Playa Paintings

Experimental mixed-media paintings created during an artist residency at Playa in the high desert in rural southwest Oregon located on a seasonal lake with radical open skies.

Strata and Sediment Series, 2023

During a recent artist residency in the Great Basin in the Oregon Outback, unexpected creative impulses emerged from daily immersion in the open spaces, fluvial sediments, dust plumes and spiritual history of the site located on an ancient alkaline lake that recedes to fissured mud cakes in the summer. Mixed-media on BFK paper, various sizes.

Weather, 2017

A series of mixed media paintings that respond to the open skies, mountains and dramatic weather around Summer Lake during a monthlong residency there.

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