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Paintings 2014-2018
I am a painter who was trained as a sculptor. Form and volume have always been important to me and so the treatment of objects in my paintings and drawings, which are for the most part rendered from memory, emphasizes a tactile physicality rather than the play of light on surfaces, what things are and feel like rather than merely what they look like. I often choose imagery that emphasizes that physicality, a bellows camera instead of a DSL , a typewriter instead of a printer, wood grain instead of vinyl, emblematic parts of our received history. With a nod to the energetic distortions and color of mid 20th century cartoons, the recent Little House series is a kind of mad regionalism of tumble down frame houses, cutaway like little stages. Usually too small for their inhabitants, they frame a brightly comic narrative of daily life that is nonetheless one of metaphorical and physical confinement.
Paintings 2012-2014
When I was working on this series I felt a tension between how I depicted or rendered recognizable objects and how I made them part of a more abstract space.
Rather than working from observation or preparatory drawings, I began instead by drawing with charcoal directly on the surface, establishing a sort of scaffold on which to "hang" the imagery. As certain bits-figures objects or abstract forms (that I felt had a likeness to actual objects) presented themselves, I began to develop some of them along with the overall structure.
I was interested in the process of memory, ie. which lines, as I was drawing, seemed to conjure objects and what part of my experience the objects/images referenced - cultural (film, art, cartoons) or daily gesture, or even gesture reinterpreted via a cultural mash up.
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Paintings 2014-2018
I am a painter who was trained as a sculptor. Form and volume have always been important to me and so the treatment of objects in my paintings and drawings, which are for the most part rendered from memory, emphasizes a tactile physicality rather than the play of light on surfaces, what things are and feel like rather than merely what they look like. I often choose imagery that emphasizes that physicality, a bellows camera instead of a DSL , a typewriter instead of a printer, wood grain instead of vinyl, emblematic parts of our received history. With a nod to the energetic distortions and color of mid 20th century cartoons, the recent Little House series is a kind of mad regionalism of tumble down frame houses, cutaway like little stages. Usually too small for their inhabitants, they frame a brightly comic narrative of daily life that is nonetheless one of metaphorical and physical confinement.
Paintings 2012-2014
When I was working on this series I felt a tension between how I depicted or rendered recognizable objects and how I made them part of a more abstract space.
Rather than working from observation or preparatory drawings, I began instead by drawing with charcoal directly on the surface, establishing a sort of scaffold on which to "hang" the imagery. As certain bits-figures objects or abstract forms (that I felt had a likeness to actual objects) presented themselves, I began to develop some of them along with the overall structure.
I was interested in the process of memory, ie. which lines, as I was drawing, seemed to conjure objects and what part of my experience the objects/images referenced - cultural (film, art, cartoons) or daily gesture, or even gesture reinterpreted via a cultural mash up.
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