Painter from Brooklyn. My current work focuses on bridging New York Process Painting with LA Light and Space artwork. My output is structed around yearly exhibitons. I encourage interested parties to E-mail me for a studio visit.
Aritst Statement as of 12/2/2013
Painting exists as experimental evidence for beauty without preordained form.
I work against pictorial image, constructing each painting as a union between image, index, and object. I deny the ease of external visual association and the temptation to think that by cataloging the signs present in a work of art one has an understanding of the work of art. Going further my paintings create a fiction of arriving effortlessly, of having always been and requiring no explanation for being. Through this reordering of art’s power structure—placing the artwork on the same level as the artist—I leave room for the viewer to claim a position of importance. Painting becomes site; a site where the events of making have taken place and the events of viewing will take place. Artwork, viewer, and artist share an experience inseparable from one another and without hierarchy.
My recent works restructure painting as a single event. Painting is a performance, a contest between my innate desires towards beauty matched against paint’s unimpeachable chemical nature. The result is canvas as sacred space, where formless material beauty reflects softly distorted reality.