| Artist's Statement |
For the last 16 months my work has been motivated by a cluster of memories dating back to the heady days of the summer of 1967. The Summer of Love was also my summer to come of age as a young person. It was a time of experimentation, living in a state of wonderment and a fundamentally optimistic moment.
I was a professional musician and a part-time art student. The youthful visual arts scene looked away from the minimalist aesthetic of New York and took it’s energy from late pop art, the explosive and colorful San Francisco poster artists, and idealized notions of mind altered states of being.
The paintings I am now making are musings about that time, the collective emotion, the sense of possibility and the almost healing properties of pure color.
Even in complicated times like today, art may hold some of the secrets to finding inner tranquility.
“Visions of paradise never grow old”, Thomas O’Neill.
2009 |
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