WATER SERIES
Water is timeless. It is dynamic and protean, always in flux – an apt metaphor for changing times. Water also has a paradoxical appearance. It is transparent but forms reflective surfaces that mirror whatever appears above it. Because of these reflective qualities, water can be thought of as the first recording instrument,
a natural but impermanent camera. First inspired by the patterns of ripples and movement of water captured by Polaroids at the Peristyle Pool at the Getty Villa in Malibu, and later transformed into large-scale work on mylar and canvas. These Getty Water Paintings are sumptuous variations on the inspiration of Monet's water lily paintings, textural sweeps in which the apparent rippling interplay of water and light amounts to visions of impressionistic poetry.
Additional artwork on the subject of water can be found in the Getty Series, The Floating World Series (Japan), Alaska Series, and Paris Polaroids.
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Getty Water Diptych 1992 gold and metal leaf on mylar 42” x 60”
Wilshire Water #1 2013 gold leaf on mylar 30” x 42”
Wilshire Water #3 2013 gold and metal leaf on mylar 30” x 42”
Wilshire Water #6 aluminum and metal leaf on mylar 30” x 42”
Getty Water, 1993 gold and metal leaf on canvas 36” x 42”
Wilshire Water #2 2013 gold and metal leaf on mylar 30” x 42”
Wilshire Water #4 2013 gold and metal leaf on mylar 30” x 42”
Wilshire Water #7, 2013 aluminum and metal leaf on mylar 30” x 42”
Water Polaroid 1996 metal leaf on Polaroid Spectra 4" x 4"
Water Study #2 1994 metal leaf on Polaroid 3 1-2” x 4 1-4”
West Palm Beach Water #1 1993 gold leaf on Polaroid Spectra
4” x 4”
Water Study #3 1994 metal leaf on Polaroid 3 1-2” x 4 1-4”
Water Polaroid 2005 metal leaf on Polaroid Spectra 4” x 4”
Water Study #3 1994 metal leaf on Polaroid 3 1-2” x 4 1-4”
