I recently finished a new painting entitled, Any Which Way.

Any Which Way, acrylic on panel, 24x24 inches, 2009

I recently finished a painting I’m calling “Secondary Process”.  Enjoy!  The term “secondary process” is a Freudian term, with many sort of confusing definitions on the Internet, though I like this one.  In this case, I’m using it to refer to the use of secondary colors (along with optical primaries) in a structured way within the painting.  Several years ago I titled a painting “Primary Process” which only made use of red, green, and blue.

Secondary Process, acrylic on panel, 30x30 inches, 2009

This Sunday is the opening reception for the March group show at Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville  (32 Coryell St, Lambertville, NJ).  Unlike most previous openings, this one takes place on a Sunday afternoon, from 2-6pm. This month’s theme is Madness, “an exhibition exploring chaos, passion, and general craziness,” mostly not related to basketball.

I’m exhibiting four paintings and two photographs.  The paintings  include Affordances, Figment, and a recent completion, Points of View:

Points of View (2009), acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 inches

Among the photographs I’m exhibiting is “Crazy Roots”, taken in Central Park several years ago:

Crazy Roots, photograph, 10x8 inches

I’m happy to share with you another new painting — completed just a couple of days ago — entitled Moving Forward.

Moving Forward, acrylic on panel, 24x24 inches, 2009

I’ve recently finished several paintings that I’ve been working on over the first six weeks of the new year and am now finally getting a chance to post them online.  First up is a painting that I finished in January entitled Affordances.

Affordances, acrylic on panel, 24"x24", 2009

I’ve just finished a new painting entitled, “Entanglement” (acrylic on canvas, 36″x36″, 2008):

It’s a little bit tough to capture this painting accurately on screen, as I’m using some paints that look different depending upon the light and the viewing angle.  Specifically, the underpainting includes a copper metallic paint that at some angles is a very saturated copper-red/orange, while at other angles is much more reflective of any incident light.  When you look at the work from the side, other features appear in a dark red that are not apparent in this photo.

The term “Entanglement” here refers to a property in quantum physics, as well as the nature of just about any relationship in the larger world.

I’ve been working on this self-portrait for the last few weeks and have finally gotten it to where I think it’s finished.  This is acrylic on canvas, 48″x24″.

I’ve just finished a new painting.  This is a portrait of my father.  It’s 20″x16″, acrylic on panel, painted with the new Golden OPEN Acrylics (these are a new formulation of acrylic paint that stays open and workable much longer than traditional acrylics, facilitating paintings like this one where smooth blending is required).

I’ve just finished a painting entitled, “Arising” (30 x 30 inches, acrylic on panel).

I’ve just finished another painting in the “Strange Loops” series.  In this one, I’ve tessellated an overlapping triangular pattern, turned it into a loop, and then painted it with color progressions in such a way that you might detect a slight rotating motion if you look at the painting’s periphery.  (It’s a very weak version of a documented kind of optical illusion called the Peripheral Drift Illusion or the Fraser-Wilcox illusion; for an incredibly strong version of this effect, see Akiyoshi.)