paintings polyptychs tongues grids

I make drawings and paintings that explore relationships between and among men. The exchange of looks, the privilege of looking and the wish to be seen are positions I explore to reveal the ways men respond, desire, and relate to each other.

The images come from a variety of sources - my observational practice, movies, pornography, web surfing - basically I see someone and draw him. These drawings are the basis of my painting practice. But in addition to being a record of seeing, they function as notes to myself about a particular person or encounter. They document something about the men I have seen - their strength, beauty, cruelty, cowardice, energy, power, clothing - that I find compelling enough to draw and take back to my studio.

The work develops a different character in installation. The separate paintings or drawings are completed by placing them in a relationship that is influenced by the rectangular supports and the gazes with the drawings. The final arrangement is created from trial and error. I am looking for the economy of gazes that can be suggested from images in proximity and the frisson that comes from the structure of looking and the pleasure of being seen.

i want to tell you, 2008 oil on panel, 14 panels , 66 x 38 inches overall

 

line of sight, 2009, oil on canvas and panel, 10 panels, 59 x 38 inches overall

 

these things i know, 2008-9, oil on pael and canvas, 23 panels, 100 x 68 inches overall

 

what is between you and me, 2009, oil on panel, 14 panels, 84 x 49 inches overall

 

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