The American artist
Brice Marden once observed that emphasizing the horizontal aspect of a
painting represented a landscape and the vertical emphasis, a figure. I
guess I bought into that argument and my work reflects this fundamental
proportion based concept.
Sensory phenomena
are an enigma for me. Ordinary events: shadow, light, movement, that I
experience and interpret as part of a constantly changing mental, visual
and physical environment, sometimes seem out of context with expected reality--just
plain wierd. I interpret commonplace events and forms as beautiful and
profound. The broad, flat farm fields of the midwest, I think, were among
the first ordinary vistas to impact my senses in this extraordinary way.
It is an interpretation that has served me well--I desire to share it with
others in art--perhaps if only to verify my own reality, my own sanity.
I use traditional
and new media working back and forth from one to the other to explore my
'reality' and other entities of my dreams and waking life.
Railroad
Square Cinema Sophia--Knowledge
and Wisdom, 2004
Origin of Life,
(After Gustave Courtbet), 2005
Maine Biennial 'No
Song For Butter' Acrylic (Rhoplex)
on canvas
University of
Southern Maine
Gorham, Maine
Maine Art Now Edgar Allen Beem
Collection of
Maine Times Essays
‘Henry Nigl,’
Review of Work and
Exhibits including
a review of the
painting 'No Song
For Butter'
All Michigan
Biennial Detroit Institute
of Arts
Detroit, Michigan
‘Burned Out
by the Riot’ Installation in
burned-out drugstore
Detroit Riots,
1967
Detroit, Michigan
Site
Specific
Union of Maine
Visual Artists Site Show 'Dewlaps
Night Into Day' Camden Hills State
Park
Camden, ME
'Dewlaps Night
Into Day'
Dancer and Atlantic
Ocean, Video
Popham Beach State
Park
Phippsburg, ME
Architectural/Design
World
Trade Center Memorial Proposal Submittal to Lower
Manahattan Development
Authority (LMDA)
Competition
New York, New
York
Wetlands Song Concept design
for a seashore
museum and cathedral
Maine Festival,
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine
Catalog
of Work (Downloadable
Adobe PDF files)
This is not yet
a catalogue raisonné though I am working troward that goal. In that
context, as of November 2003, I have compiled about 15-20% of my work in
these digital catalogs. Current work, from 2003 on, is being added to this
website as projects and pieces are completed, and on a daily basis as time
permits.
CATALOG1
- 1963 through 1973, Michigan Years
CATALOG2
- 1973 through 1984, Brunswick, Maine
CATALOG3
- 1984 to 1999, Florida/Waterville, Maine
