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Trees Landscape
The painting depicts trees, fence and water. The colors are vibrant and the texture of the rough paper is visible.
Untitled
The vertical painting consists of a large vertical shape in the center with a red head or top and a dark bottom or body. Surrounding the figurative type image is a orange and red oval which floats in the center. At the top and bottom edges are orange bands which lay behind the cartouche.
Untitled
The landscape painting includes a cluster of houses in the distance. In the foreground is a fencing and rolling hills with a windmill. Framing each side of the painting are tall tree trunks or electrical poles.
Untitled
The bronze sculptural pieces consist of architectural type elements combined into a vertical almost bell-like shape.
Untitled
The painting depicts several birds in profile. The style is abstracted with the fowls outlined and brightly colored.
Untitled
The horizontal painting depicts a landscape in which the sky is gray and the moon or sun is a solid red-orange color. In the foreground is some brown and yellow grasses which create a hill or small mountain shape.
Untitled
An angular and abstracted tree shape dominates the center of the painting. The brushstrokes are dark and angular. The foreground landscape is created from several stripes of color and pattern. A tree with yellow leaves is in the background and the composition in surrounded by a brown arch shape at the top of the painting.
Untitled
The vertically oriented sculpture appears to depict a fish or a bird. The upper portion of the piece is smooth while the base is rough.
Untitled
The sculpture consists of several vertical pieces twisting with each other secured in a square wood base.
Untitled Hanging
The artwork consists of several woven panels in various colors and textures. The panels are evenly spaced in a circular fashion and end in fringe draping to the floor. The work was created on a 16 heddle loom.
[vertical striped shibori artwork]
Tie-dyed cotton tapes hang in front of dyed fabric. The colors are warm and cool and gradate simultaneously from side to side and top to bottom. The piece is striped vertically with some angled from high left to low right in a paler version of the underneath hue.
Walking on Eggshells
The collage artwork depicts a foreground in pink and a background in red. Rectangular, square and triangular containers sit at various angles in the foreground. The interiors of the container shapes are in colors differing from the exteriors. A vertical cordial glass sits atop a yellow pedestal. This cordial glass shape can be seen in this artist's three-dimensional works as well.
[waves and bird-like ribbons, detail view]
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Weekend Romance
This artwork depicts two spheres with openings through which they are both pierced with two or three pointed orange and yellow spears. Beneath the spheres is a plateau with two cracks in it and in the background float some triangular shapes.
Weighted Rectangle
The pendant consists of a hollow sterling silver rectangular shape that inside of which is a sphere that appears to cause the rectangular shape to hang at an angle.
Whereabouts of Clouds
The horizontally oriented artwork depicts a series of ribbon like forms moving from the foreground and lower edge of the work into the distance and the top edge of the work. The sky is a light pink color and the ribbon forms gradate from dark to light blue-greens.
Wind
Two striated architectural type shapes, one beige-orange, one gray-green, consisting of two sides opening toward the right have moving between them three-striped ribbons. The work is horizontally oriented.
Wine Goblets
The wine goblets consist of two main pieces, a vertical horn shape made of wood which supports a similarly shaped silver piece that acts as the vessel. The tips of the silver vessels pierce the ebony stand. At the base of the stands are two thin pieces of silver banding.
With Globe
This acrylic painting consists of a highly patterned background across which is scattered small geometric shapes and silhouettes.
[yardage, discharged bleach on acetate material and screen printed]
The yardage consists of a dark ground fabric with randomly placed pinwheel shapes in a variety of patterns.
Orson
The painting, mostly monochromatic, depicts a portrait of Orson Welles in the top two-thirds of the canvas. Along the bottom edge, also in monochromatic tones, are men depicted in combat with automatic weapons. At the right edge, the face of a superhero is depicted in pink, blue, red and yellow. Running vertically in the left hand portion of the canvas is a depiction of lined notebook paper with a small pencil sketch of a landing craft or space ship.
Tares and Wheat
The vertically oriented painting depicts pieces of several contemporary images, a small portion of Life magazine logo, woman's face, cigarette package, tire, rocket, photograph, woman in a swimsuit and a car. The way in which the images are painted they appear to be torn from a magazine and are arranged in a collage fashion.
Highland Street
The painting depicts a monument set among trees.
Painted Magazine Triptych
The triptych depicts events and people from the early to mid 1970s such as a battlefield in the Vietnam War, Black Panthers and Patty Hearst being escorted to trial by a federal marshall.
Painted Magazine Triptych
This is the center panel from a triptych.
Painted Sports Magazine
This painting depicts a 1976 Sports Illustrated magazine cover featuring Steve Spurrier, a San Francisco 49ers football player. The painting depicts the cover as though the corner has been torn away and some extraneous expressionistic paint marks overlay the realistic portrayal of the football player.
Sound Wave Series No. 37
Square piece of paper divided into five vertical columns with horizontal lines and dots and dashes in light beige on toned paper.
[concentric circle sphere with floating papers]
This almost square artwork begins with a light brown background and in the center a large pale blue sphere of concentric light blue circles and on the interior of the open sphere are light brown concentric circles and out of the ball shape seem to fly several sheets of paper.
[tie-dyeing in a tall vertical artwork]
This long vertical work consists of a tie dyed or shibori method of screen printing. The imagery in the top portion of the work is a large red circle floating on an orange colored ground. The bottom portion of the work is a purple with many dark streaks running horizontally and a large light purple wave shape moves from the bottom edge of the work towards the top.
Blue Tide
This queen sized bedspread, screen printed on cotton velvet, was created while Spear studied at Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The bedspread gradates from purples to blues with long wave shapes in a pale yellow gold color.
Texas Series
Acrylic paint on paper depicting two large squares, one turned forty-five degrees and both filled with small lines, dots, and dashes creating many more small grids. Light blues and purples dominate.
Blessing of the Sea
The vertical strip of printed cloth depicts at forty-five degree angle wave like forms resembling water. At the left edge are orange square checkerboard shapes.
[room divider]
The vertical hanging room divider consists of strips of color that start and stop creating geometric shapes. The colors are both warm and cool, pinks and blues.
[room divider]
The vertical oriented room divider depicts a landscape type of scene with moon and sun type shapes floating through and among wave like shapes. The colors are in a range from warm orange and pale yellow to blue greens.
Untitled
The vertically oriented sculpture is in the form of a ladder type shape. Each "rung" has the shape of rolling pins that are decorated with geometric shapes in various colors.
[yardage, discharged bleach on acetate material and screen printed]
The dark cloth is decorated with a variety of pinwheel shapes in a bleached out manner with over screen printing in a turquoise color.
[4-panel piece, handmade paper on silk]
The artwork consists of four panels each turned on point. A grid ladder pattern turned in various directions appears in each panel. The colors are warm reddish browns and light blues. Other rectangular and triangular outlined shapes appear scattered across the panels.
Clouds That Sail Across the Sea
The artwork depicts some cloud like or wave like shapes in the foreground floating into the distance. The ground is depicted in a series of gradated stripes of dark purples and blues, also receding into the distance.
Elvis / Blue Boy Still Life
This large, mostly black and white painting, depicts a scene of a bar fight from one of Elvis Presley's movies and a reproduction of the famous painting, Blue Boy, by Thomas Gainsborough is superimposed. In front of the painting is a wooden table holding an apple, a pear and a pitcher, not unlike a Paul Cezanne still life.
Rosebud
The sculptural wall piece consists of two copper pipe shapes in opposite facing open right angles. Bridging the space between the two right angles are four vertical flat shapes decorated with various geometric shapes and colors. Running vertically through each center panel is a black and angular S shape. Filling in the negative space of the right angles are three right angle pieces of clay woven and decorated with various colors, shapes and lines.
Smelter Shelter
The artwork consists of five upright copper color poles around which twist decorated rolling pin shapes affixed to the uprights with pipes the same color as the uprights. The rolling pin shapes are covered with patterns and shapes of bright yellow, orange and black.
Storm, NYC Rooftop
Long multi-colored pieces are arranged on a rooftop in an urban setting. The pieces are arranged both in organic lines as well as straight lines filling the rooftop area. Some pieces partially move above the base and some appear suspended in space.
Sunset View from My Window
The horizontally oriented work of art consists of three vertical panels. Each panel depicts space through a series of gradated horizontally running lines and stripes. Moving from the foreground to the background are white ribbon shapes.
Canyon No. 2
The work depicts space in a canyon like fashion. Irregular shapes run through the work and from the edges are dropped perpendicularly gradated lines that create form and space. The illusion of space is also created by the gradations from white to pink to purple.
Geometric Landscape
The work depicts striped rectangles, circles and arched shapes. Adjacent, behind and running through the depicted space are light colored shapes that resemble a spilled liquid.
Our House
This flat piece consists of copper shapes that resemble a house outline. Two of these shapes meet and within the outlines are other various colored shapes that resemble an architectural floor plan.
Punk Walker
The bent tubular shape hanging from a copper support is highly textured with several colors and many closely space black hash marks.
Santa Fe
In this black and white painting are depicted three men. The two main figures wear cowboy hats and the figure on the right side of the painting also sports a sheriff's badge in the shape of a star. The brushstrokes are loose and expressive. The men appear to be having a dialogue.
Silk Panel I
The vertically running piece consists of a predominately dark ground with some vertical stripes in lighter colors and shades. Moving inward from the lower two corners are some mountainous shapes that overlap on the lower edge and meet again in the upper portion of the piece in front of the vertical striping.
[silk yardage, batiked]
The length of the silk yardage contains geometric shapes set at an angle and amongst the geometric shapes are smaller wave type shapes. The colors are dark blue to light blues and some warm yellow-browns.
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