"'Shroom For Moore"

 A Shrine of the Tines (with Figure in Recline)

9 in.x 12 in. analog mixed-media surreal collage on spray-painted canvas with botanical catalog clippings and Mod Podge sealant

Please accept this tribute to summer’s bounty — and midcentury abstract sculpter Henry Moore’s “Reclining Figure” (1951), in lower center.

"A Lot To Swallow"

  - UPON ENTERING MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC SEASON 2025 -

11 in. x 14 in. surreal analog collage incorporating vintage cookbook imagery on a black canvas board sealed with glossy Mod Podge

To borrow from the Applebee’s commercial motto, we’re “eatin’ good in the slain bird hood”—?  Okay, that’s a stretch.  But I know those in the ornithologist circles, both professional and amateur, will at least appreciate the array here.

"Pondering"

18 in. x 12 in. mixed-media analog collage on conjoined mounted canvases with metallic black & bronze washi tape sides and a wonky, bumpy surface (from a past project that was covered-up using glossy black enamel spray-paint) scattered with 8 mm black sequins + Mod Podge sealant 

#botanicalcollage #waterlillies #watercress #surrealart #amidstnature #ennui

Revisiting an older still-life —with an additional element + reduced overall measurements

Might this qualify as Pop Art?

“A patient’s muddled perspective of Renfrew shaded by bewilderment, resentment, and the passage of six years” (spring of 2010 and 2025)

A rather crude attempt at trompe l'oeil, this older “silver platter still-life” I decided to revisit after it was returned from a friend’s restaurant in Tenant's Harbor this spring, where it had been on display for eagle-eyed patrons.  An acrylic painting of many thinly applied layers —note the somewhat warty, plastered texture— it’s a project I’d yet to find satisfaction with until I finally took the leap and cropped it in size from the rectangular 16 inch x 12 inch to align with the reduced dimensions of a 10 inch square black mounted canvas that it was amateurishly hot-glued to.  At any rate, the central tray of sweet American junk food including Kellogg Pop Tarts and various Hostess snack cakes has been updated with the addition of a melted popsicle in our nation’s colors, rendered this weekend as an ode to the sloppy, reckless handling of our imperfect democracy.

"The Optics of Femininity"

Polly Firestone demonstrated genteel elegance as the wife of a successful tire magnate nearly a century ago

 

10 in. x 10 in. analog collage of a LIFE Magazine portrait & museum catalog of abstract modern art with hand cut floral details on square black canvas, sealed using striped washi tape & glossy Mod Podge

#abstractcollage #opticalillusionart #surrealism #firestonetires