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Stars and Stripes

Where American memory, the flag, and Aspen light are held in one field of paint

America 250 — Stars & Stripes is a patriotic painting cycle developed in Aspen, Colorado at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, where mountain landscape, studio practice, and national memory converged.

Through the image of the flag, the series explores America, family inheritance, and the artist's father's history, holding private memory and public symbol in the same visual field.

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Stars & Stripes

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A flag remembered through family history, national memory, and the painterly weather of the American West.

In Stars & Stripes, the American flag is not treated as a fixed emblem. It is scraped, rebuilt, and re-seen until it begins to hold both intimacy and scale, carrying the emotional texture of belonging, inheritance, and question.

Developed in Aspen and timed to the July 4th moment, the work lets the flag behave like landscape as much as icon. The result is a painting that feels at once civic and personal, with the available work placed through Wendell Gallery in West Palm Beach.

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On Stars & Stripes

America 250 — Stars & Stripes began in Aspen, Colorado at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, where mountain light, distance, and the ritual weight of the flag gave the work its first structure.

This series turns toward America through inheritance as much as symbol, tracing the artist's father's family history through stripes, stars, abrasion, and repetition. The flag becomes both image and vessel: public, personal, and still unfinished.

Timed to the July 4th season as the country approaches its 250th anniversary, the work holds patriotism, memory, and complexity in the same frame. The painting is currently available through Wendell Gallery in West Palm Beach.