Portfolio > Nothing New Under the Sun, Ink Drawings, 2022-present

“Nothing New Under the Sun” consists of pen and ink drawings, begun in January of 2022. Small, mostly square works on 9.75" x 9.75" with a prominent white border on all edges, a printmaking trope, the series is based on the work of visionary printmakers like Goya and William Blake (with occasional explicit visual references to these artists). The sharp edge of the drawing is created by tape, and then completed with markers and artists ink pens. The drawings refer variously to Philip Guston imagery, emojis, still life tropes, 80's video games (Pacman ghosts appear in one) and anime illustrations.

Figures (from the lab administrator’s notebooks
Pen and colored ink on paper
11” x 14”
2023
Woe (wallpaper/vintage)
Pen and colored pencil on paper
9” x 12”
2023
Artist (self portrait with nasturtiums)
Pen and colored pencil on paper
9” x 12”
2023
William Morris (xeroxed) fragment
Pen on paper
9” x 12”
2023
Fragment, William Morris (Voltron)
Pen on paper and colored pencil
9” x 12”
2023
i. (Sorrows of (not so) young Werther)
Ink pen and marker on paper
11" x 14"
2022
Mental Landscape
Ink pen and marker on paper
11" x 14"
2022
Labyrinth/Vice
Ink pen and marker on paper
11" x 14"
2022
Untitled
Ink pen and marker on paper
9"x 12"
2022
Untitled
Ink pen and marker on paper
9"x 12"
2022
Drawing
Ink pen and marker on paper
9"x 12"
2022
Untitled
Ink pen and marker on paper
9"x 12"
2022
Untitled
Ink pen and marker on paper
9"x 12"
2022
Untitled (book of the dead)
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Woe (Ghost)
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Glaede (Joy) in S$&t Storm/ Kierkegaard/Lilies of the field
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Design
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Woe, after William Blake, the (first) book of Urizen
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
America, a prophesy (after William Blake c1793)
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Oracle
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Cosmic Garden
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Quilt
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
The Poet and the Viking King
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Wall
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
The Light of Reason
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Zine Cover
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
More Black Clouds
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Landscape (nothing new under the sun...)
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Rosy Fingered Dawn
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
The Thinker
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Monuments and Forms
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Black Clouds
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022
Forms
Ink pen and marker on paper
9.75"x9.75"
2022