Call Shore
CALL SHORE
AVA Gallery
Lebanon, NH
April 10 - May 23, 2026
Exhibition notes:
I make work in and about landscapes. Maritime signal flags in recent paintings of mine indicate messages like “man overboard,” “call shore,” or “I am trying to communicate with you.” These flags, resembling twentieth-century abstractions in primary colors, were used to communicate emergency, uncertainty at sea, or navigational intention. Like wind maps, elevation charts, and other informational signage, they suggest ongoing or predictive experiences in the landscape and environment and offer themselves as signals lost to history.
My work emphasizes the physical, symbolic, and optical qualities of paintings; stacked canvases in relief, framing elements, window-like forms, cultural and experiential use of color, signage, and changes in facture and surface. These forms constitute an abstract aesthetic framework that embodies analogs to contemporary visual communication; what is physically real and what is illusion? What reveals and what obscures? I’m interested in the complexity of viewing and understanding landscapes amidst rapidly changing conditions, and as intense cultural mediation frames our experiences of nature and place.
