Porch lattice, red hair clips, ping pong balls, “hang-tag hooks" courtesy of Barb Martin, cut vinyl roses, crown molding, paint

55"L x 6"D x 55"W

I was trained as a dentist, self-taught as a portrait painter and now am a sculptor. Primarily I am trying to do things that I have not seen before, eschewing levels of art school formalism and creating information-based pieces that reveal the structure and beauty in common objects, often in patterns involving self-symmetry. I admire Hilary's work, as she applies paint in a way I had never seen, seemingly a totally new way to paint. 

As of about 30 years ago, I have felt that stylistic combinatorics, three-dimensional painting, and high-concept high-craft work were areas still ripe for explanation. Our information age demands informational art, but alas I am stuck in the analogue domain. I recently saw a very prominent local artist say in their artist talk that if you merely follow all the standard tenets of art-making involving composition, color, line, texture, etc., you will produce good art. This rule-following mindset is the death of the novel, and antithetical to truly creative processes. The more rules you can break the better, as long as the results merit the risk. I am not claiming anything on my own, as I often feel like most of my work fails in some fundamental way, but often because my addiction to minimalism creates fear that disallows the final 2 percent. So, I often go back to older work and revise them when new solutions or ideas appear.

I view art as entertainment designed for an audience with an ever-decreasing attention span. I truly hope you find these objects entertaining, interesting, fun, and beautiful in some way.