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Interstate 80 Detail. Oil on canvas, 29"X40"
My paintings capture a sense of place and time: the American West and the Age of Oil. The roadside motels and diners, gas stations and vehicles that fuel my depictions are the iconic outposts of a previous century. In the spare landscape and small towns of the West, post-World War II architecture, signage and design are rendered as monoliths, deifying America at the height of its power. My work is a celebration of a time before planned obsolescence, the last vestiges of craftsmanship and things well made in a country racing to put the first man on the moon. I paint monuments to places rapidly disappearing in the rush toward urban renewal, a memento mori of a bygone era.
Interstate 80 Detail. Oil on canvas, 29"X40"
My paintings capture a sense of place and time: the American West and the Age of Oil. The roadside motels and diners, gas stations and vehicles that fuel my depictions are the iconic outposts of a previous century. In the spare landscape and small towns of the West, post-World War II architecture, signage and design are rendered as monoliths, deifying America at the height of its power. My work is a celebration of a time before planned obsolescence, the last vestiges of craftsmanship and things well made in a country racing to put the first man on the moon. I paint monuments to places rapidly disappearing in the rush toward urban renewal, a memento mori of a bygone era.