Like a colored blackout, these paintings begin with a photocollage, printed on either canvas or paper, providing the basic chassis (or “underpainting”) of the thing. Paint (typically acrylic paint) invades the base image, sometimes augmenting/altering it, sometimes eventually obliterating it. 

TIEPOLO'S SHOES
​Water color paint and colored pencil in/on paper printed photo-collage

 

TIEPOLO - ALLEGORY OF MAN, ANIMALS, AND GRASS  (2013)
A cover version of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Allegory of the Planets and Continents, 1752
acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

​STUFFIES - I WANT THEM ALL - 2  (2014)
acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

 

NYC FIRE  (2014)
acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

TEDDY'S HEARTBREAK  (2014)
acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

GAUDI'S DREAM  (2011)
acrylic paint on paper & in photocollage

  

MATTA'S FIELD TRIP  (2011)
​​acrylic paint on paper & in photocollage

VENGO VENDING  (2013)​
acrylic paint on paper & in photocollage

BROILER STREET  (2013)
​acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

​WHO'S BUOYS - 2  (2013)
acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

WONDERLAND  (2014)
​​​​acrylic paint on paper & in photocollage

STAN'S ROPE PILE  (2013)
​​acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

GO FIGURE - 1   (with Nat Chard)  (2014)
​acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

GO FIGURE - 4 (with Nat Chard)  (2014)
acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage

 

WRITING IN THE ROCK  (2013)
acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage​

ROYAL ASTRONOMY TOWER  (2012)
​​acrylic paint on canvas & in photocollage​