PHILADELHIA PAINTINGS
You can still see the show here at the studio and get a painting!
This solo show was at EAT (Everyone at the Table) Cafe, a nonprofit, pay-what-you-can café in West Philadelphia. In keeping with EAT Café’s pay-what-you-can model, I am offering these paintings on a sliding scale, to make them more accessible. I’m asking for between half and once and a half what I normally sell them for. I'm also open to bartering or other creative solutions to find these paintings homes with people who would love living with them.
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Away From/Home at High Point Cafe
602 Carpenter Lane, May 31 to August 10, 7am to 5pm every day
I’ve noticed that lately the objects I crave painting are about home: coming home, leaving home, transcending home. They are about the familiar and the beyond, nesting and flying. They are about love and family, and the big wheel of time turning. They are about living in a world that is unknowable.
In observing this unknowable world, in and out of the studio, I keep returning to two essential truths. One is impermanence: everything is always changing. The other is unity: every single thing is always related to every single other thing, so everything is always the same.
Painting is one of the ways I wear down my own resistance to these truths. Working from observation, I am a transient creature honoring the totality of a passing moment. Each painting makes the world anew, a new web of interlocking, interdependent relationships.
Realist painting’s sleight of hand is ideally suited to this task. Painting’s first magic trick, turning a two-dimensional jigsaw puzzle of light shapes and shadow shapes into three-dimensional forms, creates its second magic trick, transforming those forms into metaphor and meaning. This double trick makes painting the perfect language for celebrating another unique and irreplaceable now.
I am grateful to share the ongoing mystery and paradox of being here with everyone and everything that is. I am grateful for the work of painting: using the seen to look for the unseeable.