Paintings
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 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. Check out my artist statement and biography here.
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