Van Gogh's paintings are great source material that I have mined for much inspiration.revealed here is the alternative reality that I perceived within the image of his portrait of Dr. Gatchet. My objective is to seek and discover a parallel universe ...

This is what I perceived when I looked at Van Gogh's "L'Arlesienne" in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. I am always looking for alternative realities in old-master paintings and I have discovered may in the works of Vincent Van Gogh.

Anthropomorphic edibles are strategically and plausibly juxtaposed to create an alternative reality within a three dimensional illusionary space.

Two saracen warriors are seen brandishing a sickle and a simitar in from of a mosque and the image of Malcolm X emerges while his initials M X are visible on the mavement underfoot.

A close scrutiny of Van Gogh's famous self-portrait, now in the Musamp#65533d'Orsay revealed to me a landscape with two farm houses and a man with a shepherd's crook looking for a lost sheep which the viewer can see has been fleeced and left to die i...

When the missionaries arrived in Africa, the Africans owned the land and the missionaries had the bible. After kneeling for a prayer, the property ownership changed.

Great Zimbabwe stripped of her artefacts, but sheds the legacy of Rhodesia.

This painting is based on the song that was written by a Jewish teacher, Abel Meeropol, from the Bronx, NY, and performed by Billy Holiday. It was entitled "Strange Fruit" and it dealt with the lynching of Black men in the South. Mr. Meeropol said th...

I got this story when I was reading the back of a comic book in 1983. There had been an unsuccessful attempt on President Reagan's life and the story shocked me. It revealed that since 1840, every president elected in a year that ended with a zero ha...

This is my largest painting to date. It measures 9' 2" x 16' 1" It was executed in 1985 after President Reagan announced that Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday would henceforth be a national holiday. This was my tribute to Dr.King. It features Stev...

The windowframe represents the cross and the glass mimics his body with the cherry as his head. The bread and wine are the symbols of his body and blood. What you are looking at is a glass of wine on a windowsill with a piece of bread, supported alof...

You are looking at the crucifixion through the eyes of Christ. I have tried to imagine myself in the body of Christ to try to feel what he experienced as he was hanging on the cross. So what did he see as he was hanging on that cross' He obviously mu...

When the artist paints a portrait, he reveal much of himself. When he paints a self-portrait, he reveals his ubiquitous narcisscism that ihe can nolonger suppress. The artist sees his studio as an locale that incorporates his very being and therefore...

The objective here was to depict multiple figures in one scene using this technique.