AN ALTERNATIVE TO LOGIC
at
Longview Gallery, Washington, DC
also at Artsy
Also at Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Tucson Arizona
P A I N T I N G S
The works here (An Alternative to Logic) were produced after a brain injury. It was as if a strong wind had blown through my brain and scattered dreams and memories across the floor. Some were bright, others faded or torn around the edges. I decided to pick them up and paint them.
Melting Sun, 72" x 120" (183 x 305 cm), Oil on Canvas (2 panels), 2018
The earth is getting hotter, as if the sun were melting. But maybe we are melting
New Year's Eve, Beebe, Arkansas/3, 64"" x 96"" (163 x 244 cm), Oil on Canvas, 2016
From the local paper:
“We heard the first bird fall at 11:57 p.m., then probably 10 more over the next minute,” local resident Mabel Jean Jackson tells us. “We pulled the lawn chairs out on the front porch and didn’t hear anything for a couple of minutes. Then at midnight on the dot the sky fell out. They just kept falling. We couldn’t see the ground after a few seconds.” Local meteorologist Jeff Baskin tells us he began monitoring several large masses on radar moving in the direction of Beebe shortly before the bird deaths. Experts say that it appears the birds traveled from around the country to the area before their death.
Partial Eclipse, (August 21, 2017), 60" x 80" (152 x 203 cm), Oil on Canvas, 2017
In places where the solar eclipse was partial, it projected crescent moon shadows onto the ground like thousands of bird wings
Untitled, 76” x 152” (193 x 387 cm), oil on canvas, 2018 (2 panels)
New Year's Eve, Beebe, Arkansas/4, 60"" x 80"" (152 x 203 cm), Oil on Canvas, 2016
From the local paper:
“We heard the first bird fall at 11:57 p.m., then probably 10 more over the next minute,” local resident Mabel Jean Jackson tells us. “We pulled the lawn chairs out on the front porch and didn’t hear anything for a couple of minutes. Then at midnight on the dot the sky fell out. They just kept falling. We couldn’t see the ground after a few seconds.” Local meteorologist Jeff Baskin tells us he began monitoring several large masses on radar moving in the direction of Beebe shortly before the bird deaths. Experts say that it appears the birds traveled from around the country to the area before their death.
Sophie’s moon, 72” x 96” (183 x 244 cm), Oil on canvas, 2018 (2 panels)
Sophie’s theory: When someone dies, the soul flies to the moon. The moon waxes bigger and brighter as it fills up with souls. When the moon is full, the souls fly up to the heavens. The moon disappears, and it starts over.
When Water becomes air, 64” x 96 (163 x 244 cm)”, oil on canvas, 2016-18
When water becomes air, things lose their edges. The horizon is blurred like the line between life and death, or home and somewhere unknown.
Handwriting Practice, 72” x 120” (183 x 305 cm), oil on canvas, 2017 (2 panels)
She practiced her handwriting in the sky with vapor as her ink
No-place, 66” x 90” ” (168 x 229 cm), oil on canvas, 2017
Sky Graph, 66” x 90” (168 x 229 cm), oil on canvas, 2017
She imagined the stars had a mathematical order that could be graphed. Later, in a chapel
she saw a blue ceiling with gold stars at perfect intervals.
She thought someone else had had the same desire
more works in the studio
Oil Spill Bird, oil on canvas, 60" x 80" (152 x 203 cm)
In my last semester of highschool, I lived with 1200 oil covered birds, cleaning the oil off their feathers, sleeping next to them, feeding them, mainly watching them die one by one
Unititled (in process), Oil on 2 canvas panels, 80" x 114" (203 x 290 cm)
As I work on this painting, I feel like Penelope who wove by day and unravelled by night. It is slowly filling up, waist deep now. I'm not sure when to stop
Dream (untitled disaster), oil on 2 canvas panels, 72" x 120" (183 x 305 cm)
I dreamed of a ship being swallowed by water
Homer's Fish, Oil on 2 canvas panels, 74" x 100" (188 x 254cm)
There was an exhibition of Winslow Homer's work at the Met. Among the paintings was this small fish. It stuck inside me and the next day in my studio I painted it
Oil Spill Bird/2, oil on canvas, 48" x 72" (122 x 183 cm)
Migrant/2, Oil on Linen, 74" x 52" (188 x 133 cm)
Migrant, Oil on Canvas, 60" x 80" (152 x 203 cm)
Dream (Witness), Oil on Canvas, 72" x 96" (183 x 244 cm)
I dreamed of a giant bird who knew everything, like god
Dream (in the beginning), Oil on Canvas, 57" x 80" (145 x 203 cm)
I was raised an atheist, but there was a large leatherbound bible in the house with a big gold lock. It had belonged to my father's grandfather who was long dead. Sometimes we would open it and look inside. It seemed to be a secret and forbidden world. The picture of genesis looked something like this
