In January of 2009 I drove across the country from Baltimore to Portland Oregon. When I wasn’t behind the wheel, I was documenting the landscape in hundreds of photos. These images played in my head for almost four years. Specifically, the dramatic landscape of the Southwestern leg of our travels, and the interesting juxtaposition of man-made interruptions to these amazing big sky vistas.
Inspired by the color studies of Josef Albers, these paintings explore the color relationships and palette of those American Southwest landscapes.
The floating square was used as a repeating element throughout the series. It contrasts the natural versus the man-made while creating a visual tension between illusionistic space and the two-dimensional picture plane.
