ARTIST STATEMENT

When optics influence policies and societal norms, socialization becomes a curated spectacle on digital platforms, creating a virtual utopia devoid of flaw and error, a superficial visual experience bloated with over-saturation of "clean" imagery, yielding nothing more substantive in our culture than the colloquial "good vibes," often rendering our humanity sterile and characterless. 

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My practice, therefore, has evolved from early-career Foundational Abstraction, primarily of aesthetic pleasure and cleanliness, to thematic and narrative-driven Conceptualism and Relational Aesthetics, endogenous expressions of raw penmanship antithetical to the “instagramification” of fine art and contemporary visual media.   

 

At present, I make mixed media paintings, mostly with acrylics and pastels, using idiosyncratic iconography and child-like imagery in interpreting modes of contemporary human socialization and shifts in modern identity within various contexts: Socio-economic relationships; globalism; the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic; interpersonal relationships; social technology; and modern socio-political dogma.