statement

I paint layered compositions that strive to make sense of the economic and social
history of ’place’.

Deconstructing architecture, suburban spaces, cityscapes, and places of public gathering, I paint layered compositions that strive to make sense of the economic and social history of ‘place.’ Attracted equally to the aesthetics of grandeur, craft, and visual blight, I erase the hierarchy of beauty and address this varied collection of architecture with equal care. A 19th-century gymnasium, dilapidated rowhouses with vinyl siding, or the detritus from a temporary shelter merge and metaphysically communicate on the picture plane. Structures have anachronistic conversations in dream-time. I conjure the past and question systems of living all in the same space. 

Compositions and arrangements of curiosities set the stage for a conversation between landscape, architecture, and object. I use collage systems, digital processes, projection, and drawing aids to render both distorted and accurate graphical representation. My ever-growing collection of historical and personal photographs serve as source material. 

Painting these subjects is an act of compulsion, solving a puzzle, and an attempt at urban planning or un-planning. I question why the world looks the way it does while offering cosmic solutions unruly to the laws of gravity. Sifting through the debris of Americana is an act of soothsaying, a way to quiet anxieties and peer into the future.