SHADOWWork
The implicit naturalism and evocative atmospheres of SHADOWwork paintings and prints represent a time of research and experimentation with digital imaging. The compositions of the paintings and prints were electronically formed from a collection of shadows captured around the turn of the century. The diffused edges and elongated distortions of shadow shapes and patterns echoed the skewed geometries and weathered surfaces of paintings from this period.
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Paintings
Burn, from 2005, closely expresses the original digital composition, while other paintings, i.e. Kugelblitz, 2005-2011 slowly morphed over time thru intermittent and prolonged painting sessions. The exploratory interactions of light and dark, traces of geometry and painterly nuances evident in SHADOWwork lead to three subsequent bodies of work titled Linea Terminale, Isis, and BLUE.
Prints
In 2002, Artists Image Resource, a Pittsburgh based alternative print and imaging facility, provided the opportunity to integrate digital imaging with orthodox print making techniques. Two suites of digitally composed prints resulted from the AIR collaboration titled Shadow Series and Rorschach Shadow Trilogy.
Shadow series
The Shadow print series began as a project combining digitally modeled compositions with traditional printmaking. As the project expanded, compositions with shared formal qualities were grouped together and reproduced with four print methods: Intaglio Etching, Four-color Lithography, Silk-screen, and Iris Digital printing. Subtitled Landscape, Architecture, Sky, and Vermont, the prints settled as a comparative study of printmaking technologies, and a contemplation of evolution and personal biography. The three subtly modified Iris prints retain their identity as shadows photographed near the artist’s place of birth in southern Vermont.
rorschach Shadow Trilogy
The Rorschach Shadow Trilogy screen prints are digital fusions of shadow and bilateral symmetry, made in deference to the Shadow and Rorschach paintings of Pittsburgh native, Andy Warhol.
