Paintings and Drawings

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28_Tromble_Rosie_Memorial_1982large

Rosie Memorial, 1982

01_Tromble_Untitled_Ribosomatic_2005

Untitled (ribosomatic I), 2005

02_Tromble_Untitled_Ribosomatic2_2005

Untitled (ribosomatic II), 2005

03_Tromble_Gratitude_2005

Untitled (gratitude, for Larry), 2005

04_Tromble_Untitled_2000

Untitled, 2000.

05_Tromble_Sea_1992

Sea, 1992.

06_Tromble_Unknown_13_1994

Unknown #13,1994.

07_Tromble_Unknown_17_1994

Unknown #17, 1994..

08_Tromble_Untitled_1993

Unknown #24, 1993.

09_Tromble_Untitled_1999

Untitled, 1999.

10_Tromble_Untitled_1994

Untitled, 1994.

TROMBLEblack

Untitled (Bump 1), 1999.

TROMBLE-green

Untitled (Bump 2), 1999.

TROMBLEmostlyblack

Untitled (Saw/Sun), 1999.

TROMBLEonStick

Untitled, 2001.

TROMBLEloopy

Untitled, 2001.

TROMBLE3knob

Untitled

16_Tromble_Untitled_15_1996

Untitled 15, 1996.

17_Tromble_Untitled_17_1996

Untitled, 1996.

20_Tromble_Rose_6_1995

Rose #6, 1995.

19_Tromble_Rose_12_1995

Rose #12, 1995.

22_Tromble_Untitled_(rose)_1995

Untitled (rose), 1995.

23_Tromble_Unknown_12_1994

Unknown #12, 1994..

24_Tromble_Untitled_1994

Untitled, 1994.

25_Tromble_Dream_Column_1985

Dream Column, 1987.

26_Tromble_Dream_Column_2_1985

Dream Column, 1987.

27_Tromble_Dream_Column_3_1985

Dream Column, 1987.

Every Mark Counts

One afternoon in 1973, the painter Francis Sprout talked with me about Frank Stella’s shaped paintings, introducing me to the idea that a painting was a physical object as well as an image. When I “got” what he was talking about, my passion for painting crystalized into a vocation.

In time “painting-objects” led to “object-spaces” and then to “virtual objects,” but I did start in painting, and as Francis would say, every mark counts. This page gives a glimpse of some of the marks I made that relate, in some way, to my current work.