a non-profit gallery for the visual and performing arts

2833-A Hathaway Rd., Richmond, VA 23225
in the Stratford Hills Shopping Center

Gallery hours beginning Saturday, January 22, 2022:
Noon to 4pm, Tuesday - Sunday
Free and Open to the Public
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Bolivia Series: Train Skeleton #2
Oil on panel
20 x 36 inches
$1200

Bolivia Series: Train Skeleton #1
Oil on panel
25x28 inches
$1200

Bolivia Series: Train Skeleton #4
Oil on panel
24 x 48 inches
$2100

Bolivia Series: Indian
Oil on panel
19.75 x 35.5 inches
$1200

Bolivia Series: Train Skeleton #5
Oil on panel
26 x 28 inches
$1200

Bolivia Series: Train Skeleton #6
Oil on panel
24 x 36 inches
$1500

I’ve been fascinated by trains as a subject for a number of years now: the geometrics, the surfaces (peeling layers, numbers, letters, graffiti). Plus there is simply a magic about trains that I can’t quite explain. Is it that they move from place to place, that they take us from place to place? Is it that they are part and parcel of a fascinating era in American history? I don’t know. I do know that barns and walls have the same geometrics and the same peeling, layered surfaces, but they don’t hold quite the same fascination. Anyway, when I learned that Bolivia had a train graveyard on its high salt flats where old steam engines have sat and rusted away for well over half a century, I decided I had to go there. And I did. These paintings are part of the resulting series of paintings.