Initially the UCSs were a sketchbook series honoring architecture when it is at its most beautiful - when it's half finished. Over time they’ve become more about the magic of structure, and it’s emergent qualities.
Images from this series have been selected by American Illustration, have been featured in two Hashimoto Contemporary/SpokeArt shows, as well as inspiring the commission of illustrations for Road & Track and MODUS(UK) magazines.
The Technomancers are . . . Well, they're an experiment with form and shape in gouache and pencil about the collision of ideas and technology. They began as an exploration of technology and magic, but have become an interpretation of how the complex technological systems collide with our lives, often in ways we can’t understand. Rationalized another way, they are expanded view portraits of different aspects of our digital selves.
12”x12”, Gouache on Paper
After nearly 120 years of powered flight and incredible development, and the Boeing 737 MAX crashes we have to ask: have we made flight too complicated? And who, or what is actually flying our planes?
This piece was created for SpokeArt’s “Game of Thrones” themed show: “Winter Is Here” in 2019 (before the beginning of the final season). The piece maps the psycho/temporal feedback loop that (SPOILER!) both defined and ended Hodor’s life.
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
Available for purchase via the WOW x WOW Gallery. Prints not available. The domestication of animals via genetic modification: what was once selective breeding can now be aided by CRISPR to augment behavior or food production.
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
Our Inner Troll: If we met our digital selves, would we like what we saw?
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
Building an "Incel": At what point does a 4chan/Reddit culture cloaked in digital anonymity and toxic masculinity become radicalized into threats and acts of violence?
9”x12”, Gouache on Paper
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
11”x14”, Gouache on Paper
"This Is Why The Space Program Must Go On" was created for the "SPACE! Show" curated by the great Mike Mitchell in 2012 and the initial iteration of the image for the show was 13" x 19" digital print. This was a real passion project for me, so I decided to show each the Illustrated letters so you can follow the story in the typography.
A set of autobiographical 22" x 22" gouache on paper paintings created for the "History of the World" (with Owen Sherwood) and "One Hour of TV a Week" shows.
A collection of selected pop culture work, created various group show and a few just for me.
This piece was created for SpokeArt’s “Game of Thrones” themed show: “Winter Is Here” in 2019 (before the beginning of the final season). The piece maps the psycho/temporal feedback loop that (SPOILER!) both defined and ended Hodor’s life.
Created for Gallery1988's 2013 Crazy4Cult show featuring characters from "The Princess Bride" in an Homage to Albrect Durer's "Knight, Death, and the Devil" created 500 years ago in 1513.
This was created from Gallery1988's 2015 Crazy4Cult Show in LA. This is the second of the homage pieces to Durer's three master engravings. This one is based on Durer's "Melancholia I", 1514, and reimagined based on Jim Henson's and Frank Oz's 1982 amazing puppet/fantasy cult classic "The Dark Crystal".
Created for Gallery1988's Video Games Show featuring the classic Konami Code.
My favorite Batman - aging scarred, gnarled, heavy, battle worn Batman.
Created for Gallery1988's We Made Them Do It show, a tribute to one my favorite childhood comedies, "Perfect Strangers".
Created for Gallery1988's Please Post Bills, a Bill Murray Tribute Show, featuring Murray as "Steve Zissou".
Created for iam8bit Gallery's Classic Video Game Show, based on "Excitebike".
Some of the my favorite classic Marvel characters.
A selected group from the dark side of the Marvel universe.
Created for Gallery1988's Avengers show featuring Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
A painting for Brave New Worlds' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Show.
A collection of the costumes and favorite lines from main characters of "The Goonies".
A piece in honor of comedy heroes, Tim and Eric.
This was created for the Twilight Zone Show at Gallery1988 as an homage to the 5 Toys episode.
This was created for the Twilight Zone Show at Gallery1988, based on the episode "Steel".
This was created for the Twilight Zone Show at Gallery1988, based on the episode "The Invaders".
Created for Gallery1988's Crazy4Cult show, based on "The Warriors".
Created for Gallery1988's Crazy4Cult show, based on "The Warriors".
Created for Gallery1988's Video Game Show featuring one of my classic arcade favorites, "Arkanoid".
Created for Gallery1988's Is This Thing On Show featuring the brilliant chameleonic Peter Sellers.
Simply for fun.
The Tall Ships began in Waldoboro studio overlooking the mudflats where some of the biggest sailing ships ever were built in the mid to late 1800s like the five masted “Governor Ames”, a behemoth of a schooner. Those ships remind of medieval cathedrals - the work of thousand taking place over generations. Those floating cathedrals were built faster, but no less impressive even given the fact that they rarely lasted more than a few voyages on the story Atlantic Coast and were being phased out by steam powered ships. Their sheer size and ingenuity, and the audacity to build them play a nice contrast to the idea of small towns in coastal Maine being quaint, charming and rather sedate.
Combined with another Victorian convention - the silhouette - they become a lovely and nostalgic space for new ideas and juxtapositions playing off the traditional nautical silhouette and playing with the viewers’ expectations. The sail plans become conceptual billboards for whatever you want then to be - the ship lending massive scale to whatever idea, big or small, funny or serious, that you can design into them, and putting a steady wind at its back.
Prints available via INPRNT.
Gouache on paper, 40”x30”
Image features a selection native Maine wildflowers.
Goauche on Paper, 30”x40”
Image feature a selection of native Maine butterflies.
Gouache on Paper, 30”x40”
Gouache on Paper, 20”x30”
Gouache on Paper, 20”x30”
Gouache on Paper, 20”x30”
Gouache on Paper, 22”x30”
22” x 30” Gouache on Rives BFK
22” x 30”, Gouache on Rives BFK
18” x 24”, Gouache on Bristol
22” x 30”, Gouache on Rives BFK
This is a 22”x30”, gouache on Rives BFK painting.
22” x 30” , Gouache on Rives BFK
18” x 24”, Gouache on Bristol
This is an 18” x 24” ink drawing on Bristol.
This is an 18” x 24” gouache painting on Bristol.
This is a 30” x 44” gouache painting on Rives BFK.
This is a 30” x 44” gouache painting on Rives BFK. The inspiration for these paintings: “The Five Masters” is my new adopted home town of Waldoboro, Maine: Home of the Five Master Schooner. My studio overlooks a portion of the old shipyard where the first five masted schooner - “The Governor Ames” - was built in 1888.
5” x 7”, Ink and gouache on Strathmore Paper
5”x7”, Ink, Watercolor and Gouache on Strathmore 500
12”x8.5”, Ink, Watercolor, and Gouache on 140lb Arches Cold Press
5”x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Strathmore 500
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Strathmore 500
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
8” x 10”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
7” x 10”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”, Ink and Gouache on Paper
I don’t need to tell you all she did, and all the reasons we have to be thankful for her life and work. It’s too long to tell, too much to squeeze in. This is a little painting I did the night she died. Please grab it, use it - if you’d like a higher res version, shoot me an email. Hats off to this intellectual force who was also an amazingly empathetic, brave, and just woman.
