Geometric Paintings — Hard Edges and Soft

My favorite class in high school was Geometry. It enabled me to draw and create, though I didn’t quite understand that at the time. It just interested me. The whole study was also completely rational. It provided a world of exploration where one could assemble pieces in a completely rational, sensible way. It became a kind of grounding for me with language later in life and, certainly, in my Clinical Psych practice where it was essential to track how words might have histories but people had meanings. That distinction matters - as much now in 2025 as it did then.

In the pieces below, I’m assembling and juxtaposing figures mostly built from hard edges but, in some of them, the less meticulous play of spattered soft forms makes the work more interesting to me.

It all seems peaceful to me. Except when it isn’t.