I have just added a new gallery for 2015 – 2016 and posted new work in it. Take a look.

As I write this I am listening to Hermeto Pascoal’s “Slaves Mass.” Earlier this afternoon I was reading David Byrne’s book “How Music Works.” I had just finished a piece for a fundraiser when I realized that how I am painting now owes a lot to music. By adding brushstrokes onto brushstrokes in an assigned space, about 2/3 up the picture plane, my process...

Working on two painting that are a part of the Elegy for Heaven series.

Soon I will be publishing new images of my latest work. The new work is a continuation of series I originally called Elegy for Heaven. I recently published short videos on YouTube that show me working on two of the pieces.

At the opening of my show at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque a guest began asking me about my process. I explained that much of the process lies in trying to lose control in that I try not to think and let my hand and arm work independently. This is based on psychic automatism a creative method developed and used by the Surrealists and by Robert...

During the years 2013 – 2014 I worked on a series of acrylic paintings called Rinconada. Its a Spanish word for a box(ed) canyon. Yesterday, while working on automatic drawings, I noticed that a tall rectangular void started appearing in the drawings. Keeping with the idea of doing automatic drawings but incorporating that void and realized that was...

When I started working in 1990s with psychic automatism and what I now call automatic gesture drawings I came up with an image of a disc hanging precariously from a thread. I struggled with a name for the object / series until a colleague mentioned they looked yo-yoish. I dropped the yo-yo part but keep the ish because I felt they, the objects, had a...