"Tuck"
Acrylic on Cradled Board
24x32"
November 2007

From The Artist:
I asked myself while working on Serenade and Tuck: why the cloth at the waists? Am I being chicken and censoring myself? Hell no. My paintings are about skin and bodies and the way 2+ figures can mesh, fold and tuck together. The way skin touches skin, color bounces, essences intertwine – but because these are not lone nudes, I see a reason to ask myself why they would be bare naked – together?

This painting fills me with playful electricity. The enlarged hand is purposeful – a recent collector planted a seed with the idea of a Daddy’s large hand being able to hold a child forever, no matter how they grow. This has been in my head for months, and now comes out subconsciously in Tuck. Thanks, Matt.

Another painting on deep-cradled gessobord (see lower left) with unstained 2" Oak edges.