A Brick Aesthetic: Form Follows Function

Bricks have an inherent beauty; they are at once the skeleton, muscles and skin of the structure they comprise. As such, clay brick has entrenched itself as one of the most versatile building materials of all time.

Today's architect and creative designer can be inspired by the plethora of styles, colors, textures and shapes that are available for almost any building design and application.

More and more architects, building designers and property owners are opting for the warm, earthy, rustic appeal of raw clay brick to be incorporated into a building's interior and exterior.

Photographic Collage

These are some of the photographs that grew out of my ruins and relics suite. The skylines are cut from actual photos where I removed the original buildings and epoxied them onto photos of concrete buttresses and pillars (I've inverted a couple at the bottom to show what they actually looked like before the transformation).

They are meant to convey a quick mental image of a cityscape, and upon closer examination the viewer re-evaluates his/her original assessment. They aren't designed to be pretty pictures, but rather they are literally ruins in themselves.

At the end of the day though, everyone will see what they want to see.

Dallas

Kansas City

South Tower

Michigan Ave.

Lincoln Park, Chicago

South Tower mounted on Concrete

Kahn Is Gone mounted on concrete

Michigan Ave. (inverted to show detail)

Lincoln Park (inverted)

Compare these with some of my charcoal drawings and you'll begin to get a bigger picture

relics remnants and ruins

the three R's

Installation of charcoals and paintings at Anne Kittrel Gallery

Harborcoat: oil on canvas

Green Grow the Rushes: diptych/oil on 2 canvases

Bus Harris: diptych/oil on 2 canvases

Rust in Pieces: oil on Masonite

Behind the Mask: oil on wood

Damage Inc.: oil on wood

All the Kings Highway: oil on wood

Driver VIII: oi on wood /very large 219" wide

Hangar XVIII: oil on wood

Horizon Award: oil on wood /another very large piece

wine run hehe

oh, to be a fly on that wall

Wallpapers I Love

Some found, others created and/or manipulated

and now for something completely different

Sketchbook Covers

wine women and song

Greek Urn: oil on wood...I painted this for my mother. Her Soroptimist's club was having an auction and she wanted something "pretty." She was tickled pink, and it fetched $340 for their charity.

Traci: pencil

Mint: acrylic on wood/broken

She Got... Tail: pastel on paper

Censored Navels and Nipples: oil on canvas mounted on wood

Ludwig Von: pencil on paper

ink sketch

ink sketch

ink sketch

Poster Wall: oil glazes over musical flyers on wood

Stevie Ray: oil & acrylic on wood

Chronic Town: ink and mask on paper

Snow Horses: pastel on paper

Playing: ink on paper