Religion

This folder consists of a group of religious images I have chosen to express and show to the art world my religious beliefs, views both as a Christian and a Roman Catholic.

Some are from life, some after photographs, Either way, though, I hope to convince to the viewer that just as Cezanne once said "Art is a Religion" so too do I believe that "Religion is an art" if expressed well by the visual artist for his viewer to see. I hope to have shown this.

Church in Nantucket(after my photograph) 2005 watercolor

28.00 x 22.00 inches $300

Crucifixion(after a Crucifix image)

2002 chalk pastel on dark gray paper 29.50 x 23.50 inches $300

Holy Saturday(partly after my Cape Cod sunset photograph, partly after my imagination) 2011 oil 36.00 x 34.00 inches $350

This painting was inspired first by seeing a Georgia O'Keeffe painting of a similar modern flat cross. What I did, though, was add some other inspirations: a super sunset that I onced photographed originally behind houses in Sandwich, Cape Cod. Then with my imagination I added the 2 crosses of the good and bad thief behind Jesus's main Cross, all on a hill. The skull at the bottom of the central cross is meant to symbolize mortality or a momemto mori(reminder of death for all humans). I created an imaginative, modern "Holy Saturday" scene, image so my viewer could experience another religious experience, a unique modern one, in Christianity that I thought would be good and visually inspiring to share with my viewer.

Madonna and Native American Child 2002 erased and drawn charcoal on paper 21.50 x 17.00 inches $325

This charcoal drawing I made combining a profile pencil portrait of one of my sisters and a frontal portrait of a Native American Child that I once was commissioned to draw from life by a Native American mother that I used to work with at a restaurant in Sandwich, Cape Cod.

Our Lady Queen of Good Voyage(Gloucester, MA)(after my photograph) 2005 oil on wood 20.75 x 16.75 inches $300

One note here: Edward Hooper, who I mentioned before is another artist who inspires my art vision sometimes, also once painted a painting of this same church.

Resurrection(after_Michaelangelo_and_Ryd

Ressurrection(after Michaelangelo and Ryder) 2002 chalk pastel on gray paper 21.00 x 18.50 inches $300

This chalk pastel drawing was a combination of a copy I made of a Michaelangelo Ressurrection nude drawing that I clothed in white via an Albert Pinkham Ryder painting I had the honor of once guarding at The Phillips Collection and copying too.

The National Cathedral

2005 oil

68.00 x 34.00 inches $900

This tall painting I once painted from life in front of The National Cathedral while I was nearly a completely unemployed Studio Art Major from American University in the early 1990's. It makes me think that when painting this large Cathedral I was experiencing a religious popular song's idea by Eric Clapton: "I'm running on faith...what else can a poor boy do..."

Also, having seen and enjoyed Monet's paintings of Cathedrals in France before

I definitely was inspired by his impressionist art as well when painting my Cathedral painting but not exactly in style.