The American
artist Brice Marden once observed that emphasizing the horizontal aspect
of a painting represented a landscape and the vertical emphasis, a figure.
I guess I bought into that argument and my work reflects this fundamental
proportion based concept.
Sensory phenomena
are an enigma for me. Ordinary events: shadow, light, movement, that I
experience and interpret as part of a constantly changing mental, visual
and physical environment, sometimes seem out of context with expected reality--just
plain wierd. I interpret commonplace events and forms as beautiful and
profound. The broad, flat farm fields of the midwest, I think, were among
the first ordinary vistas to impact my senses in this extraordinary way.
It is an interpretation that has served me well. I desire to share it with
others, perhaps if only to verify my own reality, my own sanity.
I use traditional
and new media working back and forth from one to the other to explore my
'reality' and other entities of my dreams and waking life.
Railroad
Square Cinema Sophia--Knowledge
and Wisdom, 2004 Origin of Life,
(After Gustave Courtbet), 2005
Maine Biennial 'No
Song For Butter' Acrylic (Rhoplex)
on canvas University
of Southern Maine Gorham, Maine
Maine Art Now Edgar Allen
Beem Collection
of Maine Times Essays ‘Henry Nigl,’
Review of Work and Exhibits including
a review of the painting 'No
Song For Butter'
All Michigan
Biennial Detroit Institute
of Arts Detroit, Michigan
‘Burned Out
by the Riot’ Installation
in burned-out drugstore Detroit Riots,
1967 Detroit, Michigan
Site
Specific
Union of Maine
Visual Artists Site Show 'Dewlaps
Night Into Day' Camden Hills
State Park Camden, ME
'Dewlaps Night
Into Day' Dancer and
Atlantic Ocean, Video Popham Beach
State Park Phippsburg,
ME
Architectural/Design
World
Trade Center Memorial Proposal Submittal to
Lower Manahattan Development Authority (LMDA)
Competition New York, New
York Wetlands Song Concept design
for a seashore museum and
cathedral Maine Festival,
Bowdoin College Brunswick,
Maine
Catalog
of Work (Downloadable
Adobe PDF files)
This is not
yet a catalogue raisonné though I am working troward that goal.
In that context, as of November 2003, I have compiled about 15-20% of my
work in these digital catalogs. Current work, from 2003 on, is being added
to this website as projects and pieces are completed, and on a daily basis
as time permits.
CATALOG1
- 1963 through 1973, Michigan Years CATALOG2
- 1973 through 1984, Brunswick, Maine CATALOG3
- 1984 to 1999, Florida/Waterville, Maine
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