Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King (diptych), oil on linen, 60″ X 144″, 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. – An Antidote for HateThis week, I found myself asking myself: if art had an antidote for hate, what would it be? As always, I thought of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Georgia O’Keeffe / Alfred Stieglitz, oil on linen, 30″X24″ each, 2019/2018 United in Portraiture — A Love StoryThe diptych that reinforced my belief in the profound link between romance and portraiture.
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John Adams, oil on linen, 42X48″, 2018 A Letter to My Favorite Contemporary Composer, John AdamsPainting American composer John Adams was an intensely personal experience for me. Here’s the letter I sent Adams to express my love for his work.
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[In Progress] Clara and Robert Schumann, 2019 Fluo Colors – The Secret Behind the Vibrancy of My Upcoming PaintingsLately, I’ve been dabbling in fluo color washes. As a painter known for my very toned-down palette, it may seem like a radical shift. It’s not.
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Jacques Derrida, oil on linen, 24X20″, 2017 | Cat, oil on linen, 24X20″, 2017 The Animal That Therefore I Am: Jacques Derrida and His CatWe are who we think we are. But we are also who other people think we are.
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Marc Séguin, oil on linen, 16×32″, 2018 “Dear Painters”: My Love Letter to Quebec ArtistsThe story behind a 2018 series I painted in tribute to the Quebec artists who shaped me – Marc Séguin, Charles Daudelin (sculptor), Betty Goodwin, Marcel Barbeau, and more.
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7 Reece Mews (Cézanne, Francis Bacon, Giacometti and Rembrandt), oil on linen, 67”X91”, 2017 7 Reece Mews: A Mystical Meeting of Painters in Francis Bacon’s StudioIn this transcendent scene, I visit Francis Bacon’s studio to look in on an imagined meeting between a pantheon of familiar faces.
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The Turin Horse, oil on linen, 67″X60″, 2018 The Turin Horse – Did Empathy Drive Nietzsche to Madness?In this painting, I depicted The Turin Horse in a somber scene that questions the effects empathy had on the psyche of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Michel Tremblay, oil on linen, 46X46 inches, 2018, private collection. Michel Tremblay – A Look of Implacable TendernessVisually Michel Tremblay can only be presented frontally, without detour. There is no ambiguity in him, no enigmatic shadow, no artifice.
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New Edition of Michel Tremblay Anthology Features My PortraitI’m honored to announce that my portrait of Michel Tremblay, perhaps the greatest Québécois writer, is featured on the cover of a new edition of Chronicles of the Plateau Mont Royal.
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