Loading PictureOn October 30, 2011, I meandered into my studio, tore a sheet out of a sketchbook and taped it to my drawing board. I reached for a stick of graphite and a PinkPearl eraser, not knowing why or what, and my hand began to draw. After an intense year working on my latest series of Reflected-Light paintings, with their hyper-intense colors, this black and white medium seemed a calming balm to my eyes and thoughts. Having dealt with landscapes awash in circular irrigated fields crisscrossed with linear road patterns, the first drawing was both familiar and surprising: a trifurcated circle stabbed by a horizontal line, all composed of strongly gestural strokes. Inexplicably, a title for this series settled in my brain: “MoonFields.” Over the next four months I returned to these drawings at intervals, one image leading me to the next in an almost Zen-like balancing act of self imposed moderation of shapes, gestures and textures. All the while I wondered from where these images sprang, puzzled less by their final state than by the actual genesis of the iconography. The drawings led me, almost calling my hand, from one work to the next. On completing “MoonFields XVII,” it became clear that I was in the process of creating a visual “Rondo,” leading back to the first drawing, though with completely different awareness. “MoonFields XX” completed the cycle. Why twenty works? My “Sinister Drawings” suite consists of twenty images, so perhaps that was my mental directive. Or possibly a subconscious harkening back to the plastic sheets that held twenty slides influenced the decision to stop at twenty. Whichever it is, I am happy with how it turned out.

 


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MoonFields I - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields II - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields III - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields IV - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields - Three Suites after Images by Jerome Rothenberg and Arie Galles

MoonFields I

MoonFields II

MoonFields III

MoonFields IV


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MoonFields V - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields VI - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields VII - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields VIII - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields V

MoonFields VI

MoonFields VII

MoonFields VIII


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MoonFields IX - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite  

MoonFields X - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XI - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XII - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields IX

MoonFields X

MoonFields XI

MoonFields XII


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MoonFields XIII - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XIV - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XV - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XVI - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XIII

MoonFields XIV

MoonFields XV

MoonFields XVI


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MoonFields XV`II - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XVIII - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XIX - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XX - 18.25 X 12 - 2011 - Graphite

MoonFields XVII

MoonFields XVIII

MoonFields XIX

MoonFields XX

 

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