In many of my Round Dance paintings, the figures blend into the surrounding color. Their faces can be partly obscured or almost abstract. Here, I brought the figures closer. Their faces are more expressive, and their presence is less hidden.

This summer, a new branch of paintings began to evolve from two of my series, Round Dance and Landscape. For now, I have kept these works within the Round Dance section. There are not yet enough paintings for them to exist as an independent series, but more importantly, I feel that they still belong to the painterly logic of Round Dance, even though their connection to dance is less direct. My visual language within a series is never completely fixed. Change is almost always

​ Dancers #40 Oil on canvas, 84" x 360" 2017 My large-scale painting, Dancers #40 , was featured as an installation at the Eleanor D....