This is a year of continued thoughts, physical emergence, and unceasing movement.
I started several charcoal drawings at the beginning of 2021 with the understanding that I was advancing the energy I found in my familiar place, My City: Philadelphia.
Now, as things pick up, I am creating formal elements like brushstrokes that are both place, purpose, and speed, colors that are empirical and evocative, and lines that carry the viewer and me far away with attitude.
What were angles are now projections. Fast lines spread out and follow paths to the ends of thought, heights, and depth. This is my personal perspective. As I wrote:
I Am Living at the Speed of Life on all Fronts.
Much of what I learned, I have held close, kept with me for a long time.
Some of what I know, I have seen with my own eyes.
Most of what I have seen is still inside me.
To wit: refresh the pictures, the statues, the trees, the towering vaults, the heroes.
The most current picture of them I have, and carry it all in my heart.
Artist Biography
2018 Cerulean Arts Collective, Member
Education
1979 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA MA, Graduate Grant
1973 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA BFA, Bocour Prize for Painting
Awards & Honors
1979 Graduate Grant, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1973 Bocour Prize for Painting, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Bibliography
Publications
2015 Yates, Ernest, En Route from the Capital, Poems of Philadelphia, Xlibris Corporation (cover art)
Collections
Works included in many private collections
Professional Experience
2009-2010 Lecturer, European and American Art Survey Course, Haverford Township Evening School, Haverford, PA
Exhibitions
Solo
2016 New Landscapes, High Point Café, Philadelphia, PA
2014 New Work, Merion Art, Ardmore, PA
Three-person
2014 Philadelphia Artists, CultureWorks of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2017 154th Small Painting Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA Juried Exhibition
2015 New Mexico Paintings, Morgan Gallery, Corrales, NM
New Work, Heron Crest Studios, Aston, PA
2014 Large Format Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Artists’ Work, Heron Crest Studios, Aston, PA
2013 Large Format Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Artists’ Work, Heron Crest Studios, Aston, PA
2012 Artists’ Work, Heron Crest Studios, Aston, PA
Artspace, Lansdowne, PA
1975 More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1974 Artists Choose Artists, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA