Art
I'd like you to read these paintings as you would a map, or a diagram in a science textbook, or as a doctor would inspect an x-ray of a leg or MRI. Searching for a specific sign, a marker, fracture, an answer in these reference materials for fleeting moments of calamity — measured, weighed, translated, and codified. I want to hold onto these moments of change, of wonder, and fear. Creating images that are instantaneously unnerving and awesome, dangerous yet disarmed, like tamed circus tigers.
I am inspired by a broad range of historical sources including maps, diagrams, pinball machines, and calligraphy. As a process-oriented abstract painter, I embrace a systematic exploration of chaos and control. My work harmonizes an array of disparate themes: esoteric expressions of cloud chambers, the didactic lines of weather maps, cartography's precise geometry, the random behavior of metal balls inside pinball machines, the unseen yet potent influences that shape our universe, and cartoon explosions. At the heart of it, my paintings harken back to the cause-and-effect dynamics of the cosmos while resembling a fireworks display unpredictably propelling energy into the night sky.
An Event Interpretable Only Through Relative Proximity and Misunderstanding: Number 77
The Sudden Arrival of Conditions More Brilliant Than Generally Advised: Number 74
Hidden Transparencies Through Which Strange Landscapes Appeared Instantaneously: Number 76
The Ruined Fresco Depicted the World We Have Set to the Side of the One We Have Taken: Number 73
Rapidly Expanding the Permissible Boundaries of Hazard: Number 75
The Magician’s Assistant Vacancy Could Be Taken Either Way, Dependent Upon Proximity: Number 72
An Unexpected Departure of Objects Formerly in Mutual Orbit: Number 71
Another Moment When the Sky Disobeyed Established Rules of Perspective: Number 70
The Graceful Speed of a Mistake Too Significant to Undo: Number 69
The Noise Made by a Sequence of Improbable Coincidences: Number 68
It Wasn’t Just the Loudness, It Was the Shape of the Unconscious Force, Dark and Ruinous: Number 67
The Lengthy Chemical Procedure Had Repeatedly Failed To Provide an Unambiguous Result: Number 66
Mistaking It for Gunshots, Several Among the Clientele Drew Their Pistols To Collaborate in the Commotion: Number 65
Secret Tunnels, Other Arks of Safety, and Secure Routes Out of Town: Number 63
Unconnected Skirmishing Followed by Blasts Heard Up and Down the Valley: Number 62
The Moonlit Panorama of Passing Desert Remained Unmarred by the Realm of the Counterfactual: Number 61
Running Back Into a Predictable Imbrication Along a Linear Continuum of Points Invisible: Number 60
The Only Pieces That Survived the Blast Against Which Could Be Seen the Glow of the Fair: Number 59
Surviving the Ordeal Though Not Certain It Had Really Occurred: Number 58
Full of Perilous Grades, Narrow Escapes, and a Steep Gabling of Many Angles: Number 57
The Length of a Fuse Is Rarely Ever Known or Appreciated: Number 56
Probably Something Deeply Ulterior In Either God’s Mercy or Dumb Luck: Number 41
Stars Revealed, Passed, and Were Dissolved in Dawn as Searchlights Stroked the Sky: Number 48
The Setting in Which All of These Events Took Place: Number 47
A Slowed Smudge of Uncertainty, Luminously Ornamental and Beautifully Swept: Number 54
Rodeos and Marching Bands as Unstoppable as a Spring Thaw: Number 55
Things Either Started This Way or Will End This Way: Number 13
Study for the Setting in Which All of These Events Took Place: Number 46
Notes on an Amenable Catastrophe: Number 56
Unfinished Business First Finely Vaporized Then Becoming Whole Again: Number 49
An All-But-Unwatchable Natural or Man-Made Instant Plunging Into Darkness: Number 51
Unfettered by the Minor Laws of Ballistics: Number 53
An Almost Manageable Cataclysm: Number 44
A Denial of Inevitability Opening Out From Behind the Divan: Number 43
Fancy-schmancy and Unrestricted by the Demands of Gravity: Number 52
Another Falderal Discovered Inside the Nearby Sports Complex: Number 42
A Wild Exclusion From the Primly Orthogonal Floor-Plans of an Unpleasant Outcome: Number 40
Everywhere an Expanding of Possibility in an Appropriately Apocalyptic Shade: Number 39
Ever More Extravagant Disasters Resulting in an Unloosening of Fate: Number 38
The Smell of Distant Fireworks or Earthquake Weather: Number 17
Time, no changes or Amateur Footwork: Number 15
A Seltzer Bottle About to Be Deployed in Some Vaudeville Interlude as All Hell Broke Loose Topside: Number 37
A Variable Dependent on Something Undetectable From the All-But-Inaccessible Stretches of the Waste Country Beyond the Oasis
A Great Blossoming of Disintegration Reaching Now and Then to a Quite Unendurable Brisance: Number 35
A Whole Ensemble of Hesitancies Lost Back Down the Trail After a Heavenwide Blast of Light: Number 34
The Moment Following an Overage of Mishap: Number 45
A Message Sent Too Fast For Any But Angels of Destruction to Read: Number 33
Therapeutic Rays Not Yet Assigned Letters of Any Alphabet, Though Known and Discussed: Number 32
An Exhilarated Denial of Gravity Angelically Revealed in Early Sunbeams Through the Stained-glass Dome Overhead: Number 31
The Opposite of Atonement, or Folding and Pleating Ever Inwardly Upon Themselves: Number 30
The Instant In Which a Hitherto-unimagined Quantity of Energy Had Entered The Equations of History: Number 29
Stars Wheeling Unread Above the Roofless Fortune-teller’s Booth: Number 28
Little Remained That Had Not Succumbed to Wind, Gravity, and an Excruciating Departure of Faith: Number 27
Judging The Distance Across The Crevasse: Number 26
Unavoidably Suggesting Disguise: Number 24
Rewired Randomness, Deliberately Simulated: Number 23
Constellated Above in the Nightwide Remotenesses of Light: Number 22
Spinning in eddies from the updraft: Number 21
Rainy Indifference, Concealed Tranquillities and False Passage: Number 20
Calculating Angles of Enfilade or On the Advice of Counsel: Number 16