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Works On Paper— Fundamental Abstracts To Human Likenesses. . . I imagine most artists during their career create works on paper even if their efforts only take the form of sketches or notes about what they are doing. In the late 60s, after making many pieces of sculpture and other 3-dimensional contrivances, I felt compelled, for reasons still unknown, to study visually the permutations of various forms of horizontal and vertical lines. Themes for the earliest works on paper, simple grids, turned out to be an harbinger of things to come and has continued to persist even along side my attraction thirty or so years later to figurative imagery.

		1. The Portrait Series Focusing on the face. Features that determine identity		2. The Faces Series Photos of photos. Images appropriated altered and exaggerated
		3. Companion Works Experimental designs and images relating to work in other series		4. Figure Drawing Lines that define human forms. Portraits, sketches, caricatures
		5. The Line Grids Regular and irregular abstract and recognizable images		6. Calligraphic Series Drawing squiggly lines. Writing sideways and up and down.
		7. Prints for Kids Small pigment inkjet prints based on drawings made by children		8. The Nouveau Plaids Computer generated images, vivid and clear, as prints and for projection
		9. Paintings on Paper Line Painting-like images but smaller. Acrylic on paper		10. Photographs Photo-based images of rural houses, sheds, barns and out-buildings