Art Archives 1990 through 1999
Archived artworks displayed on this webpage include abstract paintings, relief paintings, wall sculptures, and landscapes created in Lubbock, Texas and Thousand Oaks, California. The earlier works, from about 1990 to 1992 were Lubbock art, created at the end of several cycles in my life.This art archive page is a visual record of perhaps the most event-filled decade of my life, both personally and creatively.
My wife and I split up in 1992 (after almost 15 years together) and I moved to southern California. I was in shock, and wanted to be far from everything I knew, as my old life distintegrated.
I began to create art again rather quickly. In the Thousand Oaks, California bedroom I rented from the Pobirs family, I set up a small studio, and my storage unit became a usable woodshop space. In my "California Studio" my bas-relief paintings moved to a new level. The pieces, "Frozen Mind-Field" and "Big Rock Candy Conflagration" were born there.
The amazing scenery of California, two earthquakes, 1993 fires, and the wonderful people I met were great influences on me as an artist. But my mother contracted leukemia, and my grandmother had a fatal heart attack. My bas-relief paintings were progressing nicely, but I had no gallery connection in California at that time. And, I really needed to return to Texas to spend the little time my mother had left - with her.
1996 was an extremely productive year for me. My return to Texas did not slow me down creatively for long. I entered a period of great creative output, and reconnected with earlier Houston connections. I got some art commissions; I created a fantastic art table and the incredible room installation, and some of my best large-scale relief paintings to date.
The rest of the decade was quite productive for me artistically. The few bas-relief paintings shown here were picked to give just an idea of the creative adventure of the period.
Paintings and Wall Sculptures
Dynamo Flow
Corporate Art
Commission
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Lewis Cube
acrylic paint on masonite panel
42 x 42 x 1 inch
1990
Frozen Mind-Field
acrylic paint on wood
50 x 27 x 5-1/2 inches
1993
Big Rock
Candy Conflagration
acrylic paint on wood
16 x 12 x 2-1/2 inches
1993
Camouflage
acrylic paint on wood
27 x 19 x 4 inches
1994
Panoply
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acrylic paint on wood
28 x 22 x 6 inch
1997
Heliodor
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acrylic paint on wood
90 x 54 x 14 inches
1997
Heliodor - detail
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acrylic paint on wood
36 x 24 inches (approx)
1997
Creation-Preservation-
Destruction
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acrylic paint on wood
89 x 48 x 7 inches
1997
Metamorphosis
acrylic paint on wood
60 x 22 x 1-3/4 inches
1997
Calm Before
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acrylic paint on wood
44 x 22 x 2-1/2 inches
1997
Singing to the One
in Hiding
acrylic paint on wood
44 x 32 x 2-3/4 inches
1998
X or Y Not
acrylic paint on wood
16 x 28 x 1-1/2 inches
1998
SpiralScape
acrylic paint on wood
24 x 20 inches
1998
Reflection
acrylic paint on wood
18 x 12 x 1-3/4 inches
1998
Wheels Within Wheels
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acrylic paint on wood
28 x 22 x 3 inches
1999
