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8×10 inches, oil on canvas, 2026
This portrait began as a question.
For years, my word portraits relied primarily on value and text to create the image. With Forever Young, I wanted to see what would happen if I brought lessons from my abstract work into the process. Could color carry some of the weight? Could the portrait emerge from something less literal?
Built from the lyrics of Dylan’s Forever Young, the painting moves between abstraction and representation. Layers of color obscure and reveal the image, allowing the portrait to disappear and reemerge throughout the process. At times I found myself painting the likeness. At other times I found myself chasing relationships between color, shape, and surface.
The result exists somewhere between a portrait and an abstraction. Up close, the painting breaks apart into words, marks, and passages of color. Step back, and those elements come together to reveal Dylan’s likeness.
More than a portrait of Bob Dylan, Forever Young became an exploration of transformation—of how text becomes image, how color creates form, and how something can be lost and found again within the same painting.
8×10 inches, oil on canvas, 2026
This portrait began as a question.
For years, my word portraits relied primarily on value and text to create the image. With Forever Young, I wanted to see what would happen if I brought lessons from my abstract work into the process. Could color carry some of the weight? Could the portrait emerge from something less literal?
Built from the lyrics of Dylan’s Forever Young, the painting moves between abstraction and representation. Layers of color obscure and reveal the image, allowing the portrait to disappear and reemerge throughout the process. At times I found myself painting the likeness. At other times I found myself chasing relationships between color, shape, and surface.
The result exists somewhere between a portrait and an abstraction. Up close, the painting breaks apart into words, marks, and passages of color. Step back, and those elements come together to reveal Dylan’s likeness.
More than a portrait of Bob Dylan, Forever Young became an exploration of transformation—of how text becomes image, how color creates form, and how something can be lost and found again within the same painting.