Evidence

I don’t recall what year I made this painting.  For the most part I’m bad with dates, although I associate certain paintings which exhibitions I showed them in, and that helps.  It was during what I suppose was some kind of period in transition for my work.  Evidence is a fairly big painting for me (those of you who know my paintings know that in recent years I’ve done mostly smaller paintings) – I think it’s about 6 feet wide. It’s painted with acrylics.

Evidence still resonates with me as a painting in which I was searching for something, searching for an image in amongst the  flotsam and jetsam which is my visual imagination.  It’s one of those paintings that just doesn’t seem to fit, and I don’t know if I’ll ever exhibit it. I’ve kept it here in storage, but I haven’t looked at the actual painting in some time. I was going through some photos tonight looking for something else when I came across it, so I thought I’d share.

It might be interesting to put together a show of oddball paintings one day, the ones that don’t fit neatly into a package. I have a few of those kicking around. Here’s another – this one from 1998. It’s called Terminal Beef. This painting has some elements of some earlier paintings I did, but to me it has an unsettling awkwardness that I’m both attracted to and repelled by. This is another painting I’ve held onto.