SUPERBLOOM

Altamira Fine Art • Scottsdale

January / February 2023

Superbloom steps a bit outside my ongoing series investigations of single locations and instead looks at moments of unique impact across many locations. These paintings are inspired by last year’s superbloom in Taos, by its fleeting happenstance that required me to set side my schedule and look deeply at what was only around for a short time: so many flowers. I painted a few pieces of the actual bloom, but then started wondering about the idea of paintings themselves being a kind of flowers - bright, colorful, celebratory; attractive things meant to travel into the world and inspire correspondence, information exchange, growth, and evolution in thought and awareness. Following along this sense of transience and blossoming, the show is made of pieces that relate in their sentiment rather than location - in a sense of the fleeting, awe, beauty and power, and it’s-only-here-only-now so put down whatever you’re doing and look.