Working on the title piece for my exhibition "Radiator" at Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Seattle this Fall.

The show will run October 18 - December 1. I will be there for the Reception on November 1 and doing an

Artist Talk, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2pm.

Maggie Hubbard, who has been working with me on this painting took the photo.

Revelator, acrylic on panel, 13" X 10"

private collection, New York City.

This painting is finished, although if you compare this photo with the two from earlier states (see images in comments below) you might wonder since this one seems more abraded... more unmade than made. Because it is.

The first two color states that I've include give a sense of a primary way I paint: using dry brush. Working on an image like this, simulating a blur, is generally very labor intensive. Part of what interests me about this method is the phenomenological tension between an image (the source photo) that is the product of a very brief moment (perhaps a one second exposure) and the painted "replication) that gives evidence of many many seconds.

But then sometimes I sand a painting. As much as with any painting I've made the sanding of this painting radically upended the tension just mentioned. The evidence of the brush's caress just spoken of is gone. Suddenly I'm holding something that, seemingly, I didn't make. That is, there is a curious psychological shift that the sanding of the surface—largely eradicating brush marks—produces.

One thing the sanding emphasizes is the horizontal seam marking the meeting of the two parts of the underlying, long gone acrylic transfer. The resulting line has various potential readings: a border of some sort.

The "Radiator" project which was recently shown at Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Seattle is heading north where it will be shown at the Fort Gallery in Fort Langley, BC (yes, Canada). The exhibition runs February 1-24. The opening reception is February 8, 7-9pm. There will be another reception which I will be at on Friday, February 22, 7pm. If you are in the area or if you know anyone in the Vancouver vicinity that you think might be interested please pass the word on.

www.fortgallery.ca/upcoming-shows.html

Incidentally, the above is a cropped version of the painting Radiator.

"Regarder", 2018, 18" x 27", acrylic on panel

Private collection, Seattle

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The title of this work could be understood as "one who regards" or (French) watch / to look at / pay attention to.

This painting is still in process. The plan is that it will be in color, although I really like it in this relatively monochromatic state. This will be part of my upcoming exhibition with Koplin Del Rio Gallery this Fall. The show will run October 18 - December 1. I will be there for the Reception on November 1 and doing an

Artist Talk, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2pm.

Once again, I'm curious what one word title starting with the letter R do you think would be fitting for the painting as you see it here. While the person depicted in each of these paintings is my daughter Temma I have intentionally chosen images that differ from each other is in various ways. The title of the exhibition–and of the largest painting (currently under way) in the group–is "Radiator". My intention with choosing the images I have and the eventual titles is to reflect on different kinds of (perhaps mystical) agency that Temma (who is "profoundly disabled") has.

"Radiator", 2018, 48" x 117", acrylic on panel

Assistance with the production of this work by Maggie Hubbard.

On the morning of April 10, 2018, after tending to my daughter Temma and while standing by her bed, the word “Radiator” came to mind. I liked the word in relation to my experience of Temma who–like a radiator–is relatively static in her presence and yet radiates a kind meaningfulness that belies that stasis. I took a series of photograph of Temma there as she lay in bed: starting the photographing at one end and moving parallel to the bed. Those images–all seeing from straight ahead–were then assembled to create an image that complicates and supersedes our experience of seeing from one place at one time (since one is seeing everything in the resulting image as if from eight different locations at the same time–all straight in front). I did this photographing process a number of times over the following weeks until the version that I ended up using for the painting came along. On that day at the end of that particular photographing session it occurred to me to take the braid (beautiful as it was!) out of Temma’s hair and that tumbling torrent of her hair said “now!”. So it began.

The other paintings in the Radiator project were based on photoworks I had taken previously, each of which suggested (at least to me) some way in which Temma has a kind of (perhaps mystical) agency. The titles are intended to suggest that agency with a single word beginning with R–the latter “limitation” perhaps mirroring the apparently obvious limitation of this profoundly disabled thirty-three year old woman.

A detail of the large painting that I am currently finishing which along with six smaller works will comprise an exhibition with Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Seattle this Fall (10.18 - 12.1).

Reviver, acrylic on panel, 9.2" X 14"

While the person depicted in each of these paintings is my daughter Temma I have intentionally chosen images that differ from each other is in various ways. The title of the exhibition–and of the largest painting (currently under way) in the group–is "Radiator". My intention with choosing the images I have and the eventual titles is to reflect on different kinds of (perhaps mystical) agency that Temma (who is "profoundly disabled") has.

The Radiator project is up at Koplin Del Rio in Seattle through December 1.

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"Riveter", 36" X 24" acrylic on panel

This is the second to the largest painting in the Radiator project. The title perhaps reflects a kind of precise focus that Temma brings to the lives of those who accompany her.

Resounder, 2018, 16" x 12.5", acrylic on panel.

If you have been following the progress of the Radiator project as I have been posting it over the last few months you will probably recognize this image. It is in fact a new variation on "Reflector", the last painting I finished before the exhibition opened. I struggled mightily with the making of "Reflector" and while I think that it is a good painting it still feels somewhat problematic from my perspective. So I decided to revisit the image. The title "Resounder" had been suggested (by Susan Langeland on FB) for the earlier painting and I really liked that title, but it seemed better suited to a more monochromatic painting: one that seems to reference a deep history.

2021 update: I turned "Resounder" on it's side and it became "Rester"

Receptor, 2018, acrylic on panel, 17" x 17". Private collection.

Thanks for all the title suggestions when I asked upon initially posting this painting.

This will be one of seven paintings in my exhibition "Radiator" with Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Seattle this Fall.