Drawing in Progress, May 2011, New York

"The Book of the Disappearing Galina"

ink on paper
2011, New York

Dark Landscape part one (in progress)

New York
ink, acrylic on paper
90 cm in diameter
2011

White on White, New York

New drawing in process

Corner in my New York Studio

Football Noir

watercolor, ink on paper
2011, New York

"Future Seeking Memories"

Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.
November, 2010

Two sketches for the drawings in progress

The Little Drawing (The Boy)

ink, color ink on paper, October 2010, New York

Kraftwerk Klingenberg

ink, color inks on paper

The Drawing with The Hunter (final stage)

ink, color inks, acrylics on paper
New York, 2010

The Landscape with Figures

ink, color inks on two sheets of paper
New York, 2010

Three Stages of the Drawing

Mounting the show "Paradise", Proteus Gowanus, New York

Counting the Days (Impossibility of Paradise)

The place illustrated is a real place, the Tbilisi Botanical Gardens, drawn from a photograph taken 100 years ago. I am fascinated by the remoteness of this image in time, which asks me to decide: what is my relationship to the garden and to the image? The image was caught long before I was born, and the garden has existed for centuries before that. But I am there several times a year, watching the changes in the garden and its surroundings. This place also holds the quality of Paradise: it inspires the feverish emotions that accompany the scoring of the passage of time – time to arrive, time spent, time left.

Living here and thinking about “there” is sometimes an exhausting imposition of geography, and it was in a moment that I painted the black shadow, which gave me some relief – but then my eyes began to construct the image again, and I found myself involved in rebuilding the myth of a paradise impossible to achieve.

The Book of Gardens

The cover for "The Book of Gardens"

drawing with Indian ink on paper mounted on the board, New York, August 2010

The History Lesson (drawing in progress)

The Little Book of Skulls