The title of this show is "Story Line." I find that each painting has its own character and I see a resonance of a personal story in each one. I think that being abstract they have a lot of power. Also, there is power in their scale. The images are bigger than the actual size of the panel because they’re so frontal. They sort of fly off the edges and there is a lot of energy in these paintings.
People ask a lot about how these are made. Some of them come easier than others. This one is an abstract expressionist painter’s dream because It came in 3 or 4 moves. But it also comes after a lot of labor in the other paintings until one day it just clicks.
When I talk about energy in these paintings, a lot of it is about how they were drawn. This one you can read the way it was drawn. With the layers, the yellow line and the blue one. Which comes first? Which comes last? It's hard to say and I can’t remember myself sometimes. Because they are so interwoven. The line is so embedded with itself. The think about working with line is that it creates it’s own space. This is one that came very easily and when I say that I mean it came directly. Where I chose just the right background color and the lines played off each other easily. It’s what every artist wished to happen especially working abstract. For it to just move like a piece of music.
This one was painted very differently. There’s a lot of underpainting. This red line is of course much more than just one line, its lines embedded inside of lines in many layers. That’s where the texture comes from.
