Artist Statement
I am interested in finding the place where images fall apart. Our world is practically built with images - moving and still, brightly colored and almost always colored with capitalism. I have always felt the pull of images directing you to: buy, sell, stop, go. Today's imagistic experience is one where photography is ubiquitous and graphic design renders pictures indistinguishable from advertising. My paintings and sculptures fight against this onslaught and seek to make a place where an image - or the story it tells - falls apart and exposes a place in between.
In this latest body of work I have explored techniques of monotype, fresco, image transfer, and distortion. The paintings use a vivid language of bold colors, dissolving imagery and undulating paint surfaces to create a dynamic and mutable picture - something attempting to escape the gravity of its flatness. My pictures are windows and doors to places yet simultaneously spatial and flat. The latest sculptural works seek to step off the wall. As with the paintings I wish to enter them into the ring of endless objects that populate our daily lives. Which similarly vie for your attention with bright colors and other mass produced industrial patina. Like the paintings, upon inspection they borrow those methods (and often the materials themselves) to reshuffle our reality and evoke elements of the body and architectural construction.
Our past, our hopes, and our ideas live in the mind where they collide with the infinite stimulation of the present. My work embodies the many places where our self dissolves and our reality begins. This latest body of work envisages our slippery world - where digital and analog, realism and caricature, fact and feeling, signal and noise collide.