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This is selection of paintings that may not have been placed in any of the other curated portfolio pages (yet)
Receivers, 2021
oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches
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Rooted Flight, 2021
Oil on Canvas
30 x 24 inches
76.2 x 60.96 cm
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Sculptor Sculpting Sculpture, (Sculptor in Flow), 2021
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
76.2 x 76.2 cm
An artist in flow
pure engagement
pleasure.
A Bout (Boxers Boxing), 2021
Oil on Linen
12 x 12 inches
30.48 x 30.48 cm
Red State Blue State
Father and Son
Time taking a toll
Generational divide
says as much about the viewers
as it does about the bout taking place in the ring?
“I decided to make a boxing painting. I loved boxing when I was younger! Now that I am older my knees go weak as I watch people get the daylights knocked out of them, and I seem to feel every blow.
With fondness I recall being a kid and getting to stay up later than usual to watch Muhammad Ali fights. Being the youngest of five kids, I may have been considered to be the runt of the litter. I was gangly, somewhat uncoordinated, and wore a brace on my right leg for a couple of years to correct a malformed ‘hip in socket’. I remember my uncle Richard taking my brother Stephen and I to a training gym, lacing us up with gloves and protective helmets on and pushing us together in what may have been an attempt to toughen me up. (Look at me now UNK!)
I laugh at it now, but about halfway into completing this painting there was the realisation that I was unconsciously painting my son and I, with my son knocking out his old man’s teeth; it’s probably a recognition of how we were butting heads at the time about our thoughts around a few social issues of the day. ” – M.A. – from notes on paintings
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Vivarium, 2021
Oil on Canvas
24 x 24 inches
White cube city living small spaces
lock down
prickly things
comfort
pleasure
awkwardness
exploration
a study
making the best of it
lovers by moonlight
suggestive of sea creatures
fish like pillow tail
suggestive in other ways
play
Vi·var·i·um
/vīˈverēəm/
noun
1.an enclosure, container, or structure adapted or prepared for keeping animals under seminatural conditions for observation or study or as pets; an aquarium or terrarium.
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