Music, Writings.
 
 

The Circus, a parody representing the art Department at WIU

Oil on canvas. sold in Australia in 1982

The Red Roof, Painted in the RedHill section of Brisbane in 1981

Toga conducting Acrylic and oils, Brisane Australia 1981 In collection of Artist

Neil Painting, oils painted in Macomb when Neil Chassman, Don Hetzel{then a grad student} and myself shared a studio for a summer in Macomb. This painting illustrates my sometimes use of heavy impasto paint. My style which inherits a degree of Expressionism from my teacher the late Karl Zerbe (a student of the world renoun German Expressionist Max Beckman). I studied with Karl Zerbe, David Aaronson, who has shown in Boston and New York and is represented in major museums and Reed Kay who just had an exhibition in Boston. Though I have delved into the realm of abstract painting I always return to the figurative mode painting landscapes, still lives

and people.

NeilReclining Nude, another painting in oil from the Macomb Studio. We all drew from the model whom we hired privately and I did the painting from one of my drawings. These were done around

1978

Brisbane Landscape, This was done on one of the terraces that break Brisbane in many sections. It is one of the hilliest major cities in the world with hills as steep as the ones in San Francisco.

Artist as Prophet. I did three selfportraits in the Macomb Studio and this one appeared to Neil Chassman to resemble the intense look of a prophet which is how the title came about. We had the job of watering the plants for the students we were subleasing the studio from so I figured I could put them to good use as grist for my artistic mill.. My paintings can be broken up into a few periods, the school paintings which included my European Traveling scholarship paintings and the ones I did in fifth year as well as some as an undergraduate at the Boston Museum school. Then there were the Boston rooftop series which were painted from the three appartments that I rented in Boston. I also did still lives and figure paintings at the time but was mostly known as a landscape painter. Then there was a group of large abstract paintings painted in 1962 just as I was turning 30 years old and in 1967 a move to Illinois which resulted in an excperimental period which lasted until my return to the figuritive mode with the Macomb Sudio and then the Brisbane paintings. In 1971 there began the move into the world of computer art and finally in conjunction with Toga the Develpment of Togolot Music. I will also share my writings as this hompepage develops.

Computer Art my move into computer art began in 1971 with when my father suggested we enter a computer art contest. He programmed about 50 programs and I did over a thousand computer drawings with a plotter and a small computer HP computer that had only 10,000 bites.  In 1992 he bought a 486 pc and I did a large number of works using Windows Paint and finally Photostyler.  I include a number of the paint drawings below.

Apian

Gallery

The images in "Emirs" were scanned from magazines using a hand held black and white scanner.

Hearings, was inspired by Senate Hearings being shown on TV.

SSport

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