About PaintedMatter
I was tempted to present my intentions for this site in the ironic voice of our age. It's easy and self-protective to laugh off seriousness of intention. It would be dishonest though.
Painting is the center of my life. I love the personal, meditative and sensuous quality of paintings. Paint is a mysterious medium; astonishingly suggestive.
I feel excited about certain paintings in a way that is related to the excitement people feel about sports or movies or popular music.
I feel the canvas is an analog to the boundless sea of our consciousness. I feel canvases are fields of possibility. To paraphrase Emily Dickinson: painting draws a circle that takes us in.
PaintedMatter presents my new work and background information as well as providing a retrospect - selected series of paintings that I have created over the past twenty years.
PaintedMatter.com is an online gallery exhibiting my work and a suggested paradigm for the way artists might interact with the art community. My hopes are that PaintedMatter.com can offer serious collectors, art professionals and the general public a human and personal experience.
Art, after all, is very personal, even intimate; not only for the artist, but also for those who collect, exhibit, write about and simply enjoy paintings.
I'd written about my hopes for this new paradigm first in an article that was available for three years at MSNBC.com - "Painting With Light" (archived here); more recently in an article - "The View From the Pixel Factory" - appearing in the venerable art and technology journal "Leonardo" published by MIT Press (April 33:2). This site attempts to achieve the goals suggested in those pieces: as stated above, to make the experience of viewing art more personal; more connected to the artist; more informative and real.
Our lives can be changed in an instant. Painting presents an instant of choice; a permanent instant.
Art is created in the most interior intimacy and speaks to our common bond - the human spirit. Hope you have the time to seriously look at and consider this work - these are images created for meditation.