Tornado Series

This 160-tornado swarm was executed between October 2009 and the end of May 2010. It is a painterly consideration of the terror of beauty and catastrophe on the horizon.

In June 2010 it was exhibited in its entirety at Damon Dash’s The Dash Gallery, Tribeca.

The band Cubic Zirconia feature “sound_#53” on the cover of their Black and Blue release.

In October 2010 a six painting coda brought the superoutbreak to its conclusion.

Tornado Series: "longer_#48"

Off balance at twilight.

Tornado Series: "talking_#47"

We never were in Kansas.

Tornado Series: "bids_#45"

Soft focus moment of import.

Tornado Series: en plein air

“Serpent's_#43” represents an inflection point in the continuing Tornado Series. Up to now I’ve been intentionally working without visual referent – operating exclusively from memory or preconception.

It seemed a worthy exercise – an irreproducible luxury – to scan the mental database and see what my personal encoded tornado icon looks like – at least to date.

With this painting, though, I’ve taken to painting from external observation: The web is replete with powerful, experiential video of tornadoes. I think of working in accompaniment to these videos as mediated en plein air painting.

Tornado Series: "unclean_#42"

Tornado Series: "likeness_#41"

Tornado Series: "streets_#39"

Tornado Series: "bidding_#34"

Tornado Series: "cups_#22"

Tornado Series: "photon cyclone #21"

Tornado Series: "indeed_#18"

Tornado Series: "common_#13"

Tornado Series: "lowly_#7"

Without warning. Without regret.

Tornado Series: "upbraid_#3"

Tornado Series: "times_#2"