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​"UNTITLED", COMMERCIAL VARATHANE AND RHOPLEX ON RAW CANVAS, 1973.

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THE  WORK I DO IS OFTEN RELATED TO THE RADICAL PAINTING GROUP. I MET WITH  THEM IN THE EARLY 80'S AND HAVE SHOWN WITH DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE  GROUP SINCE THEN. I DO  MOMOCHROME PIECES THAT ARE SHOWN​ ALONE;   SOMETIMES I SHOW MORE THAN ONE PANEL CREATING A COMPOSITION ON THE  WALL; THE PAINTINGS CAN BE SEPARATE OR JOINED;  I ALSO MAKE SHAPPED  PIECES.

 

PRIMAL  FORMS HAVE PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN MY PHILOSOPHY .  IN MY STUDENT  YEARS I BECAME INTERESTED IN THE FORMS THAT ARE SEEN IN ALL CULTURES;  THE SQUARE, THE CIRCLE, THE CROSS, THE VESICUS PICES, THE SPIRAL, AND THE  FOUR AND THE NINE SQUARE DIVISION OF A SQUARE.  I AM NOT INTERESTED IN  THE ATTATCHED MEANING TO THESE FORMS ; FOR MYSELF THE CROSS IS NOT A  CHRISTIAN SYMBOL , IT IS A UNIVERSAL FORM.  SINCE 1974 MY PALETTE HAS  PRIMARLY BEEN LIMITED TO THE PRIMARIES AND BLACK AND WHITE; THERE ARE  SOME VARIATIONS.


IN  1982 I HAD THE IDEA FOR A WHITE SQUARE PAINTING; I MADE ONE THAT YEAR.  THE PAINTING CAME TO REPRESENT THE FUSION OF AN INTERIOR WHITE SQUARE  PLANE WITH THE SQUARE PLANE OF THE PAINTING. THE INTERIOR PLANE AND THE  PAINTING PLANE BECAME ONE; THIS BECAME THE BASIS FOR FOR MY WORK.

RADICAL  PAINTING GROUP IN FRONT OF JULIAN PRETTO'S LOFT IN TRIBECA, C. 198O.  L.TO R., ERIK SAXON, PHIL SIMS, MERRILL WAGNER, DALE HENRY, DOUG   SAN​DERSON, SUSANNA TANGER,  ANDERS KNUTSSON, MARCIA HAFIF, JERRY  ZENIUK, FRED THURZ. NOT PRESENT: JOSEPH MARIONI AND OLIVIER MOSSET. 

​GRAPHITE ON HMP PAPER, 2005.

GRAPHITE ON HMP PAPER, 2005.

BLACK CROSS, OIL ON MASONITE PANEL, 1980.

BLACK CROSS, OIL ON MASONITE PANEL, 1980.

WHITE SQUARE, OIL ON LINEN, 1982.

VIDEO OF EXHIBITION AT MINUS SPACE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 2011.

1987 EXHIBIT AT RAUM FUR MALEREI, KOLN, DR. VIDEO: ANNEBARBE KAU. 

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