Compositions in Color  (2022 - present)

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These are oil paintings on top of digitally printed color slides of older photographs I've come across at my job from the archives of retired art professors. Before printing them large on canvas, I initially alter some of their colors and add brushstroke textures to them in Photoshop. Then I print and stretch them so that I can spread oil paint over them with a palette knife. The paint application responds to the forms and color as I build out a new composition with it. It's intuitive and fast-paced, and I work this way because the transformation is unpredictable yet remains grounded. These photographs were once selected and presented to students to teach them something related to their studies in art. Now I hope they generate a notion of the sublime within all of our own psyches.