Gallery

Paintings

I have always appreciated portraiture for the intimacy I share with my subjects. I would be nothing without the people that surround me. Each and every one has their quirks and their forms of self-expression; it is for these reasons that I have so much love for them. Painting these individuals from life became a labor of love, both for me and for them. I love the conversations that arise, the mutual understanding of what we are doing, the serenity that they feel, that I feel.

While my recent work has not necessarily been rooted in portraiture, I’ve found figurative elements within the less representational work that I have created. Forms bend akin to a body at rest; there is evidence of the figure in a stain or a relief.

Video Installation

My video and projection work has also surrounded the figure, yet involves obscuring what is portrayed by overlaying media on the projection. By using my own body as part of the canvas, my past and my present float between one another, much like memories infiltrate and confuse our lives. They appear and they disappear, they obstruct and they corral the mind.

Sculpture

When I began to work with metal, I became infatuated with the way steel is shaped by the environment that it exists in. I found rust to be a tool, a medium, and a protection for the work that I had created. It demonstrates decay, but it is also beautiful.

In a series titled Keeping My Hands Busy, I created two towers out of steel. One stood about 11 feet tall, and the other four feet. The latter, my first tower, began out of a period of melancholy; I desperately needed something to take my mind off of the goings-on in my life. I developed a process of creating these octagons out of sheet metal. I would plasma cut half inch thick strips of varying lengths, and tack them together in an almost assembly like fashion. It was meditative and simple. I could immerse myself in my work for hours on end and allow the rest to slip away.

Figures

Explorations of human form in charcoal and graphite.

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