Artist Statement (Pictures of) Ideas Not Yet Formed My art relates to the Post-Modern movement in that it plays out the conventions of Abstract Expressionism, but in a self-conscious, methodical way. It is manneristic, pushing pure abstraction as far as it can go without being representational. It is intended to signal the end or death of Modern art, and as such be sad, longing, abject, listless. It is backward-looking in that it preserves the pure, raw creative impulse, but forward-looking in that it uses proven techniques that make the work feel deep, reverent and aspirational. It is an invocation of subject-matter yet to come, and admonishment to a new humanism and intellectual rigor. In short, it is an attempt to liberate artists and art, to free them from the current need to be all things at once—the joker and the joke, the rebel and the rebellion, the motivator and the motivated—which has resulted in a recent, false pantheon of art heroes, empty irony, and diminishment of thought. I am an artist caught between the last gasps of the past, and a future yet to come. Bio Artist, teacher, speaker. Light-filled, glowing, abstractions in oils. BFA 1988, Hartford Art School (Univ. of Hartford, CT). MFA 1991, Brooklyn College, New York. 1991—1994 taught at The Corcoran Museum School, Washington, DC. 1996—1999 taught at Hartford Art School. 2009—present taught at Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT. 15 years as Product Development Artist at The Danbury Mint, Norwalk, CT. Numerous, prominent shows. Musical. Literary. Just stands and paints. I am a member of Artists in Real Time, Inc. and an annual participant of the city-wide Open Studio Hartford.