These are hasty photos, but you get the idea. The first two are 12 x 12 inches and the third is 16 x 16 inches.

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Just a few more days of working and then I have to pack up everything in preparation for the move to the new studio. I’m trying to finish a triptych painting before this happens. More about that shortly.

I am grateful to my Chicago community of friends and peers for helping me to locate a new studio space. I’ve got two weeks and change left in my studio here in Greektown before I move to the new space. It’s a few miles northwest and about 2.5 times as large. Perhaps its most alluring feature is one long, uninterrupted wall, which is big enough to allow me to work on several large paintings at once (or dozens of small ones). I can’t wait to be settled in the new environment.

In the meantime, I am drawing and drawing and drawing. Sometimes the first decision is mesmerizing — for me this 24″ drawing does it all in a couple lines:

I am well behind in posts — there are a couple on the back burner — but just a quick note to announce the opening of a group show here in Chicago at Heaven Gallery. I’ve got three recent paintings in the exhibition and I’m sharing space with a slew of fascinating artists. The opening reception is tonight: more info in the News section.

I am done with graduate school, and that means more frequent communication about the goings on of my practice are coming soon.