ACCRETIONS
In these compositions I am interested in paint inspired by slowly accumulating organic life forms.
The agents of growth used as building blocks displayed here are represented in three distinct brushstrokes. These three strokes have come to the forefront in my art making for various reasons throughout the course of my artistic development. At this point they manifest themselves as various organs working symbiotically to sustain related growths of paint. I find that these forms have in the nature of their construction an ability communicate a gritty beauty as well as a reference to the visual documentation of a period of time.
NESTS
Much like a bird selects twigs from its environment for the purpose of constructing a nest in which to live, a painter begins a new body of work considering the accumulated history of all of the two dimensional media he or she has studied and digested, in order to seek out and carve a personal place in painting's visual history.

The bird nest has become, for me, a metaphorical vehicle and painting strategy. It's structure and concept allows me to study avenues of variation, and density expressed in the organic accumulation of marks, and gestures as painted marks. I have become enamored with the physical form of the bird nest, its beautiful simplicity and complexity of form, exists as a compact and sturdy dwelling as well as a fragile and ephemeral entity, changing with each new construction.
PLAY THINGS
The pieces displayed in this section come from two separate bodies of work.

The first is a series of self portraits in which I depict myself in a rudimentary bear costume. I am intrigued by the idea that animalistic personas can be used to describe how we desire ourselves to be projected to the rest of our world. These personas can be represented by invisible animal suits that we can choose either to brandish or discard. Independence, tenacity and strength; these are the qualities of the bear. These are qualities the people painted before you could certainly use.

The other paintings shown are from a series of works created to reveal the thinly veiled sexuality inherent in many children's toys. Here ceramic bunnies are turned and viewed from a perspective where their sexuality is exposed; simultaneously revealing a grimy reality while robbing the object of its supposed innocence.
MISC
Transformers also have become for me a bit of a fascination. These mechanisms exist on a physical plane that is forgotten above our heads and out of our normal scope of vision. Often residing in the intersection of a tangle of electrical wires, transformers regulate countless exchanges of the energy that is so integral for the occurrences that make up our daily routines.

The color night portraits shown in this body of work are an attempt both to explore the presence of these machines in our everyday lives and also an exercise where my patterns are simultaneously used to embellish or obscure the details of their surroundings. The guache serves almost to deify the transformers themselves by obstructing pieces of their unappreciative original environments and situating them in a new place where their value is more justly displayed.