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EARLY WORK When making my art, I think about images. Sometimes an image would come from something I read, a remembrance from the past, television or just something cliche and then just let the elements of design happen and when finished, have something original. Whether the art is original or not, you've got to think it is original and that possibly other artist could learn something from it. There are times when I feel there has to be a message and times when it just has to have beauty, but always in some way unique. In my Early Work, the first images on the site, I was concerned with things relevant; power, religion, sex, celebrity, health and the environment. A body of work, some pieces two dimensional, some three dimensional, I feel is cohesive. |
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The Truth | Big Time Operators | Manhattan Melody... | |
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| Balkan Follys | Balancing Act | Bingo Jesus - 1993 | Timepiece | The Wishing Bone |
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| Hoodsie | Jerusalem O Jerusalem | Cubist Metamorphosis | Bijou | Cross-Town Boogie |
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| Grafitus | American Totem | Nolan Ryan | Swiss Navy Desk | The Guitar lesson |
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HOME EARLY WORK FINGERPRINTS TARTANS RESEARCH STUDY PHOTOGRAPHY LATE WORK ABOUT DENNIS CONTACT FINGERPRINTS
The Fingerprint Series came about from working with sandblasting. Where fingerprints have depth, sandblasting seemed the obvious method of creating that depth on a much larger scale. Within that scale, I recognized an image which looked to be landscape, hence the manipulations of that image to produce the five landscape paintings. The five other fingerprint paintings are just great images, one or two having humor, another, Whitemanspeak, having satirical content. |
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Silver Linings |
Big Rock Candy Mt. | Islands | Cathedral | Northern Night Lights
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 TARTANS The Tartan Series is a result of painting a portrait of my mother, a Scot. Upon painting the tartan sash she wore for a Scottish organization, I saw the possibilities in weaving bands of color perpendicular within each other and by abstracting them somewhat, I could take something familiar and show another way at looking at the familiar. The first paintings staying close to the tartan with later paintings moving more toward the abstract, dabbling in the footsteps of another with Double Dripper and something relevant with Shredded Tartan and Diary Tartan. |
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| Magi | Black & White with the Blues |
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| Agamemnon | Rondo |
Shredded Tartan | Double Dripper |
HOME EARLY WORK FINGERPRINTS TARTANS RESEARCH STUDY PHOTOGRAPHY LATE WORK ABOUT DENNIS CONTACT RESEARCH STUDY The Research Study Series is a result of answering an advertisement looking for someone healthy for a 32 day study on sleep. After completing the study and told I was an excellent subject, I later went into a 10 day study on sleep deprivation. The five pieces shown are a result of those studies. |
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| Exit Stage Left | Circadian Floor Show | Before and After | Split Second Sunset |
HOME EARLY WORK FINGERPRINTS TARTANS RESEARCH STUDY PHOTOGRAPHY LATE WORK ABOUT DENNIS CONTACT CANNON FODDER Computer enhanced digital photography of graffiti on memorial Civil War cannons |
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| Deco Cross #1 | Criss-Crosses | Acrylic Cross | Skeletal Cross |
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