5/28/21 A Cast of Thousands! The latest Thread Series album cover piece is Thread #47 (Khartoum), 2021, on an original 1966 soundtrack album cover for the Heston/Olivier epic. Looking closely, you can make out Heston as the heroic anglo, and Olivier as the evil Arab. (Jeez, you gotta love the sixties.) Includes the LP. And check out the WIP shots, too. Available

5/27/21 Introducing Thread #46 (Zhivago), 2021, plus four WIP captures. The latest Thread Series painting on vintage album cover - this one featuring the original soundtrack from Doctor Zhivago. It includes all the original liner notes and LP's (still in fine shape at 57 years old!). Available

5/24/21 It's only Monday, and shaping up to be a great art week! This piece, Negation: Conditional #2, 2017, 30x40", Oil & Charcoal on Panel, has found a new home with a Bay Area collector. Thanks to Poet and/the Bench for the sale!

5/24/21 I'm pleased to tell you that this piece, Chaise #18, 2015, is on its way to a new home in San Diego. Thanks to Elisa Contemporary Art for the sale from the "A Glimpse Ahead" show in Westport, CT!

5/20/21 Here is the shiny new Thread #41 (Crowd Dynamics IV), 2021, with its friend Thread #33 (Crowd Dynamics III), 2021 above. Both 22x30", Oil & Inkjet on Paper. Available.

5/17/21 I'm extremely excited about these two large-scale metal prints I just received! That satin-y aluminum finish is so delicious with the blurred vintage photo imagery. I can't wait to give them the Thread Series treatment - stay tuned!

5/11/21 Thought you might be interested in seeing the finished, unmasked, Thread #44 (Notebook), 2021, 12x16", Oil & Inkjet on Paper. The background image is an altered found vintage photograph - my best guess is late "40's. Available.

5/3/21 Four WIP views of the newest Thread Series piece, making use of an altered found photo of a huge crowd. 22x30", oil & inkjet on oil paper.

4/30/21 A studio update on work in progress Thread #44 (Notebook), with a couple views and a detail. Making use of an altered found vintage photograph. 12x16", oil and inkjet on oil paper. Stay tuned for the completed piece!

4/16/21 Now complete, introducing Thread #45 (Field), 2021, 16x12", Oil & Inkjet on Paper. Available.

3/18/21 Three stages of WIP and a detail for the new Thread Series piece, plus a detail - Thread #45 (Field), 2021, employing altered imagery from a found vintage photograph. This one is 12x16" inches on oil paper, but I'm planning a larger version on aluminum panel. Can't you just see it?

3/15/21 The next Thread Series piece under way, using an altered found vintage photograph. Click the pic to see the looping form laid in and ready for paint. Stay tuned... Thread #44 (Notebook), 2021

3/11/21 WIP Thread #42 & 43 (BlueAlmostBlack II & III), 2021, captured in the studio in just their gold undercoats - scandalous! Watch this space for the finished versions...

3/10/21 Laying in undercoat for Thread #41 (Crowd Dynamics IV), 2021.

3/9/21 Thread #36 (Wheel), 2021 repurposes an older piece of mine from '08. 17x17", Oil & charcoal on found fabric on panel. Available

3/3/21 Brand new works on paper: Thread #37-#40 (Studies A-D for Multiple Layers of Chaos), 2021, 12x16", Oil on paper. Abstractions of our unsettled world. Available

2/22/21 The latest Thread Series piece, just completed this morning. Thread #34 (Side By Side), 2021, 12x12", Oil on vintage album cover (record included) Available

2/15/21 New in the studio: Thread #33 (Crowd Dynamics III), 2021 22x30", Oil & Inkjet on Paper. That saturated, translucent Alizarin Crimson is delicious, if I do say so myself. Available

2/3/21 A new piece from the Thread Series, Thread #30 (Snapshot), 2021, repurposing an older painting of mine from 2013. 10x13". Available

2/3/21 Fresh in the studio: Thread #32 (Taste of Honey), 2021, Oil on Vintage Album Cover (record included). Available

1/15/21 New Thread Series piece, fresh from the studio: Thread #31 (Today's Golden Hits), 2021, Oil on Vintage Album Cover (record included). Available

12/17/21 Something good comes out of 2020! Introducing Thread #24 (Egon), 2020, 12x18", Oil and Inkjet on Aluminum Panel. Available

12/16/21 Completed Egon diptych, 22x30" each, Oil & Inkjet on Paper - Thread #27 & #28 (Egon Positive & Egon Negative), 2020. Available

12/16/20 Look who just came home from Spain! Pool #31, 2017, 36x48", Oil & Charcoal on Panel. Available

2/6/20 Thread #8 (Song for the Soil), 2019, 22x30", Oil & Inkjet on Paper, has found a new home with Bay Area collector. Thanks to Poet and/the Bench for their efforts, and for believing in this new body of work!

1/30/20 A trio of new framed Thread Series pieces in oil on vintage album covers (LPs included.) Available

1/28/20 Here's how that Egon Thread Series piece on aluminum is shaping up. Please stand by...

1/14/20 Egon is back for more Thread Series action. This one is on aluminum. All drawn in and ready for paint. Stay tuned...

1/14/20 Thread #23 (Curse of the Fire God #1), 2020, 16x20" Oil and Inkjet on Panel. I think Woody Guthrie would approve. Available

1/13/20 Hot off the studio wall: Thread #26 (Crowd Dynamics II), 2020, 22x30", Oil & Inkjet on Paper. Available

1/13/20 Two Thread Series studies for the Woody Guthrie piece Curse of the Fire God. Both are 12x16", Oil and Inkjet on Paper. Stay tuned for the WIP 30x45" fully realized piece on birch panel! Available

1/13/20 Nostalgic in image and palette in the latest Thread Series study. Under image is from a found vintage photograph of a family posing on a bridge circa 1920's. I wonder what paths brought them to and from this captured moment. Thread #17 (Bridge), 2020, 16x12", Oil and Inkjet on Paper. Available

1/7/20 For any doubters, a little evidence that I paint these Thread Series pieces without masking (except for the borders, of course)

12/10/19 New Thread Series piece, fresh from the studio. Thread #15 (Happy Beat), 2019, 12x12", Oil on Vintage Album Cover (record included). Available

12/5/20 Here's one more WIP Woody Guthrie Thread Series work on paper, all dressed up and ready for paint.

12/3/19 Thought you might want a peek at the next Thread Series piece. It's Woody Guthrie again, this time with his fascist-killing machine. All laid out and ready for paint. Stay tuned...

11/26/19 Woody Guthrie is in for some rough treatment as I prepare to get all Thread Series on him. This one is on maple panel. (Click the pic to see the looping thread pattern.) Stay tuned...

11/19/19 And let's not forget the the long-gone and much-missed Darby Crash, starring in this one: Thread #12 (Gimme Gimme), 2019, 12x16", Oil and Inkjet on Paper. Available

11/19/19 Elliott Smith joins the party. This one is: Thread #13 (Follow Me Down), 2019, 12x16", Oil and Inkjet on Paper. Available

11/19/19 Here's how Egon turned out after the full Thread Series treatment: Thread #11 (Egon I), 2019, 12x16", Oil and Inkjet on Paper. Available

10/31/19 My friend Egon Schiele is getting the Thread Series treatment. I think he'd approve.

10/21/19 Some wild s*** going down in the studio, people. Stay tuned as this group of weird source material transforms and evolves into completed artworks...

9/23/19 Another repurpose of an older work of mine from 2009, in service of representing the random. Thread #6 (East), 2019, 17x25", Oil and Charcoal on Panel

9/13/19 Further exploration in representing the random, this time using a couple of my small works from way back in '09. Thread #4 (Lobby) and #5 (Balcony), 2019, 9x13", Oil and Charcoal on Panel.

8/14/19 Exploring visual representations of the random. First couple complete! Thread #1 (Twist Away), 2019, 16x20", Oil on Panel, and Thread #2 (BlueAlmostBlack), 2019, 22x30", Oil on Paper. Available

10/23/18 Fresh from the studio: Again Again, 2018, 25x33", Oil and Charcoal on Panel. Throwing text in the mix in the Negation Series. Available

9/28/18 Fresh from the studio - That Thing That Follows You, 2018, 13x51x19" (two panels), Oil and Charcoal on Panel. Can turn the corner or hang straight! Available

9/9/18 Just sent some fragments of paintings on paper down to the amazing SoCal collage artistTm Gratkowski for a collaboration. Can't wait to see what he comes up with!

8/29/18 New painting in the works, with Twiggy in full Studio Supervisor mode.

8/27/18 Big box of paintings on its way to Spain for Galeria Javier Roman in Malaga, then on to the Antwerp Art Fair. Buen viaje!

3/29/18 What a treat to see the amazing Badir McCleary of Art Above Reality fame today in SF! That's us in front of my Eight Pieces, 2016 - a bundle of 1x4s stacked together, forming the painted figure. Available

3/1/18 Artworks all crated up and headed for NYC for SCOPE and Art on Paper next week with CK Contemporary.

2/28/18 Shift #3, 2018, a brand new painting on paper, on its way to NYC for Art on Paper next month!

1/24/18 Another batch of paintings heading for Israel. Go get 'em, Mika Contemporary Art!

8/19/17 Getting there... Never made 18 paintings at once before - phew!

6/2/17 I've got some work to do...

5/11/17 My studio, buried in Spring glory

4/19/17 The 3D elements of a new piece coming together in the studio. Stay tuned...

3/8/17 The amazing Jay Daniel at Black Cat Studios shooting Tethered, 2017. Great working with a pro.

1/26/17 Foggy morning view from the studio yesterday