I am drawn to Mexican and Guatemalan cultural objects—masks, carved wooden animals, papier mâché figures, and toys—for reasons similar to those of Man Ray and the modernists, who in their case were drawn to African art. On trips to southern Mexico and Guatemala I frequent local mask shops, markets, and bazaars searching for the figures [...]
Accidental Encounter
24 x 18 inches
oil on board
Fallen Angel
24 x 18 inches
oil on board
Artist Statement
I make paintings, usually medium to large, with oil paint, and occasional other materials. Over time, I have developed a personal visual language that I use to communicate and to evoke. My paintings occupy the role of vessel for ideas and emotions: akin to keeping a diary. They are memorials to events [...]
Artist Statement
My own work is largely concerned with the meaning and existence of the self in today’s unstable, fragmented world, specifically how the individual is able to reconcile the external and internal forces that cause us to function in different, often contradictory, roles. Performative in essence, frequently employing role play [...]
Closure
Equilibrium
Identity
Rebirth
Severance
Transformation
All works 60 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas
(NOT) ANOTHER WEDDING IN GOA
I don’t believe that the act of creating artwork can ever be totally isolated [...]
Up to Our Necks, Oil on Panel, 6×6 inches
From Now On, Oil on Panel, 13×13 inches
Losing It, Oil on Panel, 16×20 inches
Artist Statement
Two years ago, I contsructed a 1:87 scale model neighborhood, a fictitious cluster of eleven houses depicted through model railroading miniatures, styrofoam, cardboard, and plastic, [...]
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