Artist Statement
In many compositions I explore the oddities of individual identities by trying to visually unravel other people’s fantasies, dreams, obsessions, and actual events that fuel their inexplicable fires of existence. These paintings maintain the notion that we communicate best through our oddities, rather than how we are alike. In other works I look at more archetypal mysteries and the vast possibilities, desires, and necessities bound up in collective human beingness. All are positioned in the psychic realm rather than real waking life.
A recent series of paintings reflect on issues of the body and cloth, body/self, boundaries and limits, specifically bodies within shroud-like cloth. I imagine on canvas the limbo souls reside in, held in the deepness of individual selfhoods, yet barely particularized through the veils.
Another group of work is for the first time in my career without the figure. It alludes nonetheless to the psychic realm of humanity. In these drawings and paintings folds, knots, and entangling episodes, being tied up within and without, occur in cloth and rope, analogous to transformative events that transpire in the soul, the spirit, and the body. Order aligns with disorder, dark stirs up light, restriction produces escape, and fabricated processes unravel to free flowing delight.
A recent series of paintings reflect on issues of the body and cloth, body/self, boundaries and limits, specifically bodies within shroud-like cloth. I imagine on canvas the limbo souls reside in, held in the deepness of individual selfhoods, yet barely particularized through the veils.
Another group of work is for the first time in my career without the figure. It alludes nonetheless to the psychic realm of humanity. In these drawings and paintings folds, knots, and entangling episodes, being tied up within and without, occur in cloth and rope, analogous to transformative events that transpire in the soul, the spirit, and the body. Order aligns with disorder, dark stirs up light, restriction produces escape, and fabricated processes unravel to free flowing delight.
