Title: Woman at Pier
Medium: Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 20" x 30"
Date: 6-4-03

This piece is currently underway, I paint in various stages and in many layers over long periods of time. The final painting will most likely look much different.

Title: 5:59 in a Suburban Alley
Medium: Acrylic, Oil, and Ink on Canvas
Dimension: 24" x 36"
Date: 4-26-03

A study of light moving through a dark field, social comment, based on disposition of choice in suburban economic settings.

Title: Fallen
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 14" x 42"
Date: 3-15-03

This piece depicts a rapid, yet gracefull descent which seemingly has no end. The tension created by the colors and shapes is coupled by the movement of interest, controlled by texture and contrast. Flowing quality has been compared to the way the fins of a Japanese fighting fish, or goldfish might move under water.

Title Third Eye
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 20" x 24"
Date: 1-15-03

This piece consists of various layers and was designed to reveal the layers beneath by literally tearing away at them.

Title: Tug of War
Medium: Acrylic, Ink, and Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 40" x 12"
Date: 9-15-02

This piece represents lifes struggle. Various elements are at constant battle and resolve never seems to occur. The more attention to detail one pays the more it seems to fight the viewer.

Title: Brick Shithouse
Medium: Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 20" x 16"
Date: 6-18-00

This piece has various themes and needs to be rotated in order to see them all, the same is true with all of my more recent paintings. Called the "Brick Shithouse" because it's a tough painting, and I struggled for a long time with it before it finally won.

Title: Trinity
Medium: Oil on Wood
Dimension: 18" x 42", x 3
Date: 9-10-98

This triptych was a gift for my brother, Marlon Varsace, on 3-6-00. It was originally based on a photo of a shadow, cast by an outdoor spiral staircase behind a stadium in Columbus, OH. Now it represents a period of time that spans about 4 years.

Title: The Deliberate Stone
Medium: Oil, Ink, on Canvas
Dimension: 24" x 18"
Date: 6-7-97

Experimentation with dripping india ink and spinning canvas. To date it remains my favorite as it was my first successful jumping point from mundane to inventive abstract.

Title: The R.E.M. Shift
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 24" x 16"
Date: 1-3-94

This piece was going to be another drab, cookie cutter realist painting, until after a few years of leaning it up against a wall, I saw that it was finished. This moment of closure came about after a college buddy and fellow artist Kyle Denlinger (Columbus, OH) pointed out that adding anything to it would actually take away from it. I thought that was a pretty cool way to sum up why I couldn't seem to understand my inability to "complete" it. Basically everything about it that kept me interested was perfectly in place, so I agreed with Kyle, and just rolled with it.

Title: The Plant
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 24" x 18"
Date: 7-20-91

Painted in a small patch of woods near the Rhode Island School of Design, this piece won First Place in the Stamford Art Association Annual Art Competition in 1992. It was also exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art branch at the Champion building in Stamford, CT. Some people believe it is a rare South American fruit bearing plant...but actually the sun came through the woods with such brilliance that it made the leaves it touched turn an unreal shade of chromatic orange, for merely a few minutes.

Title: Cecilia
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 36" x 24"
Date: 3-15-91

This piece was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art branch at the Champion building in Stamford, CT. It is a high schoolers rendition of one of the many angels from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The piece is named after my mother, Cecilia Roman (May 5th, 1948 - December 23rd, 2001).

Title: Open Window
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 30.75" x 24"
Date: 7-28-91

An odd piece, taken from life, in which 2 men are seated on benches that sit back to back. This was my initial break from reality, my influences at the time were mainly Picasso and Braque. Cubism, namely the involvement of movement over time, was my inspiration here, but not my goal. Instead of showing movement here I begin to break up space into rectangular color and size, creating a sense of depth. The "squiggles" in the upper right hand corners of the rectangles remind me of cheesy "Trapper Keeper" airbrush art, I often think of removing them, but then I fail to see any point in it...if anything they represent a short lesson in dexterity, and this piece represents a turning point in my artwork.

Title: Businessman with Coffee
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 18" x 24"
Date: 1-15-91

This painting depicts a businessman drinking coffee. The piece is very angular and rigid, meant to depict the "square" quality of corporate America and all of the power derived from our fuel systems....coffee. This painting was about to be destroyed like so many before it, but was saved by someone who was interested in keeping it. It was salvaged and has won its place in my portfolio as an early work worthy of annotation. Oddly enough it is displayed on its side, not as I show it here for accurate historical reasons. Perhaps it should be named "Sleeping Businessman with Coffee"...

Title: Skull Heads
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 18" x 24"
Date: 12-15-90

This piece is hilarious, I include it because I hope it will make you laugh...it's too funny. Absolutely ridiculous, but that's what I like about it, it makes me laugh every time I see it.

Title: Skater: Self Portrait
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimension: 36" x 24"
Date: 11-15-90

This piece was inspired by a picture of "Sean Sheffy" an urban skateboard legend and balls out, burly skater. I basically just threw my head on the image and it's horribly matched, my neck looks like a tube and I'm all out of proportion. This is just one of those paintings that needs help, but will remain the same. Oddly enough the Japanese print type quality of the piece landed this self portrait in a Congressional Art Exhibition, in Westport, CT.