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AA 99-6
Painting consists of white, black, and tan brushstrokes, smeared and scraped. Two gradation motifs float vertically in the center of the canvas.
AC 99-8
The majority of the abstract painting consists of black and white brushstrokes, smeared and scraped. Across the uppermost center edge of the canvas is a color strip of nine different colors.
AE 99-10
Large white, black, and tan brushstrokes run vertically while a small red and blue/brown horizontal brushstrokes highlight the center of the canvas.
AG 99-12
Predominately black brushstrokes with some white and beige streaks vertically placed on the canvas with a color strip of red, beige, and white runs horizontally along the uppermost edge of the canvas.
AH 99-13
Vertical black brushstrokes are predominate with some streaks of white. Flanking the right and left edges of the canvas are gradations of blue and red strips of color painted in short horizontal strokes.
AI 99-14
Painting consists of mostly black vertical brushstrokes with some white streaks. Bits of red and orange are blended in some small spots. There are three narrow, vertical, color strips, strokes painted horizontally, scattered around the center of the canvas.
AJ 00-1
This oil painting on canvas is predominately black and includes some white vertical scrapes starting and stopping horizontally in the center.
AQ 01-5
This painting is mostly black with some vertical white scrapes.
[an artwork from the from Bridges Into Space series]
The strongly geometrically designed artwork consists of vertical strips that create circles and angled stripes. The bold colors range from dark browns and deep yellows to both light and dark purples and blues.
[artwork made of handmade paper and screen printed cotton velveteen]
The horizontally arranged artwork depicts a silhouette of a city skyline. In the foreground appears soft pink texture in arch design and a grid ladder pattern appears at the left edge.
[artwork made of handmade paper and screen printed cotton velveteen]
The horizontally arranged artwork consists of textured paper in a blue-green that gradates to a pink color and moves from the foreground to the background in a curving motion. Angular brown lines are in the background and the middle ground consists of pink colors. Some white cloud like forms float through the picture plane and a gray stacked shape fills the left side of the picture.
[artwork made of handmade paper and screen printed cotton velveteen]
The horizontally arranged artwork consists of silhouettes of mountains in the distance in various pale shades of gray. In the foreground are two curved shapes consisting of parallel lines of textured pink paper. Three lines geometric in shape move through the picture plane flattening while also creating more space.
[artwork made of handmade paper and screen printed silk]
The artwork depicts a horizontally situated composition and is reinforced on the left and top sides by a wide gray gradated border. Emerging from the bottom edge is a wide, green curve that recedes into the distance. At the right is an open grid shape and behind that a large pink textured circle. Two small cloud like shapes float in the background.
[artwork made of handmade paper on silk]
The horizontally arranged work consists of perspective lines receding into the distance. Halfway into the distance the receding lines are covered in blue soft textured handmade paper fibers. The floor of the space is checkerboard pattern and also recedes into distance. A brown ribbon type images also slither into the distance.
[artwork of handmade paper on silk satin]
The long horizontal artwork depicts geometric shaped borders floating through the structured space. Loose ribbon shapes float among and between the geometric shapes. The colors are muted in blue, brown, green and pink tones.
[artwork of screen printed silk and handmade paper]
The horizontally arranged artwork depicts various grids floating and moving in space to create depth. In the background is a large semi-circular shape in a textured blue green color. There is also a wide strip of brown that begins in the far lower right corner and moves at four different angles until it reaches the left side of the picture.
AT 01-8
This painting is predominately black with some vertical white and pink scrapes.
AU 01-9
This painting is predominately white with pink and black vertical scrapes.
AV 01-10
This oil painting is predominately pink with vertical scrapes of black and white.
AW 01-11
This oil painting is predominately green with vertical marks and lines of black and white broken by some horizontal implied lines.
AX 01-12
This abstract painting is predominately white with black, gray and green vertical marks interrupted by some horizontal implied lines.
B 97-2
Vertical painting with large gray brushstrokes. Several gradation motifs float on the surface.
BA 01-15
This abstract painting consists of pink and gray vertical strokes with some green and black smaller vertical strokes.
BE 02-4
Predominately orange painting includes many parallel vertical wavy black lines with horizontal texture.
BH 02-7
The bright orange painting also contains many vertical parallel wavy black lines with horizontal lined texture.
BI 02-8
This predominately yellow painting includes vertical curved and wavy orange lines with horizontal lined texture.
The Big Heat
The black and white painting depicts a version of a famous scene in the movie The Big Heat from 1953 directed by Fritz Lang and starring Glenn Ford. The brushstrokes are loose. One man holds a gun on a second wounded man. The man in the right foreground reaches out to the man in the center who leans against the wall.
BJ 02-9
This predominately orange/red painting contains lined texture at various horizontal angles and contains curved vertical yellow parallel lines.
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.
[blue and green waves layered amongst gray and brown frames]
Waves depicted in greens and blues within and without several framing devices of shades of gray and edged in brown.
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.
BM 03-1
This predominately black painting also contains curved and wavy parallel vertical orange lines and lined texture perpendicular to orange lines.
Bridges Into Space
The vertical wall hanging is dyed in strips that hang vertically. Moving horizontally through the piece are large curved shapes and one has a stair step type edge. The vertical strips create the horizontal design.
BS 03-7
Light green painting contains many vertical wavy parallel black lines contrasted with perpendicular lined texture.
Bush Meets Pope
The painting depicts George W. Bush meeting the Pope, Pope Benedict XVI. The colors are solid and flat with black outlines.
BV 03-10
Predominately white painting contains vertical curvy and wavy parallel black and gray lines with horizontal lined texture.
C 97-3
Red, blue, and brown brushstrokes covered by a black mesh consisting of forty-nine openings arranged seven by seven through which the reds, blues and browns appear.
CA 04-2
This mostly white painting includes vertical wavy parallel black and gray lines and lined horizontal texture.
Cain and Abel
This large colorful painting depicts the brothers, Cain and Abel, from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. The story of these brothers is also found in the Quran. The painting consists of many bright colors in flat fields with black lines and outlines. The shepherd brother is in the background herding sheep and in the foreground is the second brother holding a large club and peering over his left shoulder.
Canal
Water rushing into or out of this gradated in light brown tunnel creates a deep recession into space.
Canyon
The almost square cotton velvet artwork consists of ribbon like shapes on edge receding into the distance creating a canyon like imagery. The colors are gradated in browns, purples and blues.
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.
CD 04-5
This predominately yellow oil painting also has many vertical wavy black lines and linear horizontal texture.
CE 04-6
This predominately blue oil painting contains many parallel wavy vertical black lines, a few red and yellow vertical lines as well with horizontal linear texture.
CF 04-7
This predominately blue painting includes vertical black wavy lines and linear texture.
CG 04-8
This predominately white painting also includes vertical multi-colored parallel wavy lines with linear texture. In this photograph of the painting, the studio floor of the artist is visible.
CH 04-9
This predominately red/orange painting has darker vertical wavy parallel lines and linear texture.
CI 04-10
This yellow painting includes curved and wavy lines with perpendicular linear texture.
[circles, rectanges and gridded window shapes create depth]
The artwork is layered with many concentric circles and gridded window images from handmade papers arranged at angles to give illusion of depth. The colors are muted blues and browns with some rusty pinks.
[circles, squares, and horizontal lines floating]
The horizontal predominately blue and muted gray fabric artwork includes shiny circles, squares with horizons, and groups of parallel lines that float through the space of the artwork.
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