My intention in creating this new cycle of paintings, titled “Pilgrimage”, was to visually recapture something of the mystical in one of the most elevating and problematic keystones of our human existence: relationship. Like any relationship, the panels were voids that had to be filled with color, with black and white realities merged with the red of passion bonded by a unity that is possible only when the other is given space and boundaries that are respected. Thus, the single image on each panel. On the reverse of the single panel diptychs are unified images, representational or abstract, that do not so much complete the story but open it up into a deeper story that continues into the shadowlands of the infinite.
The exhibition for these works premiered on July 27, 2019 in an evening that also included musical entertainment from Pittsburgh-based folk duo, The Stapletons.
