Copper, 2010
Artist's Private Collection
Indigo, 2010
SOLD
Black, 2009
SOLD
Blue, 2009
SOLD
Orange, 2010
SOLD
Pink, 2010
$275
A portion of the sale of this painting will go to
the Jennifer Lyons Breast Cancer Fund,
part of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.
Yellow, 2009
$275
Red, 2009
SOLD
Kiwi, 2010
SOLD
Turquoise, 2010
$275
Artist’s Statement
In 1998, I began painting and selling 3x5-inch and 4x6-inch paintings in my “One Word Art” series. Each painting was given an action verb as a title. Although I think there is self-discovery in stillness, it’s through action that we connect with others and our planet. A percentage of every One Word Art painting sold is donated to HIV/AIDS assistance organizations.
I wasn't comfortable painting on larger canvases until another artist suggested that I mentally break down the space into the smaller sections I was accustomed to painting. Although I’m not sure she meant for me to do it literally, I found that I enjoyed linking seemingly disparate paintings on one surface.
On each of the 18x24-inch canvases in the “True Colors” series, one 4x6-inch section is a solid color that gives the painting its name. Though the other seventeen sections are different, they're connected by repeated colors and patterns. In this way, the paintings remind me of human diversity: We're different, but we're all connected.
I chose the name “True Colors” because I believe those of us living during the decades beginning in the 1980s will be judged by posterity not for our technology, our wealth, our art, or our governments. We will be judged by how we responded to first sufferers and fatalities in the AIDS epidemic: those people marginalized by poverty, color, and sexual orientation. It’s through either the manifestation or absence of our compassion that we show our true colors.
We are different, but we are all connected.
Bering Omega Community Services
Gold, 2010
SOLD
Green, 2009
$275
Brown, 2010
SOLD
Lavender, 2010
SOLD
Gray, 2010
SOLD
Bluegrass, 2010
$275
White, 2010
SOLD
Purple, 2009
SOLD