This painting (self portrait) was re-imagined from an earlier painting that I started about 2008. Framed in a light colored maple floating frame. A detail of her face pictured above. "Anneliese" was my name as a child. The "lattice" brushwork over her torso was inspired by artist I greatly admire: Jaume Plensa who uses this design in many of his sculptures.
As with “Anneliese,” this painting was layered over with several fields of CoLor and completed many years later (~2018). How do I know when the painting is finished? Sometimes it takes 2 hours, sometimes 2 decades.
Loose stained-glass pattern over a CoLorField background, “Anneliese” is a see-through” self-reflection. On the surface, I appear to look through the “window panes,” the clouds and fog of self-doubt are visible. "Anneliese" includes light, dark, vertical, horizontal, smooth, rough, transparent and opaque, as my personality transitioned all of these aspects. (statement for “Convergence” at Marin MOCA May 29 – July 18, 2021
Exhibited at Marin MOCA, Novato, CA (2021) and Santa Rosa Arts Center, Santa Rosa, CA
Photographed by Jay Daniel, Black Cat Studio, Novato, CA
Framed by Ted Gross, Sebastopol, CA
