This painting is on view at Harris Stanton Gallery through September 29th.  The show is "An American City: Viewpoints"  The show is running in conjunction with the Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City including Cleveland, Akron and Oberlin which runs through September 30th. The inspiration for this piece was to portray a view of Akron semi-abstractly with the building overlapping each other with transparency to work with the space in the canvas. Charles Scheeler's abstract cityscapes was an inspiration for this painting.

I wanted to thank everyone who came to the opening last night.  Thank you Meg, Ivana and staff for your continual support.  It was a perfect evening.  I had a very enjoyable time especially after the frenzy of the final push to get the paintings done and in time for the show. 

This painting is near completion for my upcoming show with Lee Heinen in Akron at Harris Stanton Gallery.  The opening is Thursday July 12 from 5:30 to 8pm and the show will run through August 11th.  The gallery is located at 2301 West Market Street, Akron, Ohio 44313. The website is www.HarrisStantonGallery.com. I  hope to see you there!

This is the box I donated to "Out-of-the-Box Auction" for the 9th Biennial Arts Alive Awards Celebration and Fundraiser on June 12th at 5:30 at Summit ArtSpace in Akron. www.summitartspace.org/all-about-arts-alive-2018/

I finally finished this painting. I started it about two years ago and I didn't know what to do with it so I put it in storage. I was looking at it wondering if I'll ever figure out what to do with it.  It's from a photo-collage, but the photo didn't help me either.  So I just started staring at it and answers started popping up as I looked at it more and more.  Then I started working on it again and it came to a finalization finally.

This is a new piece that I sent to Kutztown PA for the annual Invitational Salon of Small Works. I used premeditated colors for the piece, but it still turned out different than I expected.  Many things can spark my inspiration for a piece and then I have to figure in other things such as time limitations or deadlines.  I chose this house for its simplicity and then I decided that I was going to make the painting in reds, whites, greys and black.

This painting is not recent. I have always been interested in drawing and painting trees. I like the way the branches grow and twist around as they move through space.  I want to document this painting because its in bad shape.  Unfortunately it has cracked badly and will not last too long.