Crimes of the Art are paintings delving into famous crimes, primarily one. I explore the lives of the female killers, particularly the deceptive, licentious freedom enjoyed even in the face of actual subordination to the males. A "freedom" which leads to the very brink of the gas chamber.

Perhaps their violent and yet ephemeral lives work best with the spontaneity of water-based medium, which gives a journalistic immediacy. The male side of murder is depicted in portraits of two killers, the enormity of their crimes only matched by their fathomless motivation. In one painting, I totally abandon the factual with a depiction of a city in anarchy, hopefully to remain in fantasy.