THE CASINO
Works centered around the analogy of life as a casino. A question of participation in games of chance, especially how they relate obviously to money, but also to health and life paths. The pieces depict a world which uses imagery from antiquity, namely classical/neo-classical statues, combined with brightly lit games as a way to draw in players with stimuli and superstition. They are meant to speak, in this way, to flashy false promises of regimes and those in control, and what may be drudged up as a lure for the masses, especially when in need. The metaphors are rife and plenty and led to many sides being explored within this developing collection, calling up phrases like "the house always wins" and "knowing when to hold them and when to fold them," and rethinking how they apply to us individually and collectively.
RECOLOGIES
"We will all watch the spectacle of climate change as ecologies continue to respond to things they've never encountered" was a jarring statement to hear on a radio interview. From that, this idea came to pose myself as a future, traveling, plein air landscape artist, who is trying to capturing these mixing ecosystems in a stiff, traditional, folk art landscape way. Fungi grow bigger than aver where they can now feed off a new river like deer at a stream. Bubbles emerge and escape from deep within an iceberg where they have been hidden for millennia. A coral reef lies bleached and posed in a pastoral brook like a Shakespearean martyr.
IMAGINED PORTRAITURE
Figure paintings done from imagination.
FIELDS
Peace is often depicted as smoothness and simplicity in the absence of texture. Overly textured objects in general are something we distance ourselves from more and more to adhere ourselves to simplicity and cleanliness. For these pieces, I wanted to embrace the ironies within all of that, a 2D painting of a 3D texture, a seemingly neutral rectangle until you get close, apparent repetition to make something ultimately quiet.
PRIVATE COMMISSION WORK
