Artifacts of the unseen. Hybrid digital/physical painting.

Clearing

A plume of smoke rises ominously from a distant grove of trees. A bush is mysteriously lit up alongside a white barn. Based on a cover painting for Charles Baxter's novel "Shadow Play." Digital/physical hybrid painting.

Burning

Web 3 offers a safe creative space for long ignored digital artists to find community and refuge, and for many it offers a way out of isolation, anonymity, and even poverty. 

The Way Out

An experiment is left in situ on a tabletop as factories in a distant riverside city belch plumes of smoke into the night. Digital/physical hybrid painting.

Acid Test

Physical/digital hybrid painting. A 1989 kitchen is illuminated at night, a telephone is off the hook as a pot of water boils over on the stove. A light in a distant room can be seen out the window of a darkened dining room in the foreground. The painting on the wall is a mirror into the past, painted half a decade earlier and depicting a different table that once stood where the current trestle table resides. Artifacts of an unseen presence.

Late Dinner

Physical/digital hybrid painting in triptych format. A shrine-like opened refrigerator illuminates a kitchen on a snowy winter evening, light streams up from a staircase hidden from view on the left, a fireplace emanates a warm light into a distant room, and an opened door to a porch leaves questions unanswered. 

Evening Ritual

As climate change continues to present an ominous threat to the global ecosystem - ice caps melt, oceans rise, forests burn and bird/insect populations dwindle or become extinct - and the time left to make the necessary changes fades away

Fire and Ice

Digitally manipulated painting

Dualities: stillness and movement, warmth and cold, fragility and stability, light and dark, soft and harsh. A pair of swans resing on the ice along the Susquehanna at night.

Resting Swans

Wunderkammer V2

Digital/physical hybrid painting. A portrait of our infant daughter sleeping on a mattress by our bedroom window. A black dress is laid out on the bed, a symbol of the woman she will eventually grow to be. The open window becomes a metaphor for her life's journey and the world out there she will face full of challenges and uncertainty.

This work has had a long and complex history, beginning as a small poloroid taken in the moment in 1998. This photo was later translated into a graphite drawing that was then scanned and manipulated into a full color digital painting. This digital painting served as a model for a 6 color hand-pulled stone lithograph which was produced for the Corcoran 2005 Print Portfolio and exhibited at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington D.C. The print was acquired by many museums, including the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress and San Francisco Art Museum to name a few. The lithograph was later scanned and reworked digitally, transforming it into a night image for this NFT.

Elizabeth Quinn Sleeping

Nocturnal

Seven Rooms

Physical/digital hybrid painting. The Susquehanna River briefly flows east/west before bending north toward Harrisburg and Three Mile Island. The jets continually mark up the sky with their contrails as they approach/leave the nearby airport.

Flight Pattern Study

A jet trail streaks across the sky behind two pine trees lit up by the setting sun. Digital painting based on a pastel drawing.

The Return

Windmills churn out green energy on the distant ridge, a jet's contrail streaks across the sky, sunlight lights up large chunks of ice in the foreground. Nineteenth century sublime landscape meets the 21st century and web3.

Wind and Ice, Susquehanna

Landscape views from the studio and surrounding Susquehanna River Valley. Physical/digital hybrids

Burning the midnight oil in the studio on a winter night. Physical/digital hybrid with digitally manipulated 17th century Dutch frame.

Working Late

Susquehanna River Valley

A makeshift ladder leads to the unknown in a dark abandoned house. Physical/digital hybrid based on a pastel painting.

Loft

Editions

Based on a small pastel study of an approaching storm cloud.

Rising Cloud

"You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.”

- Eckhart Tolle.

Last Light

Cloud Series

Digital painting with a hint of glitch animation. Based on a dream of a night excursion on the Susquehanna River

Night Voyage

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."  Allen Ginsberg
A series of nocturnes based in the Susquehanna River Valley. Physical/digital hybrid paintings.

A blood red Harvest Moon rises above the Susquehanna River. Physical/digital hybrid painting

Harvest Moon

Chasing the Moon

View of the Susquehanna River Valley at dusk. Hybrid digital/physical painting.

River Valley, Dusk

Digital painting based on a bird's eye view of the city of Lancaster, PA. Contemplating the complexities and challenges of political/social divides facing Americans following the 2024 election.

Church and State

Open Editions

Night Woods

Nocturne

Uploads

Feeling the storm. Torrential rain lashes the side of the studio, a clogged downspout overflows, and lightning flashes in the distance.  Based on studies from life - digitally painted combining multiple layers of scanned paintings and extensive photoshop work.

Rainstorm

Animated version of my painting "Isosceles". Adding in the dimension of time...

Isosceles

SuperRare

The sun rises over the Susquehanna River in the distance on a snowy December morning. Digital/physical hybrid painting.

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