COURTS HONOR FEATS
46” x 69” • SOLD
“Paint me like one of your sparkling mineral water girls…” A lot of Texas summer going on here, from that Topo bottle opener to the vintage 1996 Champion USA Basketball Olympic windbreaker.
LONE STAR LIGHT
48” x 54”
Light cast in a Texas kitchen while drinking Lone Stars. From the same day which inspired the VESTALIA painting sold last year.
*Work in Progress. Needs a moderate level of finishing. Could be ready within a week.
A DREAM THAT YOU CAN’T RIDE
48” x 64”
Set on a carousel at Lincoln Park Zoo, the second. smaller piece in a three-part series. The first now resides in Austin, Texas. These pictures explore the conflicting moods and remembrances of childhood while nearing the age of 30 on the encumbering pivot to professional adulthood.
*Work in Progress – in situ at a Home Tour site where it is presently on loan. Needs retrieval and minor finishing, could be ready in two weeks.
IT’S TIME FOR YOU (TO GET USED TO YOU)
34” x 55”
The final of the three Chicago paintings in the series A DREAM THAT YOU CAN’T HIDE. These pictures explore the conflicting moods and remembrances of childhood while nearing the age of 30 on the encumbering pivot to professional adulthood.
Don’t like to play favorites with pictures, yet this series forced a major step in maturation of my painting process.
*Work in Progress – Needs very minor finishing, could be ready in three days.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS III
20” x 30” on board
2015-2018
The last available piece of a series of four paintings on cradled wooden panels. These began on Elvis’ birthday in 2015. Island splashes. Blue Hawaii.
TAKE IT BACK
60” x 72”
In the style many are used to seeing from me, a classic rendition with deep, vibrating texture from field to ground.
ODE TO BIG SURF*
48” x 54”
The last of the paintings I worked on in Arizona during a four-month stay in Arizona. Painted outdoors, complete with a faint texture of desert sand and dust. This piece was an ode to the first indoor wave pool in North America, Big Surf in Tempe, AZ. It’s not only the 50th anniversary of Big Surf, but its inventor and builder Phil Dexter passed away at 87 in 2019 while I was camped out in the Valley. This place was a summer landmark when I was a kid. Floyd even played there on the Dark Side of the Moon tour. Beach Boys too.
*This painting was purchased by a collector in Tulsa, who later chose to have two companion paintings of a similar size commissioned to fit their walls more perfectly. That pair was titled ODES TO BIG SURF II & III. In the process I repurposed the original canvas due to texture issues. This same or similar design could be recreated in a custom size, and would be retitled as ODE TO BIG SURF IV
FIRST FRUIT OF A NEW SEASON I
47” x 49”
The painting on the far right is from a four-part series I completed in 2002. It’s the oldest piece I have available, demonstrating the early approaches leading to my current style of pictures.
UNTITLED MIXED MEDIA ON BOARD I-IV
8” x 10” • SOLD
These sold with $100 per piece going to support a local business with a long history. They were robbed Easter weekend 2020 — at a point where Corona shut-downs had reduced their cashflow to giftcard and merch sales.
THE DREAM ROOM
48” x 60”
Something a little less monumental, yet still ready to fill up large wall space.
AIN’T GOT NO LINES
48” x 64”
Since 2015 I’ve been painting a thematic series of close-space relational pictures chronicling my peripatetic roaming across the Texas and beyond. A lot has been made of the push/pull relationship of photography and painting for nearly 150 years. Similarly, the oversharing of social media and the camera phone nearly always being on hand has shaped how we see photography and images. This isn’t that.
I carried a camera most the times I left the house for years. And where allowed, it entered into spaces that are often left unrevealed. Once the intrusion dulled, the people around me began to unveil themselves. The first of these larger paintings completed in 2015 featured a young woman’s back, seated on a cushion over a chevron rug. A different time and place also captured a woman’s back over a different chevron rug in a different space. The call-back of the pattern and perspective links the works.
In the moments referenced in this picture she was on the phone with the local dealership scheduling a service. In a moment she was Botticelli’s Venus — if Venus had a Mazda in need of an oil change. Yes, her hair was truly that long. Longer than anyone I’ve ever met.
*Work in Progress — Indeterminate, could be a week or a couple of months.
CAT ON A RUG
12” x 12” on Linen on Panel
Work in progress.