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This piece is part of my Fresh Finds project—where I’m going through older work from my archive and offering it to collectors for the first time in years. These works haven’t been seen publicly in decades, and I realized it was time to release them. They’re part of my journey as an artist, and I want to let collectors—new and longtime—have a chance to own a piece of that legacy.
This watercolor is titled Foreign Cinema, and I painted it in 1995. It was pulled from one of my old sketchbooks—back when the director of Hang Gallery in San Francisco asked me to cut some of them out so they could be sold as smaller works. That gallery director later dropped me and said some pretty ridiculous things about censorship when she was interviewed by the Oakland Tribune, so yeah, it’s kind of funny to revisit this now with a fresh perspective.
This piece was loosely inspired by The Seventh Seal, or at least I think it was. It's been a long time, but the mood and expression of those stark Ingmar Bergman frames really stayed with me. That kind of quiet tension between figures, the sculptural lighting, the way faces carry all the weight of the moment—that’s what I was chasing here.
It’s watercolor on paper, about 8 x 8 inches. The color palette is pretty restrained—warm ochres, grays, and muted browns—laid in washes with some sharper contrasts to model the forms. I was trying to work quickly and intuitively while still holding onto structure. The bald figure feels weighty and stoic, the younger one a bit more open and contemplative. Their expressions and poses suggest some kind of exchange or moment between them, even if it's not fully spelled out.
Stylistically, it mixes realism and gesture. The faces are modeled with geometric planes and light washes, while the clothing and background are more abstracted and soft-edged. I wasn’t using bristle brushes here, but I was still thinking in terms of shape and mass like I would in oils. There’s no real environment around them—just tonal space—which pushes your focus onto their faces and expressions.
The composition is tight and frontal, almost theatrical. You can definitely see the influence of cinema here, but also artists like Elmer Bischoff, Lucian Freud, and even a bit of Velasquez in the way I’ve tried to let the forms emerge from tone and silence.
Details:
Title: Foreign Cinema
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 8 x 8 inches
Year: 1995
Unframed
Removed from sketchbook for sale through Hang Gallery
Excellent condition, stored flat
FREE SHIPPING
Shipping takes 3–4 Weeks
This ships from Round Lake Beach, Illinois. A suburb outside of Chicago.
I use UPS and sometimes US Post.
This piece is part of my Fresh Finds project—where I’m going through older work from my archive and offering it to collectors for the first time in years. These works haven’t been seen publicly in decades, and I realized it was time to release them. They’re part of my journey as an artist, and I want to let collectors—new and longtime—have a chance to own a piece of that legacy.
This watercolor is titled Foreign Cinema, and I painted it in 1995. It was pulled from one of my old sketchbooks—back when the director of Hang Gallery in San Francisco asked me to cut some of them out so they could be sold as smaller works. That gallery director later dropped me and said some pretty ridiculous things about censorship when she was interviewed by the Oakland Tribune, so yeah, it’s kind of funny to revisit this now with a fresh perspective.
This piece was loosely inspired by The Seventh Seal, or at least I think it was. It's been a long time, but the mood and expression of those stark Ingmar Bergman frames really stayed with me. That kind of quiet tension between figures, the sculptural lighting, the way faces carry all the weight of the moment—that’s what I was chasing here.
It’s watercolor on paper, about 8 x 8 inches. The color palette is pretty restrained—warm ochres, grays, and muted browns—laid in washes with some sharper contrasts to model the forms. I was trying to work quickly and intuitively while still holding onto structure. The bald figure feels weighty and stoic, the younger one a bit more open and contemplative. Their expressions and poses suggest some kind of exchange or moment between them, even if it's not fully spelled out.
Stylistically, it mixes realism and gesture. The faces are modeled with geometric planes and light washes, while the clothing and background are more abstracted and soft-edged. I wasn’t using bristle brushes here, but I was still thinking in terms of shape and mass like I would in oils. There’s no real environment around them—just tonal space—which pushes your focus onto their faces and expressions.
The composition is tight and frontal, almost theatrical. You can definitely see the influence of cinema here, but also artists like Elmer Bischoff, Lucian Freud, and even a bit of Velasquez in the way I’ve tried to let the forms emerge from tone and silence.
Details:
Title: Foreign Cinema
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 8 x 8 inches
Year: 1995
Unframed
Removed from sketchbook for sale through Hang Gallery
Excellent condition, stored flat
