4" diameter hoop
黒い糸、コットン、
直径101.6 mmの刺繍枠
Collaboration with Kauri Sievers as part of The Sketchbook Project 2015 to capture the myriad of customers at a popular ramen restaurant that we both had worked at.

Full scans

Encounters

Pencil, pen, oil, ink, watercolor, paper
Approx. 7'× 5'9"


2133.6 × 1752.6 

A growing archive of everyone I know in person begun in 2010. I attempt to “collect” every single person that I have met face to face. Some drawings are done from observation, others from social media such as Facebook. Deciding whom to add is an organic process in which I wait for an urge to draw a specific person to come. I'm interested/fascinated by the impact and number of personal relationships/interactions a person can leave in their existence. ︎︎︎




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