Tag: Paper

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Paintings

Genie portrait

Blue and black dog, somewhat abstract, on a grey-white mat
Genie in graphite, crayon, and watercolor

The Dog

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Paintings

Blue dog (Genie)

Watery drawing of a cyan and purple dog with big ears against a green background
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Letterforms Paintings

Thank You Cards

Squares, trapezoids, and other straight-sided shapes fit together like tetris. It’s a lot of right angles. The shapes are colored so you can just make out “Than/k you” if you squint, maybe. Letters are in bright warm pink and orange, and non-letters are cool blues, aqua, and green.
Thank You 1

Watercolors without curves.

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Drawings Letterforms

Talmud Segment

Calligraphy: "you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. —the Talmud"
If ever there was a mantra to say

I only know the Talmud from being ecstatically proud of my cousin Saydie at her Bat Mitzvah, pretty much. I don’t know from religion. My friend Aviva, however, once tweeted this tiny excerpt, right when the world was in the middle of an astonishing need for civic engagement (which hasn’t ended). I think 2017 or […]

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Books

The Book of Contrasts

Book of Contrasts cover featuring hand-drawn type
The Book of Contrasts

Experimental prints from found textures.

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Drawings

Smiling-frowning shadow of the rubber plant

Ink on paper, 14 x 11.75 in., late 2000s. Abstract drawing made by tracing shadows moving across the floor in Middletown, CT.

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Prints

July, July

etching printed on a spread from a calendar; image is a portrait of a Black man in profile with lines indicating shapes and forms
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Prints

Over 9′

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Drawings

Salt a pretzel, nostalgia

two human heads floating amongst overlapping/colliding swirls, bursts, and symbols
Untitled drawing, ink and watercolor on paper, 1998-or so.

From the archive, I’m guessing 1998: a doodle featuring some floating heads, the Steve Grossman classic amoeba I’ve been doodling since I was 8, and a carrot. Am I nostalgic now for the nineties or was there already nostalgia built into this? The eyelashes look like it was part of the original drawing. Either way […]