Original artwork description:

This impasto collection of vigorous oil paint marks resolves itself, in the lower half of the panel, into the ethereal form of an animal, possibly wild dog, possibly baboon, running with abandon left to right across our plane of vision. The animal's face, equipped with two blue eyes, and a reductive red snout, engages the viewer with a penetrating gaze, as if to challenge: "I'm on the move - catch me if you can!" A second spherical shape, also red in hue, but muted, positioned above the main character's head, reads as another animal's subordinately positioned detached head tossed back in a gesture of brotherly resignation, as if allowing and condoning the first to lead the way to freedom. My emphatic message to an imagined viewer, perplexed by the intent of this mass of thick, seemingly unrelated paint strokes, and offered in the implied spirit of the painting's main figure, is simply, "Running, I said!"

Influences, among others, include Max Beckmann, Edvard Munch, Bob Thompson, George McNeil, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Francesco Clemente, R.B. Kitaj and Willem de Kooning.

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Materials used:

Oil paint, gesso, and charcoal

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