Haze, 36x48 inches, oil on canvas. 2020.
To be continued, 48x72 inches, oil on canvas. 2020,
Figure C, 48x72 inches. Oil on canvas, 2020.
Red Rage, 22x24 inches. Oil on canvas. 2021.
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Weeping Tree, 30x48 inches. oil on canvas. 2021.
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Iterations of you, 48x60 inches. Oil on canvas, 2021.
can you feel me now? 48x84 inches, oil on cradled panel, 2021.
figure studies
Artist Statement
My work is exploring the psychological experience of being human. I am using a combination of realism and abstraction--mark making mixed with moments of clarity to create an emotional experience. I am focusing in on ideas such as loneliness, connection to the world, to the people in it and myself. The human form is an essential part of my work. I am depicting both images of myself and others in visceral and expressive ways. The figures in my work are meant invoke a variety of emotions and experiences that range from anxiety, numbness, paranoia, loneliness and isolation, chaos and confusion.
In addition to this, my work is also dependent on the process they take before reaching their end form. They begin how I would start a purely realistic painting and slowly morph into more disruption. The figure will repeatedly get lost and then found again as I go through the process of defining and distorting. The work I create takes several forms before reaching an end result. My paintings and drawings involve moments of clarity through the disruptions showing the inner psychological experience. The process of my work is an integral part of the emotional impact of the work. I am interested in the way psychological experiences can come through a painting or drawing by the color choices and series of strokes and marks that come together to create the figure depicted. The relationship between the highly rendered and the implied intrigues me and is an ongoing area of exploration in my work.
My work is exploring the psychological experience of being human. I am using a combination of realism and abstraction--mark making mixed with moments of clarity to create an emotional experience. I am focusing in on ideas such as loneliness, connection to the world, to the people in it and myself. The human form is an essential part of my work. I am depicting both images of myself and others in visceral and expressive ways. The figures in my work are meant invoke a variety of emotions and experiences that range from anxiety, numbness, paranoia, loneliness and isolation, chaos and confusion.
In addition to this, my work is also dependent on the process they take before reaching their end form. They begin how I would start a purely realistic painting and slowly morph into more disruption. The figure will repeatedly get lost and then found again as I go through the process of defining and distorting. The work I create takes several forms before reaching an end result. My paintings and drawings involve moments of clarity through the disruptions showing the inner psychological experience. The process of my work is an integral part of the emotional impact of the work. I am interested in the way psychological experiences can come through a painting or drawing by the color choices and series of strokes and marks that come together to create the figure depicted. The relationship between the highly rendered and the implied intrigues me and is an ongoing area of exploration in my work.