MY VISUAL ART explores the formal principles of Roman and Byzantine mosaic and interprets them in abstract compositions executed in cast-off building materials.  One might call it post-postmodern Abstract Expressionism: by presenting unmoving three-dimensional pixelated surfaces for the eyes to scan and the imagination to interpret, my compositions offer an antidote to the ubiquitous electronic flat screens that flood our  minds with corporate messages and surreptitiously change our brains in ways we don't intend.

NEWS
The exhibition I co-curated with Kelley Knickerbocker and Kate Jessup opened 4 April with a big, crowded reception in the Third Floor Corridor Gallery at Inscape Arts in Seattle.

TRANSPOSITION: An Ancient Medium in the New World is a site-responsive exhibition showcasing fifteen artists from the Americas whose work is grounded in the mosaic medium.  The site is Inscape, the arts and culture enclave occupying Seattle’s former Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) building.  Given the familiar metaphor of humanity as a mosaic, the medium's ancient and contemporary associations, and the building’s former and current functions, the invited artists have created work responding to the concept of "transposition", broadly imagined.  Inscape Arts, 815 Seattle Boulevard S., 98134.  Through 24 May 2013. 

In the studio, I am finishing an exterior mural project with fellow Seattle artist and Birthday Twin Kate Jessup.  The mural will grace the north side of the Saturn Building, across the street from The Rocket sculpture, in Seattle's whimsical, public-art loving Fremont neighborhood, the known Center of the Universe.  In keeping with the cosmic theme, the artwork is entitled Invasion of the FoundFacians.  Follow the link to see a brief photo-essay describing our progress.