My Medium

My Process…

At one point in my practice, I explored historical events of social injustice. I abandoned it because of the emotional toll of the subject matter. I shifted my concentration to abstract expressionism thinking it would be a short while.

Then after several decades, during the pandemic in late 2019, I began a series of paintings based on a family story of an enslaved ancestor whose daughters were sold away from her. 

Inspired by Phillip Guston, I returned to the objective narrative as a socially conscious expressionist. At one point, while doing a painting of my father called Le Prefere, I combined several techniques employed during my abstract expressionist period. 

These same gestures and the mark-making enhanced the emotional and psychological reality I sought to capture in that piece. It also offers me a deeper understanding of the compositions and narratives I pursue. Throughout it all, my preferred medium was and remains acrylic on stretched canvas.