Wynn Newhouse Awards

Statement

Monocular vision is an inconvenience. You bump into things, people think you are ignoring them when you can't see them at all. By "centering" my head to see best, I incurred serious spinal and neck injuries requiring surgery.

I am a Photo-realist doing large paintings based on photographs which create the illusion of space. As think, as I build an image, of carving space. Assistants who work on my paintings paint on the picture plane. I paint above and below the surface. I create depth by moving on and off the painted surface.

Can it be that my fascination with 3D goes back to my desire to reclaim full sight?
I understand space by whether/not things are in focus. I really care about space around an object, not the object itself. I am a sculptor, working in paint, I work in dim light projecting my photographs onto canvas. As I paint, the lights come up until paintings are completed when space is carved and made palpable.