• Revisiting Lumière
• Film Stills
• Figure/Ground
  • - Drawings
• Win/Lose Series
  • - Rainbow
  • - Roses/Horses
  • - Triptych
  • - Win/Lose
• House Objects
• Circus Series
• Motion Studies
• Camera Obscura
• Parlor Pieces
  • - Catch & Release
  • - Garden
  • - Parlor Projection
• Reverie
• The Kiss
• A Small Fortune

Film Stills or Beauty Through the Looking Glass

This series began with acrylic paintings that originated with film stills in which mirrors are significant.  Figures are painted out leaving silhouettes and all mirrors are painted silver. Both the painted props and characters become spaces of reflection and projection - very full yet blank spaces. The ongoing series directly references critic and painter Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe’s piece “Indebted to Penny Florence”, 1987.*

More recent iterations of the series feature pivotal stills from four French New Wave films. Abstraction and figuration come together in these graphic works that attempt to sum up an entire film in one image, or in the case of the video, in one, almost completely abstracted scene.

“Cinema is not the reflection of reality, but the reality of the reflection" - Jean-Luc Godard 

*see page 5, ‘Manet and the Pleasure Problematic’ from Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Beyond Piety, Critical Essays on the Visual Arts, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Works from top left:

1. Film Stills Video (Contempt, video excerpt), 2010, 7 minute projected video loop, dimensions variable.

2. Last Year at Marienbad 2, 2009, digital mock up for acrylic painting on wood panel, 36" x 60" (4 of these paintings currently in progress)

The four paintings use pivotal film stills from the following French New Wave films: Contempt, Last Year at Marienbad, Jules and Jim and India Song.

3. Last Year at Marienbad 1,2009, acrylic and archival ink jet print on paper, 13" x 19"

4. Last Year at Marienbad 2, 2009, acrylic and archival ink jet print on paper, 13" x 19"

5. Last Year at Marienbad 3, 2009, acrylic and archival ink jet print on paper, 13" x 19"

6. Last Year at Marienbad 4, 2009, acrylic and archival ink jet print on paper, 13" x 19"

7. Last Year at Marienbad 5, 2009, acrylic and archival ink jet print on paper, 13" x 19"

8. Last Year at Marienbad 6, 2009, acrylic and archival ink jet print on paper, 13" x 19"

9. Alphaville, 2008, acrylic and photographic print on paper

10. Persona, 2008, acrylic and photographic print on paper

11. Fay Grim, 2008, acrylic and photographic print on paper

12. Wyatt Earp, 2008, acrylic and photographic print on paper