BFA Paintings

I officially retired on July 31, 2009. On August 31, I began pursuit of a BFA in painting. In 2013, I completed this endeavor with a show. Here are the paintings.

All the paintings are acrylic and oil on canvas. I textured the canvas with used hand wipes and gesso. Then I laid out the initial design in acrylic and completed the painting in oil. I began Lindy Hop dancing at the school in 2011. I was listening to that music duing each painting and wrote some lyrics and titles on the supports as I worked.

Champagne for Ali Babba, collection of Amanda von Allmen

Wild Man Jam, collection of Tennessee Technical University

Sleepy Garden Walls, collection of the Artist

On Gossamer Wings, Collection of the Artist

Swing Out, see Fragments

Blue Afterglow, See Fragments

Two Little Cats was playin' round in the Sand, Fragments

When that ruby red Sun goes down

Swing Out II, Collection of Hattie Johnson

A Brown and Yellow Basket, See Fragments

To make it more fun, I hired a jazz dance band to play, and several of my friends dropped in to dance. Thanks to Kimberly Winkle for taking pictures. She was my professor for a couple of classes back then. Later on she became head of the art department and teaches woodturning and furniture building workshops in the US and abroad.

A few months before this show my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Shed died about 19 months later. During the interim, I did very little art. Afterward I got more involved with metalcraft and enameling than painting. And DANCING and traveling all over the USAfor taking pictures of t and Europe to dance and visit art museums. Then the pandemic. Afterwards I moved to North Carolina and began a new series of work.