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Artist Comment

Expressing isolation, alienation, guilt, humor, beauty/ugliness, and the human condition my work reflects the country and the world we live in. For structure I take personal subject matter and I paint, draw, scrape, rub and paint some more in an unconscious, gestural approach. I overlap multiple images to create new ones and add non drawing materials for texture. Much of the time I work on a wet physical surface.  My medium is a mix of latex, acrylic and oil paint, pastels, charcoal, graphite, ink, sand, sawdust and I work on yupo paper, reclaimed wood, Styrofoam, various artist boards and canvas.

Creative process and concept are linked. I start with a basic composition, but I let each piece flow intuitively from that point, allowing what is happening on the surface to dictate the direction each work will go. There’s no preconceived notion of a final destination. I work on several different series concurrently which creates some crossover in application choices: color, shape, line, a certain painting technique, use of a pattern, scraping back into painted areas, and addition of texture. When I say process and concept are linked, it’s from the standpoint that the process produces the overall visual content of my art and the history of a given work. 

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