About

These drawings and paintings visually integrate private and shared spaces into combined environments, encouraging the viewer to meditate on the relationship between individual lives in relation to global issues. 

In many of the works, the viewer is immersed in a personal space while encountering information that concerns larger social and environmental phenomena beyond one’s power to control (like mass incarceration or species decline). One factor that contributes to contemporary anxiety is living in the information age: we are more aware than ever of what ails our world while often feeling too small and inconsequential to make a significant difference.

Whether the elements of architecture link a bedroom with a prison, or a home with an elephant, connections are designed to provoke questions about the relationships between humans and their disparate fortunes, the relationships between people with other animals, and the loss of innocence that ensues when becoming informed. 

What appears near and what appears in the distance in these paintings interacts dynamically, provoking active conversations between home and what is out in the world. Such works begin by painting from observation on location, acting as seed germs for expanded inventions that marry observed and invented space. 

Unlike the speed of technology in the information age, however, these works are built patiently, eschewing efficiencies. The slow accretion of marks and the detailed intricacy of these paintings and drawings create a technical narrative that shapes interpretation of the iconography towards a meditative posture.  Walls play a metaphoric role, at times dynamic and translucent while at other times oppressively stable and impermeable. Spaces expand or compress, bending in geometrically complex ways, promoting a tension between reality and dreams.