My experience is my production. As a recent homeowner and dedicated do-it-yourselfer, I have been teaching myself yard work. Watering, mowing and weeding and countless other chores devoted to the garden have become my plight, or rather inspiration for subject matter. Vast stretches of dirt have been made green again. Very little of this has to do with nature. Friends and neighbors alike vie for the trophy lawn, participating in a turf war over curb appeal. Nature has become objectified; the backyard a modern day fetish.

Deal Abandoned Pleasures
Save, Conserve, Recycle
Reach Maximum Capacity
Observe Fields
With Pregnant Pause
XX, In the Making of
Take a Break, Know Better
Read Camus
Bend Feathers
Risk Boredom
Identify Burial Patterns

Swing Forward
Fear Indifference, Read Manifestos
Trust Magnetic Poles (get out of the middle)

Preserve a Fading Accent
Move Studios in Winter
Give Benefit to Your Doubt
Differentiate Bass Structures

Watch Sugar Dissolve
An Open End (without punctuation)

I paint in a reductivist manner relying on surface and spatial tensions to convey the content. The imagery in my work is based on childhood memory, appropriated diagrams and reflections of the visual realities of urban decay. My work expresses a continuing dynamic of time, experience, and personal perception.

In this post-modern environment I realize that my ideas may seem antiquated and irrelevant. However, I still believe that abstract painting has the capability to express the complex nature of the human drama we call life.

While painting this series, I was thinking a lot about homemade tattoos. These tattoos are borne out of necessity by someone who is desperate to express themselves, and I think a lot about the scratchy tender aesthetics of this. Even the term “homemade tattoo,” such an unlikely word combination, struck a chord as well for some reason I can’t quite articulate. The process of tattooing consists of tiny dots making an image. Prior to this work, the tiny dots in my paintings were derived from images of embroidery and textiles. Both the tattoo and the embroidery reflect my life

In my current work, Pink Elephants, I combine the sublime with the ridiculous. A constructed reality is presented, with abstract and representational modes forming a fractured narrative dealing with issues of identity. My work confronts social constructs of masculinity, questioning traditional “male” roles through the use of decorative motifs and patterns. Childlike images are viewed through an adult lens. My paintings create visually profuse fields imbued with metaphorical allusions to tradition and culture.

My work is a response to both the natural and built landscape and how we inhabit, interact, and encounter space and form. The intention of my work is to address the theme of expansion and recession, consumption and growth. I am intrigued by how we inhabit and utilize space. My work responds to the built form, partly for its architectural purpose, but quite often I am drawn to such objects for the dialogue that these forms have with one another and with the space in which they inhabit.