The End, The Beginning, and Everything in Between

72 inches by 96 inches (6 feet by 8 feet)
Acrylic on canvas

More fun from The New Music Sketch

These are some sculptures from last week's New Music Sketch. I took a couple days to go through all the stuff that everyone brought for the event and continued with the madness.

Jim O'Neill and I started doing Music Sketch about five years ago to experiment with musical and visual art collaboration. It's all improvised, totally spontaneous, and a little bit crazy. Our last performance lasted two hours and was created entirely out of things that participants brought to the event. Thank you to all of you. The musicians working with me are Jim O'Neill, Aaron McCabe, Michael McGarthwaite, Mark O'Day, and Justin Hartke. They made music out of all the objects too. Everything was fair game.





scale









sad glasses







rearing up closet organizer







pinned car








pink glasses








Flying Chair







Chair Boy and Shy License Plate








Bedside Bulldog



and of course, I am still making paintings. Email me from the website for pricing.

A Dress out of Canvas

Stephanie Weber of Artful Decor asked me to design a dress with her for the fund-raising event Fashion + Fusion this year. This is the dress worn by Alison Holmes that won "Most Wearable". One of the judges was a contestant from Project Runway named Chritopher Straub. I made the dress out of old canvases torn into strips and fastened together.

Paintings Available for Sale

Please email me for more details about the paintings if you are considering adding to your collection or beginning a new one.

Many people tell me that my paintings are the first paintings they purchased to begin their art collections. Furthermore, a large number of those people come back to me years later to add to their collections. This is encouraging, and it is also a warning to you. You may not be able to stop.




Island Bay
30 x 38 inches
acrylic on canvas

This painting was painted in New Zealand during my three month residency there. It captures the color and energy of the ocean near Wellington on the North Island. It is named after the Bay where I would get off the bus from "home"and begin my 30 minute walk along the shore towards Owhiro Bay where my studio was located at Nautilus Studios - Hill Yis!





Bacon for Dinner
30 x 30 inches
acrylic on canvas

Named as such because any kind of breakfast food for dinner is more than merely decadent.






Serious Cat
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas

Yes, it is named after an internet meme. My favorite iteration is this one below:









Dramatic Prairie Dog
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas

Yes, this too is named after a funny clip taken from a Japanese video of a children's show:










She's a Premium Person
24 x 24 inches
acrylic on canvas

This painting is named for younger sister's wry sense of humor (only recently discovered by me) and premium character. It is by far, one of my most favorite paintings from the entire Paradisio Series that I created during a recent trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I am quite surprised it has not been snapped up by some aspiring art collector, but I will be quite happy if it never does. The word "premium" in the title comes from its use by a character in the book Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.






The Bengal Liger
3 feet tall by 4 feet wide
acrylic on canvas

Named for its skills and magic.






Little Red
12 x 16 inches
acrylic on canvas







You Know You Want It
3 feet tall by 5 feet wide
acrylic on canvas







Untitled #1
3 feet by 3 feet
acrylic on canvas







Music Sketch #24
4 feet tall by 5 feet wide
acrylic on canvas

James Tyler O'Neill and I have been creating performance based interdisciplinary artworks of sound and visual art for over five years. This is one of them.






Emergence #2
4 feet by 4 feet
acrylic, and mixed media on canvas

This painting takes my design style and messes with it a bit - introducing chaos to order and inspired by the Minnesota winter.







La Rouge
10 feet tall by 6 feet wide
acrylic on canvas

Big, bold, and passionate.






The End, The Beginning, and Everything in Between
6 feet tall and 8 feet wide
acrylic on canvas

Packed full of emotion, this one is.