24x48 inches, oil on panel
The painting series entitled “Waiting” depicts the urban individual’s yearning for presence and the seeming impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in either a quiet, even hopeful state or, alternately, an anguish of unfulfilled anticipation.
84x108 inches, oil on canvass
84x108 inches, oil on canvass
36x96 inches, oil on panel
36x96 inches, oil on panel
The series began in 2001, depicted travelers waiting underground. But as the paintings evolved, the people ceased to be exclusively travelers, and began to emphasize figures selected from anonymous snapshots of city streets. Although the experience of waiting remains, the perception of it has changed from one of mundane task to one leavened with transcendence.
24x48 inches, oil on panel
24x36 inches, oil on panel
24x48 inches, oil on panel
48x48 inches, oil on panel
48x48 inches, oil on panel
42x60 inches, oil on panel
48x48 inches, oil on panel
The series has also charted the evolution of an artist—the reductive elements of the compositions provide an outward echo of the inner states of the figures. By reducing the elements of the painting as far as possible, a frozen moment is extended.
24x36 inches, oil on panel
48x48 inches, oil on panel
48x48 inches, oil on panel
48x71 inches, oil on panel
Lastly, I have developed favored motifs in the series, a kind of visual music, such as repetition of a human image, to show not only the passage of time but of the human being through it.
24x48 inches, oil on panel
36x48 inches, oil on panel
24x48 inches, oil on panel
48x48 inches, oil on panel
Your paintings really resonate with me, in everyday life there is always something in mind I’m waiting to come through, not ever really sure when.. on a divine time that remains a mystery to our human understanding
Very beautiful. I especially dig the ones titled in the present tense, ie “Waiting..”. They remind me a bit of the Tibetan idea of Bardos – the stages of life just before death and in-between death and the next life.
Thank you!
Paint can be light. As in illumination.