Early Abstract Paintings

When my artistic interests began to broaden beyond music and into the visual arts, I started painting. Mostly abstracts. I approached each work with a particular problem or question in mind. How can you avoid the suggestion of landscape? What happens if you split the form in half but then try to obscure that split? While my approach to subject eventually became more research focused, this selection of early paintings reflect my interests of the time in the areas of form, material, and the works of other artists.

fleeting askance

edge to

forget color

lift complement

long interval

push

lower

settled

pointed shift