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Statement Concerning the Work, May 1999

This
      body of work comprises a community of recurring shapes and patterns
      altered and re-invented from image to image to make each painting
      totally unique. Circles, and their various permutations, act
      as the organizational underpinning for the paintings. Horizontal/vertical
      bands/stripes echoing the edge of the canvas set up a dialog
      between the circle and rectangle. Out of this basic relationship
      of circle to rectangle a universe of decorative eccentricities
      and quirky unexpected relationships arises. Figurative allusions
      and associations reverberate beneath seemingly non-objective
      forms to add a poetic dimension to the work. Spatial tensions
      between actual and illusion,(punctuated by the use of aluminum
      plate pop-outs, plaster gauze semi-spheres, ping-pong balls,
      bent wire, sculpted polyform compound, and/or looped electrical
      wire glued and wired to the surface), bring another level of
      resonance. Then add to this a variety of painting techniques
      --sanding, glazing, splattering, incising, blending, stamping
      and the paintings become an intensely tactile and sensuous visual
      experience.

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