The series Inside Sensation (oil on canvas, panel, or paper) engages the paintings of Venetian painter Tintoretto (1518-1594.) I first encountered Tintoretto’s paintings in Venice in 2013, and returned in 2015 to work on site to make sketches and watercolors. I am drawn to his extreme perspectives, open gestural marks and unpredictable rhythms through the interplay of lights and darks. In tension with the immediacy of his vision, a deeper sense of time emerges with compositional mirroring, mysterious sylphlike figures running in and out of spaces.
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Inside Sensation VIII b, 12 in x 16 inInside Sensation XXXIII, 11 in x 14 inInside Sensation XXIV, 44 in x 46 inInside Sensation XI, 16 in x 18 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation XXI, 30 in x 32 inInside Sensation V, 29 in x 28 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation XXVII, 11 in x 14 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation 1, 19 in x 16 inInside Sensation VIII, 20 in x 16 inInside Sensation XX, 32 in x 30 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation XXVII, 50 in x 52 inInside Sensation X, 20 in x 16 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation VII, 28 in x 27 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation XXXIV, 14 in x 11 inInside Sensation XXXV, 11 in x14 (SOLD)Inside Sensation XXIX, 11 in x 14 inInside Sensation XXVI, 50 in x 52 inInside Sensation XXII, 40 in x 42 inInside Sensation XXIII, 44 in x 46 inInside Sensation XIII, 12 in x 16 inInside Sensation XXXII, 14 in x11 inInside Sensation XIV, 16 in x 12 inInside Sensation XXV, 42 in x 40 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation IX, 16 in x 16 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation XVIII, 12 in x 12 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation IV, 19 in x 15 in (SOLD)Inside Sensation VI, 26 in x 29 in (SOLD)