Complexity Series

 This was a foray into my natural creative impulses that had its beginnings in the mid-’90s. I was working in this style when I moved to Sweden in 2000, and finished two Complexity paintings in 2017 and 2018. I began this series by working with repeatable patterns and compositional systems, searching for increased complexity that could still maintain reasonable readability. On its own, I felt that furthering the complexity of these pattern-based works by merely adding more layers wasn’t enough to produce sufficiently compelling visual phenomenon. As I began overlapping patterns and layers began piling up, these patterns’ structures were given the ability to affect one another, allowing further systems or emergent properties to develop. Predetermined interconnectivity is given creative force by distortional and disruptive elements that are bound to systems’ structures. Chaos from order was my goal here, to create the organic from the mechanical, motion from math. They are meant to reflect the secretive processes that create everything we know – to suggest the beauty that results from the complex interactions of the patterns vibrating through the systems around and within us. Many of these works have been excessively time-consuming to produce, taking months to even years of steady handwork. 

 Five, ink on paper, ca. 55 x 40 cm, 1993 –unavailable– 

 85 Squares on More Squares, oil on canvas, 58 x 61 cm, 1999 –unavailable– 

Bats at Dusk, intaglio, 24 x 21 cm, 1998

Complexity Blue, oil on canvas, 122 x 98 cm, 2002

 Blurred Grid, lithography, ca. 25 x 20 cm, 1994 –unavailable– 

 Boxmaze with Single Outline, ink on paper, 12 x 13 cm, 1993 –unavailable– 

Brain, colored pencil on paper, 72 x 54 cm, 2000

Complexity Brown,  oil on canvas, 122 x 98 cm, 2002

Bus Trip through the City, oil on canvas, ca. 125 x 125 cm, 1993 –unavailable– ​​​​​​​

City, colored pencil on paper,  72 x 54 cm, 1999 –unavailable–

 Complexity Self-Portrait, acrylics and photography, 70 x 150 cm, 1993 –unavailable– 

Cornfield, colored pencil and ink on paper, 55 x 56 cm, 1998

Crosshairs, ink on paper, 12 x 13 cm, 1993

Double-triangulated Triangles, ink on paper, 12 x 13 cm, 1993

Floatdown, ink on paper, 78 x 58 cm, 2007

 Fog, oil on canvas, ca. 125 x 125 cm, 1994 –unavailable– 

​​​​​​​Heart, colored pencil on paper, 72 x 54 cm, 2001

Holes in Wet Snow, ink on paper, 72 x 54 cm, 2000

​​​​​​​Islamic Pattern Distortion “2, intaglio, 24 x 32 cm, 1999 –unavailable–

Maze and Grid, ink on paper, 28 x 21 cm, 1995

Mushrooms, colored pencil on paper, 72 x 54 cm, 2001 –unavailable–

overcast on a Winter Night, lithography, 61 x 46 cm, 1994 –unavailable–

Pillow, ink on paper, 72 x 54 cm, 2000 –unavailable– 

Port 2, ink on paper, ca. 20 x 20 cm, 1993  –unavailable–

Puffed Grids, colored pencil on paper, 54 x 54 cm, 1997  –unavailable– 

 Red Boxmaze, intaglio, 32 x 24 cm, 1999  –unavailable– 

Complexity Red, oil on canvas, 122 x 98 cm, 2001

Scribble, graphite on paper,  72 x 54 cm, 1999

 Simple Boxmaze, ink on paper, 12 x 13 cm, 1993  –unavailable– 

Smothered Wind, oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm, 2017

 Systemic Watercolor 1, watercolor & gouache, ca. 25 x 20 cm, 1993  –unavailable– 

 Systemic Watercolor 2, watercolor & gouache, ca. 25 x 20 cm, 1993  –unavailable– 

 Systemic Wave Pattern, ink on illustration board, 35 x 28 cm, 1998 –unavailable– 

Trees, oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm, 1995 –unavailable–

 Triangles with Lines along Long Sides, ink on paper, 12 x 13 cm, 1993 –unavailable– 

Two Grids, colored pencil on paper, 54 x 54 cm, 1997

 Water, intaglio, 15 x 15 cm, 1994  –unavailable–

Complexity Yellow, oil on canvas, 122 x 98 cm, 2001​​​​​​​

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