Recent Work

Commissions, in contrast to gallery pieces, are artworks that are created for clients with timelines and size and subject matter constraints. Most of my larger commissions have been art for public spaces or percent for art projects.

I have 3 large paintings (4 ft by 6 ft) in the jury assembly room in the new Justice Jay Rabinowitz Alaska State Courthouse in Fairbanks. The Noel Wien Library in Fairbanks recently installed 5 anthropormorphic animal portraits in the young adult section. There are as series of 6 animal athlete cut-out paintings at Fairbanks' Randy Smith Middle School and a 30 foot long mural in the University of Alaska's Statewide Office Building(Butrovich) on the Fairbanks campus.

Most of the commission work is based on drawings, field work and research and then is created in the studio. The portraits are usually done from life (excepting the anthropomorphic paintings which are based on people I know or have met) in a relatively short time. This is especially true of the kid portraits, some of which appear in the field work section.

"Soiree"

oil/board

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