More from the archives

Here are two oldies with a nice creepy vibe, one from UMass and one from SFAI:


These stairs are a digital collage (note the ephemeral text in the sky) turned into a photoetching (on zinc) printed on rag. The photo of the stairs was borrowed from my friend Caitlin.



This is another baseball and war themed piece from grad school (2004), oil-based monoprint on rag.

Happy Halloween

Here are some skulls done over the past couple months in the spirit of the halloween season. I've been interested in bringing a little Boston flavor to calaveras, hence the scally caps and street-art-styling.


This little guy is about 2" x 3", linocut on rice paper.


This devil squid is also a linocut, but is printed on 8" x 10" cardstock.


This scally cap wearing skull is a my self-portrait calavera. It's painted plywood silkscreened with the skull, about 5" across.

From the archives

While getting ready for JP Open Studios, I pulled out the back catalogue of prints to see if there was anything that might be appealing to the folks. I snatched out a few items and scanned them for posterity in case they sell. Here are some oldies:

These few are from grad school and were the beginning of a lot of the baseball stuff I did. These were water-based monoprints done on rag paper. The green image in the upper right of this first one is Big Papi. For added nostalgia value, these were done before we won it all in '04...



I believe the pitcher on the left here is Beckett...





I thonk the runner on top is Ichiro and the batter on the left is Bill Mueller.


This was done back in the UMass days, a monoprint of a hardground line etching...

Paul Pierce tribute

After reading the Sports Illustrated article about Pierce a couple weeks ago, I was finally motivated to start working out some prints in honor of some of my local sports heroes. This is a mockup of my tribute to Pierce who has stuck with the Celtics and the city of Boston much longer than others would have. The fact that he has established his mature leadership over one of the most storied franchises of the NBA has cemented his legacy in this town. He deserves a retired number at the new Garden and the respect of basketball fans everywhere.

Lone Star

No explanation necessary. When I can get proper transparencies together, this may become a silkscreen. Currently there are also plans for a neon sign with the outlined letters blinking on and off.

One of my Favorite Monoprints

This is a monoprint from 2005 with which I was particularly pleased. This is an oil-based monoprint created with mylar silhouettes and a plexi plate. This series was part of my exploration of two famed American exports: war and baseball. I see them as representing and embodying the full complexity of our country; from beauty, grace and honor, straight through to corruption, greed and violence.

In Hoc Signo Vinces

These are photos documenting some woodcut posters I installed at Justin Hoover's space, "The Garage", in SF in 2004. The phrase references the legend of Constantine's conversion in which he received revelation that he would conquer through the sign of the cross. After witnessing the first several years of Bush's presidency, I felt like he was the modern Constantine: a crusader and conqueror who exploited religion to advance and justify his imperial ambition. Beyond the religiously tinged talk about things like 'evil', this administration has also draped itself in the equally non-rational rhetoric of patriotism. We are to believe that these wars are just and necessary because it's our duty as god-fearing Americans to fight evildoers. Just like these donkeys and elephants, we should all get in line and face right, lest we be branded impious and un-American.