Friday, August 26, 2011

Two Paintings For The G.W. Exhibit

Autumn Fields, Loudoun County
 oil on canvas  52" x 60"

Fogbound
 oil on canvas  52" x 52"

These are two of three paintings that I'll have at the Alumni Exhibit for the George Washington University - being held at their Northern Virginia Campus. If this painting is anything at all, it is the tangible record of simply letting myself enter in to a celebration of being alive in one place at a given moment - a kind of transcendance out of oneself, into the place. Abstract or representational, the best painting allows for this - it is what de Kooning was talking about when he said, "The best we can hope for is to bring some order into ourselves".  Perhaps on my best days this is accomplished.

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