Crop Circles over Amarillo (B)
Orange Day on Vegetable Beach (C)
Michael Quigli's grape is not allowed! 20x30 Fall 2000
To prevent overcrowding, Vegetable Beach restricts admission to a different color of vegetable each day. The orange gained admittance on a technicality. "Hey, today is Orange Day, and I'm an orange". But the tangerine did not want to risk the worm police, after seeing what happened to the foolhardy apricot. Also notice the remnants of a grape.
As originally conceived, this picture was vertical, not horizontal. There was an ocean to the left, and a city to the right, of the beach. Fruits were welcome guests, and cooling polka dots were rolling off the sea onto the land. But I realized that without my intending to, the sea had turned into a four-eyed worm eating Michael Quigli's grape! This led to notions of property rights, arbitrary property rights, trespassing and the consequences thereof, as expressed in the final version, which has a more somber tone than is usual in my paintings. (Mighael Quigli and his ridiculous grape are completely fictitious, although there are several real Michael Quigleys)
Popo
The unmarked police car is leaving as the robots arrive.
(C) 24x24
Froggie
Froggie speaks with a forked tongue. That's Y everYthing she saYs starts with a Y. The man is earnestly beseeching her advice. This is dog language, as opposed to egg language. I don't know what the words mean, but if he listens to her, he will be happy enough to do handstands. Otherwise, he is owl food.
(B) 24x24
yo-bag
YAM-BOG
yippodog
hie-ka-chole-lee?
YAMULO-DING!
My Favorite Spot on Earth – the Avenue I Train Station 28 x 22. 2010 Inspired by the painting "Twilight Confidences" by Cecelia Beaux, a truly great artist and one of my favorites. That work is an anomaly in her ouvre, just as this one is in mine.
There are nineteen magical spots on earth, three in North America. They come and go. Right now this is one of them.
Chinese Eye Candy (C)
Stylized, stereotypical Chinese images, harmoniously arranged. The primary point was to have a red stripe next to a pink stripe. 20x30
Tribute to Modigliani, the Horse is by Remington (C)
His eyes are three different shades of yellow. Her nose is a jalapeno pepper. 29x23
Stulia (B) 24x36
Both words are dream words, "stulia" meaning "man growing out of a tree". He is looking at Lynn Wyatt, one of the world's most beautiful and best dressed women, standing on a summer squash whose flowers contain dancing space aliens.
I Just Want to Go to Sleep (B) 16x20
Painted in one sitting on 4/26/2002
Stop or You Will Become a Yammig (C)
Yam’ mig adj 1. literal but rare: The conversion of a locomotive into a cucumber, as in "become a yammig". 2. idiomatic, colloquial usage: representative of a small dog that thinks it is a big dog. "Bunch of yammigs", "That was a yammig movie". Yom' mig adj 1. Pertaining to something that really is a big dog, as opposed to a yammig. Cf yosmodog, the superlative form. 18x24
Great Big Speckled Egg with Egg Language (C)
Eggs speak in couplets, like "gazimp /gazomp"
30x22
Polka Dots (A)
Some visual art has its own logic which cannot be described in words. 18x24
Classical Realists (B)
In honor of the American Society for Classical Realism and its distinguished patrons. 16x20
Crazy Doodles with Ram (A)
The oil derrick at lower right looks like a cow. 20x30
The Cupcake (C)
Inspired by the Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick maker. The latter has become a ghost upon seeing the puffin. The tall bird is a cormorant. Painted Spring of 2002. If you think the Butcher's pink underwear violates the Museum's no nudity policy, no, I was trying to achieve the layered look. 19x24
Three Pots and a Pan (B)
The range top has turned into a river flowing between the cookware. Note the trees on pan ridge. There is a tempest in the teapot. 19x24
