Miniature and Multiple

I've just started a new series of paintings! The work is a formal return to what I was doing a few years ago - simplified and stylized female figures that are a little stilted, but the new paintings remind me of miniature painting or illustration as well. I'm including some images of the ones I have finished bellow.

I've been interested in the idea of 'repetition and revision' since I first read Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play. I'm see it as the way simple iteration changes meaning over time. Restating or reappearing alters experience. I've never found a way to really address it through paintings always represent originals. Scaling down the size in these works allows me to address multiples and repetitive details.

2010. Lead. Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, 24" x 24."

2010. Lead, detail. Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, 24" x 24."

2010. Tilt. Oil, acrylic, pencil on canvas, 17" x 20."

Graphite

I've been getting back into drawing (not just sketching in preparation for paintings) after what feels like a ten year hiatus. Here's some of the finished ones I'm liking:

New Studio

It's a new yew and now I have a new studio to go with it! We just moved to a new spacious apartment, which includes a half bedroom I'm using as a studio! I'd forgotten how great it is to have a separate space for art! I'm still setting up shop, but here are some preview pix:

in progress . . .

I finally broke down and bought a moleskine. Totally worth it.

. . . and more new work

Flickr

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Paint

Working on new bunch of paintings. I'll keep adding the new images as I make 'em.