Future Exhibitions

I have several ideas for future art exhibitions, and to keep me motivated as well as to generate interest, I am posting them here. If you manage a venue that would be a good fit for one of these projects, please feel free to contact me. 

Maps of the Random presents paintings that chart the geography of chaos and explore the possibility of seeing a kind of intelligence in the mystery of randomness. These works were created using algorithms and formulas that leave certain decisions up to chance, thereby setting up a strange interplay between automation and innovation.

In the exhibition, Grid Life, I team up with Arlene Navo and Root Bradford to present works that explore the ambiguous meanings behind the concept of the grid. As metaphors for architecture, technology, and even artistic creativity, grids can appear both as living and constricting, evolving and isolating. Each of our unique approaches to the grid, which range from photography and sculpture to drawing and painting, unite to form a multidimensional framework of shared experience and mutual cooperation. 

Meat Matrix, 2024. Photo courtesy of Root Bradford. 

The Straight & Narrow, 2021. Photo courtesy of Arlene Navo. 

In the online virtual exhibition, Mandalas and Modules, Ron Hartgrove and I place our paintings in a critical but respectful dialogue with each other. Hartgrove’s art, which evades precise categorization, is inspired by incommunicable personal experiences of unbounded awareness during periods of Transcendental Meditation, which he has practiced for fifty-five years. Therefore, Hartgrove’s works express a skepticism towards language and serve as records of his exploration beyond the current horizons of abstract art. In Hartgrove’s large-scale watercolor and acrylic paintings, the mandala appears as a mysterious structure that paradoxically sets consciousness free while focusing it. In my work, however, randomly arranged modules map out chaotic labyrinths from which no escape seems possible, though ironically neither may it be desirable. Furthermore, in my paintings I consider whether illusions are useful aspects of reality rather than just dangerous aberrations of it. In addition to presenting Hartgrove’s philosophical and aesthetic approach against the backdrop of my own, Mandalas and Modules also allows the viewer to trace some lines of influence that his oeuvre has had on my artistic development. 

The Grid Series #5. Photo courtesy of Ron Hartgrove.

The exhibition, Language of Angles, focuses on the recurring symbols in my work of hard-edge geometric abstraction. Diamonds, spirals, and labyrinths populate my paintings, making up a vocabulary of points and lines, as well as of viewpoints and lines of thought. These ancient signs inform the compositions, complicating their reading, and opening up new possibilities of meaning.