The Lab on Santa Fe Art Gallery, 840 N Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO

I Sing the Body Electric pays homage to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Artists investigate what art means in relation to Transcendentalism and Nature and how spirituality includes everything that life is, the good, the bad and the ugly as well as the thin boundary between our exterior and interior world.

Sack of Muck is about the interface between the body and the spirit.

Sack of Muck is a large, red painting that has immediate visceral impact. Red is a color that evokes passion or warns of danger, and we react to red with increased blood pressure, breathing and metabolism. The color field of the painting is rich with many layers of paint - there is an earlier abstract expressionist style painting showing through under the color field - and demands the viewers close attention. Seen almost secondarily is the text, turned on its side and not immediately literal, the letters of which organize the space on the flat plane. If the viewer decides to read, the philosophical content of the piece begins to reveal itself. However, the content of the message is quite outside our current cultural norms or understanding. It pulls the viewer off balance, demanding they rethink their relationship with their own and other's bodies as an avenue to finding the spirit!

Sack of Muck, Acrylic on Canvas, 72 x 72 inches