Ruins
1990 - 1992
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In 1990 I began making paintings with close tonal values. I was exploring how much information could be conveyed by allowing the detail to slowly reveal itself as the viewer spent time with the work.
In 1989 and 1990 I noticed many abandoned industrial structures in my trips around the Philadelphia area. I saw them as a perfect metaphor, as ruins, for the lost industrial economy in this country as well as the loss of a quality standard of living for many Americans.
Most of the structures in these paintings are no longer standing.
