Paintings
My work is a passionate and colorful homage to the human form. It brings together an assortment of faces and bodies, ranging from the meager to the muscular and from the graceful to the grotesque. My eye is respectful but also ruthlessly penetrating. It is irresistibly drawn to the psyche. I may be a painter of people but I am also a painter of souls. In each of my portraits I ask the question, Who is the wearer of this seemingly unique suit of skin stretched across a frame of flesh and bone?
I try not only to render my subjects’ surface features but also to render visible, as much as possible, the unseen and elusive occupants within. At first, my brushwork comes off as fierce and lacerating, as if I wanted to tear the canvas apart. Upon closer examination, a lightness and tenderness of touch become evident, as if my brush gave form, finally, and paradoxically, to the immaterial. From portrait to portrait though, my various interpretations of the human soul bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. While we vastly differ in our physical predicament, we are remarkably similar within. Perhaps we are all possessed by the very same single soul.
man with green skin and an attitude
30x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
the benefactor and the punisher
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with blue lip & ponytail
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
red and blue nude
36x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
blue nude with blue flowers
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
hearing voices
22x30" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with hand up in the air
36x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man in light blue
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with cigarette
30x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman-holding-man–2005–30×24
smoker making eye contact
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with fingers on knee
36x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
face with teeth
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with weapon against black
48x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with hands on his hips
36x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with knife
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with red lip and claws
48x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
man distancing himself
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man in white loincloth
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with long arm against black
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
girl with pink flowers
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
girl with red and blue lips
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with knife
30x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with red elbow
24x16" oil/acrylic on board
nude with red nipples
36x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man-with-blue-telephone–2003–22×30
red nude against white and blue
24x18" oil/acrylic on board
man with open hand
28x22" oil/acrylic on linen
red nude with white flowers
24x17" oil/acrylic on board
girl with red hand
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
man making eye contact
20x16" oil/acrylic on canvas
nude with blue cheek and red flowers
24x16" oil/acrylic on board
red nude with dark hair
24x17" oil/acrylic on board
nude with white breast
28x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
girl with headdress
20x16" oil/acrylic on canvas
man behind hand
24x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
man in silk shirt
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
red nude against light blue
24x16" oil/acrylic on board
woman with claws
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with fist
24x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
man-with-orange-arm-against-red–2006–48×36
nude with yellow hand
34x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
warlord
48x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
irritated man
22x30" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with twisted arms
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
girl with pink flower against green
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with long face
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with machete
22x28" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with two arms
24x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with hand on her shoulder
48x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with blue eyes
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
green dancer against red
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
I own you
24x16" oil/acrylic on board
nude with two red fingers
28x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
dancer with red cheek
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
dancer with green eyelid
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
shirtless man with an attitude
20x30" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with machete and ill intentions
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
man yelling
28x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
nude with red cheek
36x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man in yellow
20x16" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with clenched fists
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with black hair
24x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
man-with-yellow-nose–2004–18×14
woman with blue nose
20x16" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with contemplative eyes
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
man-against-red–2003–28×22
man in white shirt
28x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman against blue
24x17" acrylic on board
yellow toothed man with dog
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with yellow arms
30x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
extended hand
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
you make me cry
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with orange skin and weapon
36x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with green skin
20x16" oil/acrylic on canvas
blue nude against green
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with sharp wrist
24x30" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with blue face
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with saw and cigarette
28x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with curved blade
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
red nude with blue flowers
24x16" oil/acrylic on board
man pulling his mouth open
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
man holding woman
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
nude with blue fingers
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with necklace
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with long arm against red
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
you don’t know me
man with chain
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with crossed fingers
28x22" oil/acrylic on linen
girl with red lips against yellow
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
nude with pink breast
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
green dancer against yellow
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with strand of hair
24x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with cigarette and green arms
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with yellow nose
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
man looking downward
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with red hands
24x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
irritated woman
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with dark lips
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
locked fingers
24x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with white fist
48x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
outstretched hands
24x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman against red and white
36x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man in orange
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with red arms
20x16" oil/acrylic on board
red girl with green lip
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
red man with chain
30x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
let me shoulder your guilt
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with gray-blue skin
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man kissing woman
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
nude with ponytail and flowers
28x22" oil/acrylic on linen
man in yellow shirt
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
nude with red cheek and curly flowers
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with claws
36x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
primal scream
24x30" oil/acrylic on canvas
hold me
24x16" oil/acrylic on board
man-with-hand-stretched-out–2006–48×36
man with open palm
16x12" oil/acrylic on canvas
man-with-pointed-ear–2004–18×14
man with blue hair
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man-joining-fingertips–2005–30×24
shirtless man
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
dancer against green
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman with blue lip & nipple
24x18" oil/acrylic on canvas
woman looking sideways
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man singing
18x14" oil/acrylic on canvas
man in profile
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
nude with orange arm
28x22" oil/acrylic on linen
man with knuckles
18x36" oil/acrylic on canvas
man behind rectangle
28x22" oil/acrylic on linen
man in fear
30x20" oil/acrylic on canvas
sad-woman–2004–30×24
woman with two flowers
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas
man-with-red-phone–2003–24×30
man with black telephone
22x28" oil/acrylic on canvas
the glance
28x22" oil/acrylic on canvas
man with yellow hands
30x24" oil/acrylic on canvas