Painter Franklin Faust, an artist who mixes his own paints, once spoke of a dream: to find, as he mixed colors, … a new color. One that had never before been seen. He perhaps has not yet found it—or, if he has, he has not yet published his discovery. Nevertheless, the idea speaks to the dream of all creators, wonderfully inherent in painting, the notion that there is something yet out there—or within—to be discovered, something wondrous, enigmatic, beautiful, mysterious.

“Paintings” presents a series of collections across a range of interests, media, and technique. Explorations of color, an abiding fascination with those things that are fluid—the sea or dreams of the sea—and, as ever, the enduring call of the face … all these figure here and have served at once as subject matter, as wellspring of inspiration, and as source of ineffable nourishment.