SOCCER SHORTS

I’ve recently completed my very first series of oil paintings entitled SOCCER SHORTS. Comprising of 10 paintings, 10 x 10 inches, each features a pair of vintage satin Adidas soccer shorts from the 1980’s in a solid color. Together they create a rainbow of colors; a nod to the gay fetishization of this gear. On a personal level, I share this homo erotic interest, and being that Soccer was the first sport I ever played as a child, I felt it apropos as a ‘beginner’ in both oil painting and realism, to start with a simple series of Soccer shorts, a rather ideal study in color, shadow and rendering to start off this game!

The Striker (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

The Night Owl (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

The Harvester (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

Happy (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

The Purple One (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

Green Light (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

Saturday Morning (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

Sunday Afternoon (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

Saturday Night (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

Friday Night (2022), oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches.

Fashion Fast Forward; a mural for J. Crew in NYC.

Recently over one hot weekend in July I completed a freehand ‘automatic’ mural for J.Crew in collaboration with VM Architecture and Design celebrating human creativity, diversity and collaboration at their sparkling new corporate headquarters in downtown Manhattan. To achieve this I create a line drawing tapestry of interwovens drawings of working and helping hands, tools of the fashion trade like pencils, needles and thread, scissors and measuring tape, fashionable items like heels, sunglasses an imaginative array of flora and fauna like peacocks, sunflowers and hummingbirds. The result is a modern fluid lace that sparks the imagination and delights the eye.

I used a GoPro to capture the mural’s creation in a quick timelapse

Glass mural for WERQ, a group exhibition in NYC

Recently, I was commissioned to create a custom 22 x 9 ft rainbow hued acrylic mural on glass for WERQ, a group exhibition by NOGO Arts and Cluster gallery at The Playground in Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Todd Coulter, the exhibition focuses on artwork that addresses how queer people are responding to, assimilating into and liberating society in the context of work. My freehand line drawing mural is a meditation on how queer people are redefining the traditional roles in the workplace, weaving together a creative tapestry of queer working identities like transgender cowboys, lesbian soldiers and wedding cake makers, social media influencers, gay construction workers, plus size models and queer healers and activists.

More information: WERQ exhibition page

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