High School (1995-1998)

Mixed Media on Canvas, 30 x 30 inches, 1998

During my senior year of high school I went to Manhattan to visit some galleries with one of my friends who was also an artist.  I remember seeing an abstract painting for thousands of dollars.  I had not made many abstract paintings if any by that point.  I said to myself I could do this. So the next week in class I found some different mediums and this painting emerged.  It was fun, so I made many more abstracts after that.  But they always have a story.

Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 30 inches, 1998 (no longer exists)

Unfortunately this painting no longer exists I painted over it.  I have a smaller version I kept.  I don’t remember the assignment for this painting but I remember the feeling that I created it with.  Sometimes in life you try and try to do something and all you get is rejected, here symbolized by an X.   Painting my feelings always helped me move on from it.  It is almost as if I lock them into the painting.

Acrylic on Cardboard, 1996

This is actually my father eating pizza in our kitchen, painted from life on a cardboard gift box.