WORK
A dialectic between the geometric and the organic, the abstract and the figurative, the stark and the lush. Whacked my way through the jungle of conceptual vs. perceptual art; concluded that art begins more in the viscera than in the head. more from impulses than from ideas, more to recreate Eros than to make manifestoes, more to seduce than to shock. Synthesizing these theses and antitheses is the work in progress.
Epiphanies:
seeing correspondences among the blueprints my father drew for our houses, the models he fabricated, and the house he had built for our family; drawing from sculpture at the Athens agora, copying El Greco and Titian cubistically, à la Cézanne, every time I draw and paint (even commissioned portraits).
Trajectories:
from the narrative toward the "dance of life"; from the formal figurative toward the gestural; from the monochromatic and primary toward the coloristic and muted palette; and always toward more (discreet) texture in facture.
Constants:
Greek sculpture; Renaissance drawing and painting; certain French impressionists; abstract expressionists who know how to draw; close observation and drawing from life; rigorous composition; classical/neoclassical cues and subtexts.