Another 15 minutes

My work, Riviera Parking, is featured today on the homepage of Red Bubble. This is one of my Walkabout series paintings, based on a slide taken back in the 1980s. It depicts an aging Victorian house under a glowering sky. The business next door, the Riviera Sofa Company ("Tonight you can sleep on the Riviera" was their TV slogan), has taken over the back yard as it's parking lot. That, and the meters on the street, have forced the tenant of this rental to park his Cadillac on what's left of the front lawn. So luxury (or the pretense thereof) and hardship exist literally side-by-side. Both are gone now, to make way for condos erected during the real estate bubble. Only the parking meters remain, and the occasional glowering sky.

Crystal Cove

Another in my House series, this one is one of the beach cottages in Crystal Cove. I gave it a coat of pacific blue paint, and demolished the houses around it, but otherwise it is as photographed. These houses were taken over by the state of California, to be eventually transformed into upscale vacation lodgings, after the original inhabitants were booted out.

Another Barn

My third barn painting is based on a photo taken this summer in Leelanau county in Northern Michigan. Painting the boards was an exercise in patience. Each one is a miniature abstract painting. Together they create a scarily realistic effect. The little square of pink is a Tantalus--some mysterious non-agricultural object stored inside. What, we may never know.

Paintings in the show

Another painting in the Artist Eye Show