WRITING

These works were created during the COVID pandemic, a time when the news presented one nightmare after the next across the nations of the...

This series is an illustration of my experience in rebuilding a conscious mind after my severe brain injury. That horrible moment of...

In this simple black bag was a world of objects which I had been forbidden to touch while I was growing up, objects that were always...

Although I managed to regain my drawing skill in limited ways within a year or so after my brain aneurysm, it took me some time after...

These series of earlier paintings are discussed in the hour-long lectures I gave during the exhibitions and shown elsewhere on this...

Norfolk Objects. When I was accepted to the Norfolk summer program, I had been saturated by the prior academic years, wading through a...

When I moved to Los Angeles, there was a tremendous amount of construction in progress. It seemed to be everywhere. On almost every...

Lecture at Davenport College, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 4, 2006. Deciding to call this show "Encounters and Memories,"...

Lecture at TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 7, 2002. In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud proposes a vivid metaphor...

Lecture at TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 18, 2001. The title for this exhibition is taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson, called...

Lecture at TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March 16, 2000. In this talk, I hope to share some insight into what inspires my artwork. I'll...