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Accumulations of millions of tiny bits of color, attempting to cope with apprehensions about things exponentially proliferating in the world.
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Analytical Delaunay mesh lines incised into thick, painterly expressions of particular assets of the landscape.
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Optically derived colors poured over sculptural forms reflect the local landscape, paying simultaneous homage to nature as well as technology.
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Playing creator, explorer, and documenter of virtual landscapes with the use of GIS and terrain generating software, new responses to the landscape are generated with forms ranging from trompe l’oeil realistic photos and animations to painted geometric abstractions.
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Through a process of controlled accident, countless splatters of (primarily of transparent drops of cyan, magenta, and yellow) acrylic paint express the night views from space of various cities.
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Paintings based on false-color satellite images of Tehran, Iran and Washington, D.C., along with a mini-retrospective of other related work at Lawrimore Project, Seattle
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Paintings inspired by a single NASA Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) photo taken of Baghdad on the morning of March 31, 2003.
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VIRTUALLY SUBLIME
Washington State, USA, 2006Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, 2006
Video Installation and large scale painting project questioning the painter’s notion of the sublime in the landscape through contemporary technology of satellite imaging and digital mapping processes.
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CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPES
Washington State, USA, 2005Moses Lake Museum and Art Center, Moses Lake, WA, 2005
A site-specific exhibition of the Moses Lake landscape, painted remotely from Internet satellite images.
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Paintings on PVC roofing material of images, primarily of the Middle East from where I had recently returned, clipped out of my rural Washington hometown newspaper during the summer of 2004.
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Paintings and sculptures exploring the fine line between the exquisite and the horrific.
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INSIDE LOOKING OUT
Pretoria, S. Africa/Cairo, Egypt, 2001American University in Cairo, Egypt, 2001
Landscapes of Pretoria and Cairo painted from direct observation through colored and patterned glass.
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MEDITATIONS ON AESTHETICS
Cairo, Egypt/Rome, Italy 1999-2000American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy 1999, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2000, Gezira Art Center and Museum, Cairo, Egypt, 2000, Broward County Community College, 2003
Abstract and literal at the same time, these paintings take an unflinching look at the detritus found on the streets of Cairo, subjects inherently disturbing or unpleasant but having exquisite formal and aesthetic values.
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SCROLLS
Fort Collins, CO, 1998Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Gallery, Fort Collins, 1998, Colorado State University Directions Gallery, Fort Collins, 1998, Gezira Art Center and Museum, Cairo, Egypt, 2000
Large paintings, made from a process of staining unprimed, un-stretched canvases, exploring traditional Japanese formal and philosophical concerns.
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SCREENS AND SCULPTURAL PAINTINGS
Fort Collins, CO, 1997-1998Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 1998
Large scale screens and sculpturally installed landscape paintings exploring combinations of form and aesthetics from American and Japanese inspiration.
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Abstracted landscapes.
