Security Blanket

This is the first of a series of paintings in a sort of op-art style that I hope to one day produce as a quilt - hence the name.

"Security Blanket I", 36"x36", oil on canvas

Blue and Gray

This painting hangs in my professional office. Of all the works that have hung there, this one has drawn more comments than any other. Why?
History paintings were at one time all the rage. Since the photographic process had not yet come along, painters were the visual recorders of history. But for the last 150 years photography has taken over that job.
This oil on canvas painting (24" x 48", 2008) is based on a photo made infamous during the war in Viet Nam. It is in a sense a history painting of a history photo of a historical event. The blue and gray colors recall America's own mid-nineteenth century civil war as well as the one erupting at home during the Viet Nam war.

Rose

I started to count the number of triangles in this painting. Then I decided it would take longer than it did to complete it. I estimate over 5000, though.
I use the triangles as an anti-grid. Although the image consists of individual units (triangles), they are irregular and individual, each triangle contributing its own important function to make the whole. This is in contrast to a gridded or pixelated image, in which all units are identical except for color and intensity. Can you place the metaphor?

"Untitled (Rose)", Acrylic on canvas, 48" x 48"