COUNTING THE DAYS
2024 exhibition, McGuffey Art Center, Virginia
The paintings in this series, Counting the Days, begin with random marks and a loaded brush. Out of these forms, human shapes begin to assert themselves through constant drawing and redrawing. Finally, a mood or quality emerges. In these paintings, figures seem to be drawing breath in an atmosphere of
uneasy calm, as if they were counting the days, inching along toward a fatal edge. This foreboding tracks with a mood in our culture. And yet, these pensive faces and postures of repose also suggest an inner quiet – a fertile quiet that might with time reanimate us.
We have No Plans But We Have Plans to Have Plans in the Future
24″ x 30″
Housebound
24” x 24”
Soul Craft
24” x 30”
Ad Astra
18″ x 24″
Avatar
24″ x 18″
Catch
24″ x 24″
Maker
14″ x 14″
Dog Years
14” x 14”
Out Beyond the Hedgerows
30” x 40”
Vigil
30” x 40”
Mars v. Jupiter
24” x 30”
Time Flows Downhill
24″ x 18″
Bar Scene
12″ x 12″
Portrait
12″ x 12″
Stopping by Woods
24″ x 18″
Blue Line Strobe
30” x 40”
The Arrival
14” x 14”
Waiting Room
18” x 24”
Sitting Their Going
14″ x 14″
Biding Time
14″ x 14″
Life Boat
24″ x 24″
