About

I like to make things, and I have been a serious fan of art and design for as long as I can remember. Sometime in the late '80s, I decided to pick up a brush.

After a couple of decades focusing on other creative pursuits (including a series of rock bands and a brief obsession with homebrewing), I decided to return to painting. Entirely self-taught (with all of the related trial and error), in 2023 I decided to commit to a course of study in studio arts at Dallas College.

Figurative artists who have influenced my style include Philip Pearlstein, Andy Warhol and Patrick Nagel. My favorite abstract artists tend to be from the mid-century Abstract Expressionism and Color Field movements, including Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, J ackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Josef Albers.

One series of paintings is entitled "Bands That Didn't Make It," celebrating albums and concert posters from some bands that few remember (thankfully). This morphed into a series of promo posters for films you almost certainly never have seen. Of course, these projects necessarily involved writing and recording a bunch of original music . . . .

I'm also a big fan of Rene Magritte and Salvador Dalí, and I have experimented with including elements of surrealism (and magic realism) in recent works.

Please contact me with any inquiries, and thanks for checking out the site!

-- Bart