Mythinburbia
"Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity.”
-Borges
The suburban landscape that I grew up in has become a backdrop or staging ground for this group of pictures. I try to call forth from its immense secularity a kind of poetics that can range in subject from intensely personal/Theological reflections, to social and even international provocations.
Black Drawings
Mythinburbia #3, 2005
32" x 36"
Mythinburbia #5, 2009
65" x 100"
Mythinburbia #6 (One for Lauren), 2014
60" x 55"
Mythinburbia #7, 2018
55" x 110"
Mythinburbia #8, 2018
63" x 96"
Mythinburbia #9 (The Desert of St. Anthony), 2014 39" x 115"
Mythinburbia #10 (Mr. Vortex), 2020
59" x 111"
Mythinburbia #13 (Rain in the Desert), 2015
78 3/4" x 115"
Mythinburbia #12, the Burning Boy #2
2025
Mythinburbia #12, Girl Walk,
2020
Mythinburbia #14, The Burning Boy #1
2019
Mythinburbia #15: The Correct Way to Hold a Gun, 2021
90" x 96"
Mythinburbia # 16; Last Tuesday Night, 2022
60"X 85"
Mythinburbia #17, Fire Starter, 2022
63" X 96"
Mythinburbia #19, Allies,
39 x 50, 2024
Mythinburbia #20, the Persian Room
64X70, 2024
Mythinburbia #21, the Cypress Apts. 2025
Mythinburbia #22, oil on tar paper, 2025
Studies
Cul-de-Sac, 9X12, watercolor & pencil, 2025
study for Firestarter, 9"X12", pen & watercolor, 2025
study for Mythinburbia #8, 10"X14", watercolor, 2025
study for Floating, 6"X9", watercolor & pencil, 2025
Florid, 10"X14"watercolor & gauche, 2025
Tree and Figure, 9"X6", gouche, 2025