Category: Mentor

Monumental Compositions

5/11/2018

"Cave" (2018 No.1; state 5), oil on canvas, 68x53 inches {"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs her Hair" (1920)}

Drawing 05·10·2018, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

I was looking at my principal mentor's art. I realized he, like I, sought a monumental response to his images. He was Philip Guston. Yesterday's work strongly brought on this monumentality. It is the same strength I like in Anselm Kiefer's work. And so it goes; and in so it comes....

Philip Guston, "Back View", oil on canvas, 1977

Working Forward & Looking Both Ways

11/19/2017

Drawing 11·18·2017, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

This drawing looks forward, looks back. There is a dangling whip there, so it must look back to my mentor, Philip Guston. It looks forward because it is only something I would do. I do not know anyone so completely involved, so entranced, by simultaneous in and out and across composition.

Monumental Compositions

Working Forward & Looking Both Ways

Two Works by Philip Guston

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