My idea is that explicit narratives tend to overshadow intuition, gut feelings and the profound experience of mystery and joy that a painting has the potential to provide. My forms and marks, with their apparent weight, particular vitality, and inertia live in an environment I try to render luminous and transparent. I inscribe, blot, stroke, scrape and drip. The primary focus is to convey rhythm and cadence through color, line, and forms. As such, they are purely expressive or lyrical, with no other intended narration. My paintings are there for viewers to run their mind free. My most recent paintings are moving toward a desire for increased openness, letting color and space within the piece play a more prominent role in achieving a balanced and lively visual environment, where forms, lines and marks coexist. My focus is on the complex relationship between forms, marks, color and depth; how they interact to form and balance the painting. The encaustic medium involves a lot of scraping through multiple layers of wax. The final product is what remains, getting to the essence of the piece.
EDUCATION
1983 BFA Rhode Island School of Design
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
Gail Severn Gallery Ketchum ID.
2022
David Lusk Gallery Memphis TN
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC
2021
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum ID.
David Lusk Gallery Nashville TN
2020
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC
2019
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis TN
2017
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2016
Alan Avery Art Company
2012
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2011
Newzones Contemporary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Arden Gallery, Boston,MA
2010
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2009
Winston Wachter, Seattle, WA.
2008
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum , ID
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2007
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum , ID
2006
Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Paintings, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2005
Lyon College, Batesville AR
Paintings, Gail Severn, Ketchum, ID
2004
Paintings in Encaustic, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2003
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
(Rana Rochat and Ed Moses)
Recent Works, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2002
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2001
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016
Art MRKT San Francisco
2015
Art MRKT San Francisco
2014
Art MRKT San Francisco
Abstraction Alan Avery Art Company
2013
Art MRKT San Francisco
Paper-works on Alan Avery Art Company
2012
Art MRKT San Francisco
Dallas Art Fair
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2011
Art Miami
Dallas Art Fair
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2010
Art Miami
Hidell Brooks, Charlotte, SC
Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
Newzones, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Art Chicago
Dallas Art Fair
Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2009
Works on Paper. The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2008
Works on Paper. The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Works on Paper, New York, NY
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006
Chicago Art Expo Scope, Miami, FL
San Francisco International Art Fair
Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Selected Artists, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2005
Convergence of Contemporary Painting, Jacksonville Museum of
Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL.
Fay Gold 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Scope, New York, NY
Palm Beach Contemporary Art Show, Palm Beach, FL
2004
Gallery Artists, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta,GA
San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco,CA
2003
The Armory Show, New York, NY 15th Anniversary
Works on Paper, The Park Avenue Armory, NY
Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, FL
2002
San Francisco International Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
2001
Palm Beach International Art Fair,
Palm Beach, FL Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Selected Collections
Dubai Consulate
The Landers Firm (law), Memphis, TN
Pacific Peninsula Group (development), San Francisco CA
Clark & Clark (corporate real estate), Memphis, TN
Kevin Hyneman Co. (residential development), Memphis TN
Cannon Wright Blount (CPAs), Memphis, TN
Odom Land Management (hotels), Shreveport, AL
Mercer Capital (investments), Memphis, TN
NSA Corporation, Memphis, TN
Paragon National Bank, Memphis,TN
Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA
Blue Point Restaurant, Atlanta, GA
FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN
Hyatt Hotels, Washington, DC
Intercontinental Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Las
Vegas, NV; King of Prussia, PA; Atlanta, GA
Nordstrom, Charlotte, NC; Austin, TX; Atlanta, GA
Pfizer, Memphis, TN
Saks Fifth Avenue, Miami, FL
Safeco Insurance Company, Atlanta, GA
Southern Energy Corp., Atlanta, GA
Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA
Equifax, Atlanta, GA
Fidelity Investments, Memphis, TN
Hyde Foundation, Memphis, TN
Cummins Mid-South Headquarters, Memphis, TN
Paragon Bank, Raleigh, NC
Winston and Strawn Law Firm, San Francisco, CA
Barry Real Estate, Atlanta, GA
Isakson Barnhardt Developers, Atlanta,GA
Publications and Catalogs:
Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution, November 2006
Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 2006
Memphis Flyer, February 2006
Vessels of Meanings, an essay by Jerry Cullum, September 2006
New American Paintings, July 2003
Memphis Business Journal
Abstraction: Ed Moses and Rana Rochat, Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Lewis and Clark College, November 2001
New American Paintings 2001