Equinox opened on the fall equinox, after a torrential thunderstorm that broke a two-year drought, and a day after the Jewish New Year. It marks the end of a cycle of work for me, and otherwise seems a fitting and portentious marker to end an old cycle and welcome in a new one.
My work for the show -- mostly narratives in settings of oceans, wetlands, and other waterways -- comes from a combination of dream imagery and re-imaginings of stories I remember from Genesis. In these works I'm interested in emotions and gestures and in the subtle tensions and interactions that occur between characters; the water itself ranges from oppressive to rejuvenating. Molesky just got back from a year working with the painter Odd Nerdrum, and his paintings, also narratives of a personal nature, have grown more subtle and refined, and have taken on the sunset-palette of the big man.
Here are some pictures from this weekend's opening (some of my paintings can be seen here):
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Installing Floodplain. Gallery assistants David and Cathy, with me in the middle.
Nicole and I in front of Encounter in the Garden and Molesky's Landscape with Girl Falling off Bicycle.
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Gallery owner Terry Martin with an Oscar winner (for costume design; this is LA after all) in front of my painting New World.
Nicole and Reiner in front of Lady of the Lake, a study for Floodplain.
A happy red dot next to my painting Pelican Flight.