The Calendar Girl Series is a contemporary reinterpretation of the historic pin-up image found in auto body shops through the 1970's. My early paintings for over twenty years were airbrushed lacquers and urethanes on aluminum, techniques better found in repair shops than in artist studios. In those days, women were on the premises only as customers, or on the walls. My ongoing work concerns the complex roll of women in today's culture. Memories of machoism, coupled with the violence in our culture, are elements that contributed to this current series. The Girls are painted in oils, with heat transfers, on full-size police shooting targets, then laminated and hung by grommets on the wall. To complete the 'tongue in cheek' Dada concept, the paintings have been reprinted into a 1998 Calendar that will sell for $19.98.

    The woman of the month is a composite of the complex facets of the personality embodied by that month's events. For example, Miss December who is black, is sitting up smartly, popping up out of her Box, combined with a handicapped Santa that has been in my family for generations. A comment on the artworld is presented by the lushly brushed spruce trees in a technique espoused by the late artist and television instructor Bob Ross. This type of Dada irreverence, humor and juxtaposition of contrasting attitudes is typical of the series. My paintings serve only to enhance woman's stature.

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