"My work explores the connection between the artist and the model, the energy exchanged between the two. It's about emotional response, tactile, visceral, abstract, created with a limited color palette, leaving the brush strokes and drips raw and unrefined. It's as much a conversation as a picture, a snapshot of emotion, a thread running between the observer and the observed. Connective Tissue."
A 12″ x 24″ canvas lends itself to some possibilities. Nicole had one of her great dresses with her, we did a peek-a-boo thing. My friend Pete sees something more visceral in the dress than I do. The joy of art.
I dropped her portait into the center and her profiles on each end. The left end is my favorite part.
From the Fascia Series.
