Creek in Spearfish
2026
Acrylic on linen
36 × 24 in.
Creek in Spearfish begins with the memory of a small stream in the Black Hills, but the remembered landscape becomes increasingly unstable as the painting develops. Trees, water, banks, and vegetation are broken apart and rebuilt through overlapping fields of color, drawn lines, scraped passages, and heavy accumulations of paint.
Rather than describing the creek as a fixed view, the painting treats the landscape as something experienced over time—glimpsed, remembered, revised, and invented. The place remains present, but as a kind of underlying structure through which the painting finds its own terrain.
Creek in Spearfish
2026
Acrylic on linen
36 × 24 in.
Creek in Spearfish begins with the memory of a small stream in the Black Hills, but the remembered landscape becomes increasingly unstable as the painting develops. Trees, water, banks, and vegetation are broken apart and rebuilt through overlapping fields of color, drawn lines, scraped passages, and heavy accumulations of paint.
Rather than describing the creek as a fixed view, the painting treats the landscape as something experienced over time—glimpsed, remembered, revised, and invented. The place remains present, but as a kind of underlying structure through which the painting finds its own terrain.