New Paintings 2008:  Hard by the Dim Lake

The origins of this image are more personal than those of many of the other new paintings.  Detail 2 offers a clear look at the superimposed markers for successive -- and distinct -- spans of time.  The theme of historicism through facture is the same, but here I tried to tie it to the legacy of 1950s New York gesture art: the dessicated bones of a long-dead pioneer . . .    

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