Two Horses, 2023
Pencil on Paper
12”x18”
Garden of Pansies, 2023
Oil on gessoed canvas
36"x36"
Elder Alkonis, 2022
Tom of Finland clipping and LDS missionary name tag
5"x8"
“There is no spiritual. There is the concrete and the abstract.” - Agnes Martin
“Inspiration is a command.” - Agnes Martin
“The canvas is an arena in which to act, rather than a space in which to reproduce. Not a picture but an event.” -Harold Rosenberg
"The actual work of art is what the product does with and in experience." - John Dewey
“This is not optimism. It is a rejection of self pity I hope.” - Frank O’Hara
“Neither art nor artist have a moral responsibility to liberal social causes.” - Camille Paglia
“There is no such thing as abstraction. It is extraction, gravitation toward a certain direction, and minding your own business.” - Arthur Dove
“There is no point in being realistic. There is no realism now. Life is not real. It is strange.” - Gertrude Stein
The duty of the artist is to “unleash a state of mind.” - Elaine de Kooning
“I am going to work in order to see myself and free myself.” - Agnes Martin