“For me, the ocean provides not only a place to relax among others but to be immersed in the energy and vitality of youth, nature, and interpersonal dynamics in the most intimate and carefree way, while reflecting on the transient nature of life.  It is transcendent and existential.” 

Abstraction in this context becomes a door to the unknown, as watery, calligraphic brushstrokes float freely from canvas to canvas over beachgoers and swimmers, overpainting populated panoramas with emotionally charged configurations, all set beneath intensely vivid blue-green skies.  Waves crash in the background of each sun-drenched beachscape as fleeting moments typically observed only from a distance are stopped in time and brought into immediate proximity to the viewer.  Exquisitely rendered and brimming with sexual energy, the central large panel “Surfside” measures 8’ across. A sophisticated arrangement of interpersonal relationships, artistic virtuosity, and raw, intimate portraiture, a group of youths relax together under colorful explosions of abstract gestures that fly across the upper portions of the painting. In other large paintings filling the front of the gallery, bright abstractions and interlacing compositions shift ceaselessly from image to image with painterly finesse. In “Summer Daydream” a daughter is lost in thought while reading a paperback novel, her mother and friend in a deep sleep under their bright umbrella, glassy, curvilinear movements of abstraction hover over their private oasis.  In “Weekenders, Memorial Day” a young couple dominates the foreground with their sexily positioned bodies on American flag beach blankets under scattered arrangements of broken brushstrokes.