Industrial Landscapes Factories with billowing smoke have always fascinated me. Symbolically, they represent our ability to alter natural landscapes while consuming raw materials, in my work, they represent manmade pollution.
Industrial landscapes provide an opportunity to edit architecture with atmosphere while creating images that look familiar but are total fantasy. Using gold and copper leaf between layers of transparent oil paint creates an optic not achievable with direct painting--my goal is to sensitize the viewer into acknowledging the good and bad side of industry --to consider how modern consumption patterns have a direct effect on the natural world.
Pollution, 50x44 inch, oil with gold leaf on linen, 1990
Industrial Night, 20x26 inch, oil with gold and copper leaf on linen, 1997
Abandoned, 48x42 inch, oil on linen, 1992
Blue Smoke, 25x39 inch, oil with gold and metal leaf on linen, 1998
Industrial Fragment, 36x31 inch, oil with gold and copper leaf, 1998
Clean Air Opus I, 43x49 inch, oil with gold and cu leaf on linen, 1998
Industrial Clouds, 34x38 inch, oil with gold and copper leaf on linen, 2003. Collection of the Academy of Sciences.
Industrial Thalo, 32x30 inch, oil with gold and copper leaf on linen, 2009
Prophetic Skies, 44x28 inch, oil with gold leaf on linen, 1991
Industry, 30x38 inch, oil with gold leaf on linen, 2005
Industry, 18x15 inch, oil with gold leaf on linen , 2005
Industry, 14x12 inch, oil with gold leaf on linen , 2005
Industry, 14x12 inch, oil with gold leaf on linen, 2005
Oz, 25x39 inch, oil with gold and copper leaf on linen, 1998
Industry, 32x23 inch, oil with gold leaf on linen, 2016. Collection of George Washington University.
Pollution Yellow Skies, 22x27 inch, oil with gold and copper leaf on linen, 1991
Like Wild Horses, 28x52 inch, oil with gold and copper leaf on linen, 1992